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Beginner
0 / 14 doneTH: Voiced and Unvoiced
The tongue-tip fricatives
The American R and L
Bunched R vs tongue-tip L
V vs W
Teeth-on-lip vs rounded lips
F vs V
Voiceless and voiced labiodentals
P vs B with Aspiration
That puff of air on P
The Breathy H
Don't swallow initial H
NG Endings without the G
Nasal release, no hard stop
Short I vs Long EE
Ship vs sheep
Short A, Ash, and Long AY
Cat, cake, and the flat A
Short U vs Long OO
Cup, put, and boot
The Schwa Reduction
The laziest vowel in English
American Diphthongs
AY, OW, OY gliding vowels
R-Colored Vowels
ER, AR, OR, AIR, EAR
The Cot–Caught Merger
Open O vs rounded AW
Intermediate
0 / 15 doneTwo-Syllable Word Stress
Stress the first or the second?
Noun vs Verb Stress Pairs
REcord vs reCORD
Compound Noun Stress
GREEN-house vs green HOUSE
-ed Past Tense: T, D, or ID
Three endings, one spelling
-s Endings: S, Z, or IZ
Plural and verb endings
Silent Letters
Letters you don't say
Notoriously Mispronounced Words
Traps learners hit first
Consonant Clusters
str-, -sts, -lks, -nths
Consonant-to-Vowel Linking
Glide across word boundaries
Vowel-to-Vowel Linking
Intrusive /j/ and /w/
Assimilation: Did You → Didja
When sounds blend together
Elision: Dropped Sounds
Next day → nexday
Weak Forms of Function Words
Can, to, of, and, for
Reduced Forms: Gonna, Wanna, Hafta
Casual speech contractions
Glottal Stops at Word Boundaries
The catch in uh-oh
Advanced
0 / 14 doneContent vs Function Words
Strong beats carry meaning
English Is Stress-Timed
Equal time between stressed beats
Rising and Falling Intonation
Where pitch lands
Yes/No vs Wh- Question Intonation
Rising vs falling questions
List Intonation
Rise-rise-rise-fall
Emphatic and Contrastive Stress
Moving the meaning
Tone Units and Chunking
Speaking in phrases, not words
The American Flap T
Water → wader
Nasal T and T-Dropping after N
Important → impor'nt
Dark L vs Clear L
Light at the start, dark at the end
TR and DR Affrication
Tree → chree, dream → jream
Vowel Reduction in Fast Speech
Full vowels collapse to schwa
Uptalk and HRT Patterns
Rising pitch on statements
High-Frequency Casual Phrases
What-do-you, I-don't-know