American English Pronunciation Podcast

181: The troublesome ’thr’ /θr/ combination

Practice words like 'three, through, throw, thread,' and 'threaten.'
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180: ’because’→’cuz’: stressed, unstressed, informal

How to know which form of this high-frequency word to use.
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179: The silent /p/ in ’pneumatic’ and ’psychology’

A listener request for an explanation of less-common patterns.
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178: ”Feeling” the vibration of vowel sounds

Learn the feel the 'long e' /i/, 'short a' /æ/, and 'short o' /ɑ/.
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177: -ate suffix revisited--advanced lesson

Highly fluent speakers understand this suffix.
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176: Swearing!

If you're going to swear, you'd better be able to pronounce short vowel sounds!
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175: Short Vowels Minimal Sets

Practice sets like: pat, pet, pit, pot, putt.
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174: 3-sound clusters beginning with ’s’

/skr/ (scratch) /spl/ (splash) /spr/ (spree) and /str/ (streak)
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173: Digraphs and trigraphs, complicated spelling patterns

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

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

Is it /k/ as in 'accuse' or /ks/ as in 'succeed'
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