American English Pronunciation Podcast

221: Compare ’unvoiced th’ to /f/, /s/, and /t/

220: The ’n-g’ spelling creates /ŋ/, as in the word ’song’

219: /g+n/ as in ”signal” and ”ignore”

218: Learn to hear vowels to learn to pronounce them

217: Compare long e, short i, and short e /i, ɪ, ɛ/

216: The Cardinal Vowels--long e /i/, oo sound /u/, short o /ɑ/, and short a /æ/

215: Adding ”bonus” information by using a low pitch

214: Yes/No Pitch Patterns

213: Intonation of Wh- Questions

212: /r+ɚ/ “explore” into “explorer”

211: Compare /æ/ and /ɑ/ (’short a’ and ’short o’)

210: ’-ue’ ending (unique, avenue, and rescue)

209: The difference between /ə/ and /ʌ/: schwa and short u

208: Cone/corn, coat/court

207: Why is ’quarter’ so hard to say?

206: I like/I’d like... bacon!

205: Dealing with ’o-u-g-h’

204: How ’have to’ becomes ’hafta’

203: When /t/ sounds like /d/ during linking: alveolar stop

202: How similar are /n/ and /l/?

201: Why is ’symptom’ pronounced that way?

200: A new spelling poem!

199: Would you like some coffee or tea?

198: Pronouncing ’clothes,’ ’close’ (verb), and ’close’ (adjective)

197: Linking vowels to sound fluent!

196: Do you say ’people’ as ’peopo’?

195: Dropping the /k/ in ’asked’ (HIMYM)

194: ’faux pas, chauffeur, fiance,’ and more

193: ’Twas the Night Before Christmas

192: Special holiday words

191: The difference between ’my car’ and ’Mike are’

190: From ’wait time’ to ’snack time’

189: Linking magic!

188: Heteronyms: ’Lead’ rhymes with ’read’

187: ’Fall’ and ’autumn’

186: Fake it ’til you make it!

185: From /ʒ/ to /ʤ/ (’zh’ to ’j’)

184: Pronouncing /ʒ/ the ’zh sound’

183: expected and unexpected /s/ and /ʃ/ minimal pairs

182: ’on’ and ’off’: /ɑn/ and /ɔf/

181: The troublesome ’thr’ /θr/ combination

180: ’because’→’cuz’: stressed, unstressed, informal

179: The silent /p/ in ’pneumatic’ and ’psychology’

178: ”Feeling” the vibration of vowel sounds

177: -ate suffix revisited--advanced lesson

176: Swearing!

175: Short Vowels Minimal Sets

174: 3-sound clusters beginning with ’s’

173: Digraphs and trigraphs, complicated spelling patterns

172: The ’cc’ spelling pronunciations (as in ’accuse’ and ’succeed)