American English Pronunciation Podcast

189: Linking magic!

Linking same and similar stop sounds increases spoken fluency.

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188: Heteronyms: 'Lead' rhymes with 'read'

AND 'lead' rhymes with 'read'

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187: "Fall" and "Autumn"

In the US, it's fall; in the UK, it's autumn

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185: From the zh sound /?/ to the j sound /?/

A natural progression through consonant sounds

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184: Pronouncing the zh sound

If you can say sh, you can say zh!

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183: expected and unexpected s sound/sh sound minimal pairs

'sock' and 'shock' are obvious, 'sour' and 'shower' might not be

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182: on-off /?n/ /?f/

The "cot/caught merger"and short o/aw sound revisited

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181: The troublesome thr- /?r/ combination

Words like three, through, throw, thread, and threaten

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180: because ? 'cuz: stressed, unstressed, informal

How to know which form of this high-frequency word to use

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179: The silent 'p' in pneumatic and psychology

A listener request for an explanation of less-common patterns

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178: "Feeling" the vibration of vowel sounds

long e /i/, short a /æ/, and short o /?/

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177: -ate suffix revisited--advanced lesson

Highly fluent speakers understand this suffix!

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176: Swearing!

If you're going to swear, you'd better be able to pronounce short vowel sounds!

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175: Short Vowels Minimal Sets

Practice sets like: pat, pet, pit, pot, putt

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174: 3-sound clusters beginning with 's'

/skr/ /spl/ /spr/ and /str/

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173: Digraphs and trigraphs

sh, th, tch, dge, gn, mb, and more!

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172: The 'c-c' spelling

Is it /k/ as in 'accuse' or /ks/ as in 'succeed'

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171: The silent l in the word 'salmon'

Even words we don't use that often still matter

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170: schwa+r /?/ paragraph practice

Practice this difficult sound in context

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169: Pronouncing "Seattle"

It takes an advanced lesson to handle a word like "Seattle"

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