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What is the difference between sounds and letters? English pronunciation for some difficult sounds English Tongue Twisters. Silent letters. Common pronunciation mistakes. Tips for mastering the American accent.

Sounds and Letters

Letter ( alphabet) is an element in the alphabetic system. Each letter in the written language is usually associated with one phoneme (sound) in the spoken form of the language. In English there are 26 letters 21 consonants and 5 vowels.

Sounds and Letters

Phoneme is the smallest unit of sound employed to form a meaningful contrasts between utterances. In English there ar 44 sounds 20 vowel sounds and 24 consonant sounds. Why should we know the difference?

English Pronunciation

English pronunciation

/p/ and /b/ They belong to a class of sounds Stops. Voiced Voiceless sounds. How ?
Why do we ? /b/ ; bay baby - boot /p/ ; pay paper - pool

English Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twister

Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, it is the peanut-butter picky people pick

Tongue Twister Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

English pronunciation
Th has 2 sounds in English. Both belong to a class of sounds called the Fricatives.
// and /s/ How to pronounce the // ? What is the difference between Th // and /s/ ? Thin - Sin Thick - Sick Thing Sing Think - Sink

English Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twister

I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

Tongue Twister

Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds . thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday

English pronunciation / / and /z/ How to pronounce the / / ? What is the difference between Th / / and /z/ ? This is There Father Together

English Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twister
. There those thousand thinkers were thinking where did those other three thieves go through

Tongue Twister
Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.

English pronunciation
Sh for // and Ch /t/ /t/ belongs to ---Affricates. How to pronounce the / t / ? What is the difference between // and/t/ ? Chalk Chocolate Choose - Shoes

English Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twister
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education . because the chief occupation is cultivation

English pronunciation
//

for the ing It belongs to a class of sound called Nasals.

How to pronounce // ?
Swimming Reading Interesting

Silent letters

Silent letters
In an alphabetic writing system, a silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation. Silent letters create problems for both native and non-native speakers of a language, as they make it more difficult to guess the spellings of spoken words or the pronunciations of written words. Here is a list of common letter combinations with silent letters. This list contains most of the silent letters that give English as a second language students difficulties.

Silent letters
Silent B B is not pronounced when following M at the end of a word. Climb, comb B is also silent when followed by a T Debt, doubt, subtle.

Silent letters
Silent C C is not pronounced when following an S at the beginning of a word and followed by E and I Scent, scissoors and science. Normally C is pronounced as /k/ sound, when it is followed by /l/ as in; Climb ,Cloud C is silent in the scle as in muscle Silent D D is not pronounced in the following common words: Handkerchief, Wednesday, Handsome

Silent letters
Silent G G is not often not pronounced when followed by an N Champagne, foreign Sign , resign
Silent GH GH is not pronounced before T and at the end of many words. Thought, light, might, right, fight through, weigh daughter

Silent letters
Silent H H is not pronounced at the beginning of many words. Use the article "an" with unvoiced H. Here are some of the most common: Hour ,honest,honor,heir,herb Pronounced H H is pronounced at the beginning of these common words. Use the article "a" with voiced H. Hill, history,height, happy

Silent letters
Silent K

K is not pronounced when followed by N at the beginning of a word. Knife, knee know ,knock , knowledge

Silent letters
Silent L L is often not pronounced before L, D, F, M, K. half salmon ,talk would, should

Silent letters
Silent N N is not pronounced following M at the end of a word. Autumn Column Damn Silent P The letter P is silent in words; receipt

Silent letters
Silent S S is not pronounced before L in the following words: Island aisle
Silent T T is not pronounced in these common words: castle Christmas listen , whistle often

Silent letters
Silent W W is silent in the word answer and is replaced by a very soft /t/ sound. W is not pronounced at the beginning of a word followed by an R. Wrap, write ,wrong W is not pronounced with these three pronouns: who whose whom

Common mistakes

Common mistakes
Clothes---close Worked---wrkt World----wr-eld Says Th

Common mistakes
What is Cluster of consonants? Do we have clusters in the Arabic language?
Friends ---- friend-es Next ------nek-est Works-------work-es

Common mistakes
Pronunciation of the O letter in ;
Office Dog Worry

Mastering the American accent

Tips for mastering the American accent

The Sound /r/ in American English is never silent. How to pronounce /r/? Car, learn , heard , four. Her fourth birthday is on next Thursday

Tips for mastering the American accent

fast /d/.

The Sound /t/ in American English when it falls between 2 vowels is pronoun
Water , city, better, ability, butter. When /t/ falls in the final position of a word and the beginning of the next a vowel. What are Yes, it is. Will you get in or get out I got up at eleven.