It's a new year! Let's smash some language learning goals and flex those pronunciation muscles!
 
In this episode of English Sound Building, we learn more about the most common sound in English: schwa. This sound is important in distinguishing between stressed and unstressed syllables, and stressed and unstressed words (we'll talk about this more in a future episode).
 
In the first few minutes, I give some tips on making the sound. If you're happy with that, feel free to skip straight to 3.50 ready for the workout to begin. We look at some common words containing schwa, as well as some fun and challenging sentences with a lot of schwa sounds.
 
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It's a new year! Let's smash some language learning goals and flex those pronunciation muscles!
 
 In this episode of English Sound Building, we work on distinguishing between the /æ/ and /e/ sounds. The way in which these sounds is pronounced varies a lot between different varieties of English. Depending on your language background, you may also find it difficult to distinguish between them. Although mastering the distinction is absolutely not essential to be understood, it's fun to try :-)
 
In the first few minutes, I give some tips on making the sounds. If you're happy with that, feel free to skip straight to around 3.40 ready for the main workout to begin. We look at some common words containing both sounds,  some minimal pairs (where the only difference is in the pronunciation of each sound), as well as some fun and challenging sentences with a lot of each sound individually and combined.
 
Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.
The Podcast script is now available free on my Patreon, as is a free video bonus for this episode. There's more free English there, too.
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It's a new year! Let's smash some language learning goals and flex those pronunciation muscles!
 
 In this episode of English Sound Building, we look at the voiceless and voiced "th" sounds. These sounds are not found in many other languages (indeed, they are not found in all Englishes!), and although they are absolutely not essential to be understood, it's fun to try :-)
 
In the first few minutes, I give some tips on making the sounds. If you're happy with that, feel free to skip straight to 4.30 ready for the workout to begin. We look at some common words containing both sounds, as well as some fun and challenging sentences with a lot of each sound both individually and combined.
 
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It's a new year! Let's meet some language learning goals and flex some pronunciation muscles! 

In this episode of English Sound Building, we work on distinguishing between the voiceless and voiced pair /s/ and /z/. We look at some common words containing both sounds, as well as some fun and challenging sentences.

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