Pronunciation - the mystery of the disap...

In this episode, we explore the different ways people do laundry, from meticulous care to a more carefree approach.Get the transcript in your inbox.In this series, designed for upper beginners and beyond, we’ll explore everyday situations in Portugal and other useful topics to he ... Show More

In this episode, we follow the story of a family caught in a daily battle for control of the "diabolical device" – the TV remote – and explore the dynamics of who controls the television at home.Get the transcript in your inbox.In this series, designed for upper beginners and bey ... Show More

In this episode, we follow Joana as she navigates various invitations, from dinner parties to weddings, and comes up with creative excuses to politely decline them.Get the transcript in your inbox.In this series, designed for upper beginners and beyond, we’ll explore everyday sit ... Show More

In early Modern English, writers and printers began to revise the spelling of many English words to reflect their etymological origins. Old letters were revived from the dead to reflect sounds that had disappeared over time in those words. This fad reached its height in the mid-1 ... Show More

In this episode we’re going to talk about the H, and talk about what happens to the T, K and P’s at the beginning of words (hint, it has to do with H’s). For more resources watch these videos: Silent H in English: https://hadarshemesh.com/magazine/the-h/ The American T Sound: htt ... Show More

We’re revisiting some of our most popular and favorite episodes on the podcast. I mention the schwa almost every time I speak about American English. That’s because this vowel is all over the place, and once you hear it, you never stop hearing it 🙂 The schwa is a very short and ... Show More

( I recommend checking the YouTube version of this episode as I have written all the examples on the screen and it could be hard to understand without those.) One of the reasons native English speakers are hard to understand is because we contract/shorten a lot of words or groups ... Show More

This is it! I’ve finally found out everything about the “ash” sound in American English – and if you’ve also been wondering about the following problem: Why is it that in some American English words the letter ‘A’ gets pronounced as [eə] despite the phonetic transcription describ ... Show More

In this episode I explain schwa (ə), the most common sound in the English language, when to use it, and how you can use it correctly to sound more like a native speaker. 

I hear a lot of people referring to BBC English, RP (received pronunciation), or the Queen's English as "standard English" or "standard pronunciation" but in this episode I explain why I don't think this isn't quite right. 

In the first episode of English in 10 Minutes, married couple Nick and Wendy talk about their different backgrounds as native English speakers and how this has affected the way they speak English. 

Typical sentence stress changes when phrasal verbs are involved: stress the preposition, not the verb. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast. 

How did the English alphabet -- a strange agglomeration of curved and straight-lined symbols -- become a thing? In the second part of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the messy evolution of modern English, with a special shoutout to each letter of the cur ... Show More