American English Pronunciation Podcast
Summary: The American English Pronunciation Podcast offers weekly lessons covering the most common and difficult English pronunciation issues. Learn the General American Accent English speaking techniques and become better understood. Level: Intermediate to Advanced ESL/ELL students
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Podcasts:
A listener request for an explanation of less-common patterns
long e /i/, short a /æ/, and short o /ɑ/
Highly fluent speakers understand this suffix!
If you're going to swear, you'd better be able to pronounce short vowel sounds!
Practice sets like: pat, pet, pit, pot, putt
/skr/ /spl/ /spr/ and /str/
sh, th, tch, dge, gn, mb, and more!
Is it /k/ as in 'accuse' or /ks/ as in 'succeed'
Even words we don't use that often still matter
Practice this difficult sound in context
It takes an advanced lesson to handle a word like "Seattle"
Main stress, secondary stress, and schwa, all in one word
And when can "used to" be substituted by "would"?
When does (and doesn't) the g sound follow the ng sound?
From the lips to the throat and the nose down to the vocal cords
