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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…
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 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…
You say "Can I have a sheet of paper?" and your colleague hears a very different word. You order a beer and get a strange look. Moments like these come from one of the most underestimated areas of…
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