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English vowels are - A, E, I, O, U
These are all voiced sounds.
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Front vowels are: i, ɪ, eɪ, ɛ, æ
Ex - eat, hit, make, met, math
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Level - Beginner-Intermediate
Front vowels are - i, ɪ, eɪ, ɛ, æ
Long sounds - i, eɪ
Short sounds - ɪ, ɛ, æ
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Level - Beginner-Intermediate
Back Vowels - u, ʊ, oʊ, ɔ
Ex - boot, put, boat, ball
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Long Sounds - u, oʊ
Short Sounds - ʊ, ɔ
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Central Vowels - ə, ɝ
Remember the letter - r - can be a consonant (run) or a vowel (fur)
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Diphthongs - aɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ
Ex - fly, now, boy
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These are words who have one small pronunciation difference.
Ex - teach : touch, reach : rich
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Level - Beginner-Intermediate Learn why saying and not saying S is very important and a big mistake
Be careful of singular vs. plural.
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Level - Beginner-Intermediate
Be careful how you pronounce -ed in the simple past
Example D sound - opened, closed, fired, turned, wanted
Example T sound - walked, talked, passed, asked, looked
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Level - Beginner-Intermediate Learn the differences between - s, t, d, and th.
Stick out your tongue when say the TH sound!
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Level - Beginner-Intermediate
Tongue Twister - I walk to work with a worker with a walker.
American English - sometimes T is pronounced as a D.
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Level - Beginner-Intermediate
Learn how to pronounced the R sound in words.
Many words have this - soldier, mixer, keeper, browser, cursor
Also, learn how to say THE!
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Level - Intermediate
Your accent is from your own language
Learn how to get rid of your foreign accent!
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Level - Intermediate
Voicing and Consonant Pairs
S and Z sounds
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Level - Intermediate
American TH sounds
Voiced TH - ð
Unvoiced TH - θ
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Level - Intermediate
Voiced - V
Unvoiced - F
Voiced SH - ʒ
Unvoiced SH - ʃ
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Level - Intermediate
Words begin with an L - love, laptop, leap
Words with L in the middle - follow, yellow, willow
Words that end with an L or Ls - tall, pole, file
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Level - Intermediate
Words endings are very important in English.
non-Native Speaker - I don ha any foo!
Native Speaker - Do you mean, you don't have any food?
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Level - Intermediate
CH - tʒ - chair, watcher, match
J - dʒ - jail, major, badge
H - hello, mohawk
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Level - Intermediate
English has 5 vowels - A E I O U
There are about 15 vowel sounds.
Some vowel sounds have up to 10 different spellings!
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Level - Intermediate
Learn the difference between A and O.
Learn how to say all 50 of the American states!
Also, learn about the hidden W in English!
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Level - Intermediate
OO - u - poop, lewd, rude
UH - ʊ - put, push, took
EH - E - fed, elephant, head
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Level - Intermediate
A - æa - fat, batter, attack
au - aʊ - cow, vow, wow
AH - ɑ - product, robber, coma
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Level - Intermediate
Learn some Tongue Twisters!
Thinking thoughts that threaten those that think those thoughts are not.
THE HARDEST - The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick.
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Level - Intermediate
Phrase Reductions - What do you want to do? -> Whaddya wanna do?
Intonations - what do YOU want to do? vs. what do you WANT to do? vs. what to you want to DO?
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Level - Intermediate
Review what you have learned!
Practice the consonants, vowels, intonations, phrase reductions, and word endings!
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Level - Intermediate
Review more the consonants, vowels, intonations, phrase reductions and word endings!
You should be able to sound American now!
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Level - Intermediate
Learn the 50 most mispronounced words in English!
Master these, and you will be awesome!
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Level - Beginner
Learn about singular and plural pronunciation of the words-
Woman | Women
Man | Men
Child | Children
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Learn the difference between written and spoken English!
American English Pronuncation - kæn, kænt
British English Pronunciation - kɔn, kɔnt
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Learn how to practice between these similiar sounds
B - bat, bet, best, Barry
V - vat, vet, vest, very
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Learn the alphabet as an adult!
Vowels - A E I O U
Consonants - B C D F G H J K L M N P Q R S T V W X Y Z
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Be careful which syllable you stress!
-13 - thirTEEN | 30 - THIRty
-14 - fourTEEN | 40 - FOURty
-15 - fifTEEN | 50 - FIFty
-16 - sixTEEn | 60 - SIXty
-17 - SevenTEEN | 70 - SEVENty
-18 - eighTEEN | 80 - EIGHty
-19 - ninTEEN | 90 NINEty *Listening & Reading Comprehension, Speaking Practice

Level - Beginner
Learn how to practice between these similiar sounds
-F - fat, family, fair
-V - very, vegetable, vehicle
Practice these tongue twisters-
-Veronica the very vivacious vegan visited Val Von Ving Ving, the vegetarian vacationing in Vapid Valley.
-Foul Frank farted after feeding on five flasks of refried beans.
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Practice pronouncing the sounds i and ɪ
-Beat - Bit
-Heat - Hit
-Sheep - Ship
-Seat - Sit
-Feet - Fit
-Heel - Hill
-Reach - Rich
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Learn the difference in pronouncing the English letters J and Y
-J j - jello, joke, jet, Jess
-Y y - yellow, yolk, yet, yes
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Learn the difference in pronouncing the English letters P and B
-P - police, paper, picture, play, happy
-B - bay, box, baby, bank, blue
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Learn the difference in pronouncing the English letters R and L
-R - rice, right, red, river, arrive
-L - lice, light, lead, liver, alive
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Learn the difference in pronouncing the English sounds TH and S
-TH - thin, thick, think, thing, through/threw
-S - sin, sick, sink, sing, sue
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Learn the difference in pronouncing the English sounds S and SH
-Sea - She
-Sip - Ship
-Sell - Shell
-Seat - Sheet
-Suit - Shoot
-Class - Clash
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Learn how to say the sound ʃyən-
-destination
-presentation
-population
-education
-mission
-session
-action
-nation
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-Main - Men
-Pain - Pen
-Walk - Work
-Farther - Further
In American English, T sometimes becomes a D sound-
-Water
-Bottle
-Thirty
-Twenty
-Butter
-Better
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The phonetic symbols are æ and ɛ
-Man | Men
-Land | Lend
-Band | Bend
-Tan | Ten
-Anne | Emma
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Level - Advanced
Learn pronunciation with poetry!
Just compare heaart, beard and heard
Dies and diet, lord and word
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter, how it's written)
With such words as plaque and fjord
But be careful how you speak
Say break, and steak, but bleak and streak
CLove, oven, how and low
Script, receipt, show, poem and toe
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Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - your.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - have.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - what.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - all.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - from.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - are.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - that.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - He.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - And.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - The.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - His.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Not.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Many.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Look.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Which.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Like.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - When.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - These.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Can.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Will.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Time.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - This.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Number.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Write.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Water.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - First.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Oil.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Call.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Now.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Long.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Newbie
Learn how to properly pronounce the word - Down.
Also become familiar with IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
American English

Level - Beginner
Learn how to pronounce the sounds R and L.
R - kissing, but no touching
L - touching, but no kissing