Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English ...

Go back a little further though, and you will begin to struggle, partly thanks to what is known as the Great Vowel Shift, or ...

English is a funny language in that there is no one to one correspondence between spelling and pronunciation. The spelling of a word doesn’t always tell us how the word is to be pronounced. English ...

In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the seventh of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the fourth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...