Vowels 3 – r-colored vowels – definition and examples and explications
Vowels 3 – Diphthongs – definition and examples and explications
Before you tackle this lesson, take some time to do a bit of research. See what you can find out about varieties of English spoken in North America. This needn’t be a vast amount of in-depth research, just spend about 20-30 minutes learning about what...
Connected Speech: Elision
Of all the features of English pronunciation, connected speech, or the flow between words, is the most subtle and one of the least well described. Elision is a specific part of connected speech, the one which is responsible for all the sounds dropped and most of the...
Pronunciation exercises: Aspiration and Endings
Along with voice, aspiration is one of the most obvious features of English consonants. You can learn more about consonant aspiration and how it affects the sounds around it in the presentation post. Here are a few exercises to see what you already know or have...
Pronouncing Vowels 2: back vowels
Vowels are less easily distinguished than consonants because there are no distinct boundaries between them as there are for consonants, and so they are usually described according to how they sound in relation to one another. Unfortunately, any phoneme can still vary...Gefördert vom
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