In this course, you’ll practice the sounds of American English that might sometimes be confusing. You'll practice both consonant and vowel sounds. You’ll also learn about the things that give English ...
As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...
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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the fifth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of five long vowel ...
How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 33, No. 1 (June 2003), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) The vowels /i/ and /I/ are not contrastive before /r/ in American English, and the phonetics ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the third of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of five long vowel ...
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