20: The Rhythm Rule and Sentence Stress

How to pronounce words like "thin/fin," "mouth/mouse," and "both/boat." Perfect your English fricative sounds by never stopping the air from passing through your mouth. Transcripts at pronuncian.com 

At the end of the word, the /ŋ/ doesn't need an additional /g/. The /g/ is potentially included mid-word. Transcripts available at pronuncian.com 

"Coarticulating" the /g/ and /n/ is the trick to fluent pronunciation of these two sounds. Don't release the /g/ before starting the /n/. Transcripts available on Pronuncian.com 

Learn to properly pronounce 30 confusing words in English with word stress. When you correctly place stress on specific syllables, you speak with proper word stress with nouns and verbs. Word stress is important because it carries meaning in the word. Notice how the same word pro ... Show More

Download your FREE PDF to get more words to practice and make your pronunciation easier with these disappearing sounds in English: https://hadarshemesh.com/syllable-deletion-freebie/ Make your life easier with this hack! You don’t always have to pronounce all the syllables in a w ... Show More

The pronunciation of many English words sounds different from the way they appear to be written. Some English words have "disappearing or dropped syllables" - reductions or eliminations of sounds in the middle of the word. One example is the word favorite - we don't pronounce it ... Show More

⭐ Download FREE lesson PDF! - https://espressoenglish.lpages.co/50-hard-words-free-pdf-audio/ 🗨️ American English Pronunciation Course: https://www.espressoenglish.net/american-english-pronunciation-course/  The English language has a lot of hard words to pronounce! These are wo ... Show More

Learn the correct pronunciation for these 32 commonly mispronounced English words. I teach you the individual pronunciation as well as connected speech in the American English accent. We go over each word as well as sentences that you can practice. Ready for this Advanced English ... Show More

Let's practice 100+ words with long and short vowel sounds! Download lesson text 👉 https://espressoenglish.lpages.co/long-short-vowels-pdf-audio/  A vowel is a sound we make with our mouth and vocal cords open, without touching our tongue to any other part of our mouth. In vowel ... Show More

If you want to get more fluent in English or improve your pronunciation and accent, then it's time to make sure you have your syllables are in order. We talk about what syllables are, how to count syllables, and there's even a short syllables quiz included in this lesson. Syllabl ... Show More

Let's practice pronunciation together! We'll work on pairs of words with confusing pronunciation - in which the same combinations of letters are pronounced differently. One very frustrating thing about the English language is that the pronunciation is irregular. There aren’t stri ... Show More

Are you ready to practice your pronunciation with some longer words? The ones we’ll practice today all have 5 syllables – like the word vocabulary: vo-CA-bu-la-ry I’ll say each word twice – once a little more slowly with some separation between the syllables, and then once at nor ... Show More

English words can be really confusing sometimes. In these how-to-pronounce episodes published on Fridays, I’ll help you with the pronunciation of confusing words and common names. This week we’re going to talk about the words ‘quit’, ‘quite’, and ‘quiet’. Here’s a loose transcrip ... Show More