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Say feel , people and milk out loud. If they come out as fee , peepo and miwk , or if they sound oddly short and clipped, the problem is almost always the same letter. This guide shows you how to…
Ask an American to say water , button and internet slowly, then at normal speed, and you will hear three completely different T sounds, none of which match the crisp T in a dictionary recording…
Say very well out loud. If it comes out as wery vell , bery well or fery well , you are in good company: V and W are two of the most commonly swapped consonants in English. This guide shows you…
English tongue twisters look like a party game, but they are one of the most efficient pronunciation drills you can do alone. A good twister packs two similar sounds into a few seconds and forces…
You ask for rice and the waiter hears lice . You say I work there and it comes out as I walk there . If you are trying to learn how to pronounce R in English , you have probably noticed that the…
You know the word island . You have read it a hundred times. Then one day you say "iz-land" in a meeting and somebody gently repeats it back as "EYE-lund". That small sting is the reason silent…
You know the grammar: one cat, two cats; I work, she works. Yet in speech the ending often disappears, comes out as the wrong sound, or turns into a heavy extra syllable that nobody expects. -S and…
If you have ever said "I tink so" or "zis is my bruzzer" and watched a listener pause for half a second, you already know the problem. Learning how to pronounce the TH sound in English is one of the…
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