What’s the difference in pronunciation between ex and eggs? Or wheat and weed? I have been posting a series of videos about English consonants. So far, we have looked at general categories of consonants. Now we are going to start looking at consonant contrasts. In...

In this video, I discuss the subcategory of consonants called “sibilants." Another word with the same pronunciation – “sibilance” – refers to the sound of audio interference which we sometimes hear on the radio or on poor quality audio recordings. This is the quality...

Continuing with my series on English consonants, in this video I explain the remaining two main categories of consonant – glides (W & Y) and liquids (L & R). After this initial explanation of the main categories, I still have two more sub-categories to explain...

In this post I talk about a category of English consonants called nasals. Nasal consonants are those that release sound through the nose. In some languages, nasal sounds permeate the vowels and a variety of consonants. In English, there are only three nasal...

Following up on my previous video post about two categories into which all English consonants can be divided – either stops or continuants, in this video post I will discuss consonants which have friction. Technically called affricates and fricatives, their common...

This is the first video in my series on a variety of aspects of pronunciation, starting with the consonants. I would say the consonants hold the vowels to create words. And in this first video, I talk about two basic categories that all consonants can be divided into...