In this “Functional Phrases” lesson you will practice phrases for giving service to someone, like at a restaurant. Here are the phrases you will practice: Welcome. May I help you? Would you like to order? For here or to go? Smoking or non-smoking? Please wait. Thank you. You’re welcome Please come again! Download iPod/PSP compatible

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In this “Functional Phrases” lesson you will practice how to introduce someone else. Here are the phrases you will practice: Who is this? This is Jane. Do you know Fred? Have you met Jill? She is my boss. He is my friend. They are my coworkers. “Fred” is a man’s name. “Jane” and “Jill” are women’s names. Download iPod/PSP compatible

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In this “Functional Phrases” lesson you will practice how to ask someone’s name and give your name. Here are the phrases you will practice: What is your name? My name is John. What should I call you? Please call me Ann. I’m Bill. What is her name? Her name is Sue. “John” and “Bill” are common men’s names, “Ann” and “Sue” are women’s [...]

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In this lesson you will learn two new sounds, the hard ‘G’ and ‘K’. The ‘K’ sound is made by both the letter ‘K’ and the letter ‘C’. The letter ‘G’ makes two different sounds, the hard ‘G’ and the soft ‘G’. The soft ‘G’ sound is like the ‘J’ sound. This lesson we will [...]

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In the first two “Functional Phrases” lessons you practiced greetings. This lesson you will practice what to say when you leave. There are both polite and casual things to say. Goodbye. Goodnight. Farewell. Take care. See you tomorrow. See you later. See ya! “Farewell” is very final sounding, when maybe you won’t meet again. “See ya!” is very casual and friendly. Download iPod/PSP compatible

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In this “Functional Phrases” lesson, you will practice how to respond to the greetings in lesson 1. For example, in lesson 1 you learned “How are you?” There are many different ways to reply: I’m fine, thank you. Fine, thanks. And you? I’m doing fine. How about you? I’m O.K. I’m alright. I’m doing O.K. Eh, not bad. The first one is the [...]

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In this lesson you will learn two new sounds, ‘L’ and ‘R’. These two sounds are very difficult for some people to hear and say. This is especially true for speakers of languages like Japanese and Chinese. It is very important for you to be good at these two sounds. Very many English words are [...]

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“Functional Phrases” is a new UGoEigo ESL podcast. Each lesson will teach you to pronounce a few useful phrases in English. Like in the “English Sounds” lessons, watch my mouth and say the words with me. These lessons will be shorter and hopefully more frequent… This lesson is about greetings. The phrases used are: “Good morning.” - [...]

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In this lesson you will practice saying the “H” and “Y” sounds. Many of the words in this lesson are words for sounds — like “yow” or “ah” or “yay”. They might be hard to find in dictionaries. The transcript for this lesson is available here. Download iPod/PSP compatible

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In this podcast lesson you will learn how to make the “H” and “W” sounds. “How” and “wow” are examples of words from this lesson. With practice you can improve your pronunciation, so keep working on it! The transcript for this lesson is available here. Download iPod/PSP compatible

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This lesson will help ESL students pronounce and learn to hear the sounds of the letters ‘F’ and ‘H’. You will practice words like “Fun” and “Hope” and “Fizz” and “His”. There are extra words to give you more practice. The transcript for this lesson can be found here Download iPod/PSP compatible

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(Sorry this lesson is late. It was a little harder to make. It is also a little longer.) This lesson we will practice all the sounds you have learned so far. To speak well, you must be able to speak quickly and smoothly. So we will practice “tongue-twisters”. Don’t worry if they’re hard. They are hard [...]

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In lesson 1 you learned to pronounce ‘B’ and in lesson 2 you learned to pronounce ‘V’. Some people have trouble with the difference between ‘B’ and ‘V’ too. So in this lesson we will practice saying and hearing the difference between ‘B’ and ‘V’. You can get the transcript for this lesson here. Download iPod/PSP compatible

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The second lesson introduces the sounds of two more letters in English: F and V. In it we practice similar words like “fan” and “van”, “safe” and “save” as well as “leaf” and “leave”. Both sounds start by touching your upper teeth to your lower lip. But what you do next is different for each [...]

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In this first lesson, I will teach you how to say the sounds for the letters ‘B’ and ‘P’. These are sometimes a little hard for some people. Many of my students have trouble with words like “bear” and “pear” and think they sound the same. If you have the same problem, this lesson should [...]

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