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#1: American English pronunciation of the th sounds

Learn about these two difficult, and uniquely English, sounds.
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Welcome to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. Not all Americans speak alike, but I'll help you get closer to how the majority of us do. By the way, my name is Mandy.

You can find transcripts of this podcast and lots of practice activities at www.pronuncian.com. You will also find our practice sentences there, like today's practice sentence, "Think about this thing, that thing, and those things."

#2: American English pronunciation of the d sound and t sound

Learn how to create the t sound and t sound in English.
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Welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. This is podcast number two. My name is Mandy.

I hope you enjoyed our last podcast, the th sounds podcast. I also hope you went to www.pronuncian.com for more th sounds lessons and practice. Pronuncian.com is also where you can find transcripts and show notes to all our podcasts. Today's practice will be 5 sets of minimal pairs: dime, time; dense, tense; code, coat; tide, tight, and spend, spent. We'll come back to those later.

#3: American English pronunciation of the s sound and z sound

Learn how to create the s sound and z sound in English, and the rules for the -s ending.
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Hello again, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. This is podcast #3. If you've forgotten, or are listening for the first time, my name is Mandy.

Remember, Pronuncian.com is where you can find transcripts and show notes to all our podcasts, as well as each practice sentence or word set. Today's practice will be the sentence: "Cats love boxes; dogs love beds." We'll come back to that later.

#4: American English pronunciation of the r sound

Learn the North American way of saying the r sound
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Hello everyone. It's me, Mandy. Welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. This is podcast number 4. Today we are going to begin a series of podcasts dedicated to one of the most hated sounds of English, the r sound and l sound. These are very complicated sounds, and it will take us a few shows to get through them in their entirety. In fact, today, we aren't even going to talk about the l sound. Our sentence for practicing the r sound today is, "On Thursday, Thelma threw three red rocks." It is no accident that we are putting so much emphasis on the r sound after the unvoiced th sound in that sentence.

Before we begin talking about the r sound and l sound, let's review our sentences and word sets from podcasts one through three. First, the th sounds. Repeat after me. "Think about this thing, that thing, and those things." (pause). Then our d sound/t sound minimal pairs, "dime, time; dense, tense; code, coat; tide, tight; spend, spent." And finally our s sound / z sound practice with the s endings in the sentence, "Cats love boxes, dogs love beds." All of these practice sentences are in the show notes, along with audio for them, as well as the transcripts for each show, at www.pronuncian.com.

#5: American English pronunciation of the r sound and l sound

Practice saying and hearing the difference between the r sound and l sound
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Hello again, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. My name is Mandy, and this is podcast #5. Today we are going to continue our study of the two liquid sounds, the r sound and l sound. Today's practice sentence is, "I would really like a little red wagon like Laura's." We'll come back to that later.

Did you practice last week's practice sentence? "On Thursday, Thelma threw three red rocks." I'm going to start only going back and reviewing the past three show's practice sentences or word sets. Our s sound / z sound practice with the s endings from two weeks ago was "Cats love boxes, dogs love beds." Remember that the final sound of the word before the -s ending dictates if the final s will be like an s sound or z sound. And our word set from Episode Two was: "dime, time; dense, tense; code, coat; tide, tight; spend, spent."

#6: American English pronunciation of the r-controlled vowels

Practice saying and hearing the difference between r-controlled vowels: schwa+r, ar sound, or sound, and air sound.
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Hi everyone, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation Podcast. My name is Mandy, and this is podcast number 6. If this is your first time listening to this podcast, you should know that this is the third of three podcasts dealing with the l sound and r sound, and you may want to go back and start with podcast #4.

I hope you've all had a chance to visit www.pronuncian.com and see the other free practice activities we offer on that site as well as read the transcripts if they help you understand this information.

#7: American English pronunciation of the w sound and y sound

Learn how to create semi-vowels (gides), the w sound and y sound and how they exist in words.
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Hi everyone, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation Podcast. This is podcast number 7, and my name is Mandy. We have just finished up three shows dedicated to the r sounds and l sound, and we had some pretty difficult practice sentences associated with those shows. Do you remember, "On Thursday, Thelma threw three red rocks," and "I would really like a little red wagon like Laura's" and finally, last week's really hard sentence, "Learning early in the morning can be fairly hard work."

Let's talk a bit about last week's practice. Remember, I told you that the practice sentence has all four r-controlled vowels. The schwa+r is in the words, learning, early, and work. The or sound is in the word morning. The ar sound is in the word hard, and the air sound is in the word fairly. Did you get that? I hope so.

#8: American English pronunciation of the five long vowel sounds

Learn which sounds are long vowels and how to correctly pronounce them.
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Hi again everyone, it's me, Mandy. Welcome to Settle Learning Academy's eighth American English Pronunciation Podcast. I hope you're enjoying the shows. Today we are going to begin a difficult set of shows about vowel sounds. Actually, today's show isn't that hard, but the next couple of weeks will have harder topics. We talked a little about vowels last week when I introduced the semi-vowels, the w sound and y sound. Speaking of the w sound and y sound, do you remember our practice sentence from that show? "Will you watch TV quietly while I'm working?"

How about the r-controlled vowel practice from the week before? "Learning early in the morning can be fairly hard work."

#9: American English pronunciation of the five short vowel sounds

This is the beginning of the difficult to say and hear vowel sounds. Start to realize the importance of being able to hear different sounds.
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Hi everyone! Welcome to episode 9 of Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation Podcast. If you are a regular listener, you know we are in the middle of learning about vowel sounds. If this is your first time listening to this podcast, I'd like to say hello. My name is Mandy. As always, the transcript for this show is available at www.pronuncian.com. You will also find a link on Pronuncian for buying the book, "Pronunciation Pages: Sounds of American English" published by Seattle Learning Academy. The book is available as an ebook download, or as a physical copy to be shipped to you. Along with your book purchase, you get 6 months full access to the pronuncian website.

Let's get back to vowels. Last week we started talking about vowels and learned the five key words for our long vowels. Do you remember them? If not, they were: cake, keep, bike, home, cute. Long vowels are easy to remember because they sound like their name, a, e, i, o, and u. Today we will talk about short vowels, which are way more difficult to say and to hear. Like long vowels, I have key words for short vowels.

#11: American English pronunciation of the aw sound, oi sound, and ow sound

Learn about and practice these "other" vowels.
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Welcome to the eleventh episode of Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. If you are just joining us in this podcast, my name is Mandy, and we are just finishing up a series of four podcasts about vowels. I would strongly encourage you to listen to the previous three podcasts along with this one. These shows about vowels lay the foundation for many upcoming podcasts, and I hope you come back to them when you need a reminder about certain vowel sounds.

Last week we had a practice sentence in addition to our new key words. It was "Good fruit looks like good food should," and it emphasized the u as in put sound and the oo sound. Our key words for those sounds were put and soon.

#13: The American English Pronunciation of informal contractions

Learn how to understand and use these commonly spoken English contractions.
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Hi everyone, it's me Mandy, and this is the American English Pronunciation podcast number 13. Today we have a fun podcast about informal contractions. Last week I taught about common contractions, words like don't and can't. Remember, contractions are important to use to help the rhythm of spoken English. Informal contractions are optional contractions, which are said very frequently, but rarely used in writing. Examples are words like wanna, gimme, and lemme. You're likely already familiar with these common informal contractions if you live in the United States.

As a listener of English, you really need to be able to understand people who use informal contractions, and nearly every native speaker does. It is your choice to decide to use them in your own speech or not.

#14: Linking vowels in American English pronunciation

Learn how to link vowels and consonants to sound more fluent.
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Hi again everyone. This is Mandy, and this is Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation Podcast. This is podcast number 14, and the beginning of a couple of podcasts about linking.

Last week I talked about informal contractions, words like wanna and gonna and lemme. The purpose of informal contractions is to help with the rhythm of English. By combining some words that occur frequently together into a single word, we can easily reduce those words and stress the words surrounding them.

#16: American English pronunciation of reducing pronouns

Learn how and why to reduce the pronouns he, him, her, and them
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Hi everyone. Welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American Pronunciation podcast. This is podcast number 16. If you are just joining us, my name is Mandy.

I decided to stay on a topic related to rhythm today, since that is what we've been studying since episode number 12. In fact, today's podcast about reduced pronouns has a lot of similarity to podcast 12, which was about common contractions.

#17: American English pronunciation of the sh sound and zh sound

Learn about and practice the fricatives sh sound and zh sound.
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Hello again, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. This is podcast #17. My name is Mandy.

I am going to get back into some sound practice for a few weeks, because there are still quite a few sounds to study. Since it's been a few weeks, I'll review a little bit of vocabulary from the earlier sound podcasts.

#18: American English pronunciation of the f sound and v sound

Learn about and practice the fricatives f sound and v sound.
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Hi everyone. Welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. My name is Mandy, and this is podcast number 18.

Last week we practiced the sh sound and zh sound. Let's review our practice sentence for those sounds:

#19: American English pronunciation of the ed ending

English has three pronunciations of the -ed ending: t sound, d sound, and -id; this podcast tells you how to know which to use.
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Hi everyone, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. My name is Mandy, and this is podcast number 19.

Last week we studied the f sound and v sound, and the difficulties many students have between the v sound and w sound, or the v sound and b sound. As a review, here are a few minimal pairs between the f sound and v sound.

#20: The American English Pronunciation Rhythm Rule and Sentence Stress

Learn the basics behind sentence stress and the Rhythm Rule.
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Hi everyone, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast. My name is Mandy, and this is podcast number 20. Today's podcast is exciting for a number of reasons.

First, I am looking for input from all of you. I am planning to start adding supplemental podcasts in addition to these regular ones that are language specific. I know I am going to do one for Japanese speakers first and Spanish speakers second, because many of our listeners come from Japan as well as Spanish speaking countries. After that I will go down the list of what I can guess other listeners speak, based on the country you are listening from. If you're listening from the United States, I have no idea what your first language is. I can't get that information through my podcast tracking software. I need you to tell me.