Languages and regional accents have pronunciation patterns which are easily transferred into a new language. This is the case with those who struggle to make a clear English B and V or a clear P and F. In this video, I describe this issue and explain how to pronounce...

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...