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American English Pronunciation Podcast

The American English Pronunciation podcasts teaches non-native English speakers and ESL/ELL students

Episodes

Total: 200

Americans usually pronounce 'been' with a 'short i,' not a 'long e.' Full episode transcripts at ww

Learn to correctly say these three similar-sounding words. Full episode transcripts at www.pronunci

A few tips about adjacent vowel sounds for this 3-syllable word that help for even more words. Full

/sɛz/ and /sɛd/: be careful about mispronouncing these two high-frequency words. Full episode trans

Native Japanese speakers of English face special difficulties when speaking English. Full episode t

Learn the correct way to pronounce these three homophones. Full episode transcripts at www.pronunci

The consonant+y covers a wide number of suffix-based syllable stress patterns. Learn one and you lea

Words ending in the -ate suffix are stressed on the 3rd-from-last syllable, but the suffix itself ca

Words ending in the -ize suffix are usually stressed on the 3rd-from-last syllable. Full episode tr

Learn about -ic word stress (as in 'classic' and 'economic') and review the 2-syllable word stress r

English syllable stress follows some very common patterns that can be learned. Full episode transcr

Learn about the often mispronounced short i sound, and compare it with the long e sound. Full episo

Learn to correctly pronounce /h/ in English, not too hard, not too soft. Full episode transcripts a

Voicing and aspiration are characteristics of /g/ and /k/ in English pronunciation. Full episode tr

The /m/ and /n/ are two of the three nasal sounds in English. Learn about them here. Full episode t

Learn about the ng sound (as in 'song'), the first of three nasal sounds in English pronunciation.

Learn about the 'ch' (as in 'church') and 'j' (as in 'judge'), English's only two affricate sounds.

Pronounce /p/ and /b/ correctly and compare them with the consonants /f/ and /v/. Full episode tran

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How is the rhythm of spoken English created? Continuing learning the basics behind sentence stress a