American English Pronunciation Podcast

Latest Episodes:

181: The troublesome ’thr’ /θr/ combination Jul 02, 2013

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Practice words like 'three, through, throw, thread,' and 'threaten.' Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

180: ’because’→’cuz’: stressed, unstressed, informal Jun 18, 2013

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How to know which form of this high-frequency word to use. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

179: The silent /p/ in ’pneumatic’ and ’psychology’ Jun 04, 2013

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A listener request for an explanation of less-common patterns. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

178: ”Feeling” the vibration of vowel sounds May 14, 2013

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Learn the feel the 'long e' /i/, 'short a' /æ/, and 'short o' /ɑ/. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

177: -ate suffix revisited--advanced lesson Apr 30, 2013

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Highly fluent speakers understand this suffix. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

176: Swearing! Apr 16, 2013

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If you're going to swear, you'd better be able to pronounce short vowel sounds! Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

175: Short Vowels Minimal Sets Apr 02, 2013

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Practice sets like: pat, pet, pit, pot, putt. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

174: 3-sound clusters beginning with ’s’ Mar 19, 2013

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/skr/ (scratch) /spl/ (splash) /spr/ (spree) and /str/ (streak) Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

173: Digraphs and trigraphs, complicated spelling patterns Mar 05, 2013

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

172: The ’cc’ spelling pronunciations (as in ’accuse’ and ’succeed) Feb 19, 2013

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Is it /k/ as in 'accuse' or /ks/ as in 'succeed' Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.