What Is a Schwa?

The schwa is a vowel sound that appears in unstressed syllables and kind of sounds like "uh." It's also been called the murmur vowel, the indeterminate vowel, the neutral vowel, the obscure vowel, and the natural vowel. This scene from "The Princess Bride" will help you understand the schwa.

Shifting Stress For Different Parts Of Speech - American English Pronunc...

What are the spelling mistakes in these tattoos?

1. A love thicker then blood

Words with Alternative Pronunciation

Compound Nouns

Most Difficult Words to Pronounce

Words With Surprising Pronunciation

Words with Disappearing Syllables

Tag Questions Intonation

How to Pronounce the Sound /w/

Phonetics

Silent "T" – Natural American English Pronunciation

 https://www.myhappyenglish.com/?powerpress_pinw=14793-podcast

I noticed that quite often when there is an N and a T together in a word, we….I mean us Americans… often drop the T in usual pronunciation. A common example of this is the word Twenty…eighteen, nineteen, twen(t)y. Tweny!

Conversations

Contrast of Short [i] and Long [i:]

In the last two days, you’ve practiced the Short I and Long E sounds individually. Now, you’re ready to tackle them both together. This lesson will help you stop pronouncing “it is my first visit” like “eat ease my first veezeet.” You can do it!

Long [i:] Sound

In this lesson, we’re going to look at the Long E [i:] vowel sound (as used in the words heat, speak, and receive). This sound is easier than Short [i] because it is commonly found in a lot of other languages. How about yours?

Short [i] vowel sound

Minimal Pairs

The story of the Australian pig farmer whose livestock were decimated by floods has been circulating on the Internet recently. A reporter misheard him say that 'Thirty thousand pigs were floating down the river', and reported it as such. In fact, what he had said was: 'Thirty sows and pigs...'. 

American English Pronunciation

Don't Devoice Voiced Consonants

A friend of mine was translating from English into Russian in front of a small crowd. The American was talking about the "ice" [ais], that she'd walked outside and slipped on the "ice." My friend had thought the lady had somehow slipped on her eyes [aiz], but couldn't really figure it out.

1 letter of the English alphabet

One may think it's so easy, but check out these words with the "o" letter combinations:

• spot
• collect
• corn
• coat

All 4 have different o-sounds.

This podcast is all about the letter "o" and how it is commonly mispronounced by non-native English speakers. There're a number of reasons why this sound isn't pronounced the way it's supposed to be, and mainly it's because of the non-native tendency to be "hyper" correct, which in this case works against us. Learn the 4 main ways this letter is mispronounced and practice different groups of words with this letter