American English Pronunciation Podcast

#150: Common spellings and non-phonetic words

How do we choose which spellings are common and which ...

How do we choose which spellings are common and which words are non-phonetic?

#149: Practicing the w and v sounds

/w/ and /v/ in paragraph practice.

#148: More th sounds practice

Quickly saying the th sounds in paragraphs.

#147: The -ious suffix

All of those vowels and two different pronunciations make this ...

All of those vowels and two different pronunciations make this a tricky suffix.

#146: Happy "New" Year!

"New" in American and British English.

#145: A,E,I,O,U and sometimes y

Why is y sometimes a vowel?

#144: -ed ending exceptions

Some -ed adjectives gain a syllable.

#143: Don't over-pronounce sounds

Exaggeration is not authentic speech.

#142: The syllabic l

Don't add a vowel sound!

#141: We "recently" changed our t sound lesson

Updates to the alternative t sound patterns