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...