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Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re back with connected speech, this time looking at another 'intrusive' sound: /w/. Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.    The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki! Contact me if there is no availability showing – I always try to make room for podcast listeners 😊 Support the show

Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re picking back up on the /ɪ/ and /e/ sounds from last week, and seeing how they behave in two schwa diphthongs: /ɪə/ and /eə/. We’ll look at the sounds individually, in common words, and in sentences.  Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.   The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki! Contact me if there is no availability showing – I always try to make room for podcast listeners 😊 Support the show

Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! This week we're revisiting two short vowels we've looked at before: /e/ and /ɪ/, and contrasting them with each other.   Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.    The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? You can learn with me on italki! If my schedule shows no availability, please contact me anyway - I try to make room for podcast listeners :-) Support the show

Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we're looking at "syncope" in pronunciation: otherwise known as words with disappearing syllables.  Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.   The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki!  Support the show

Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we're looking at word stress in two-syllable nouns and verbs.  Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.   The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki!  Support the show

Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we're picking back up on /b/ from last week, but contrasting it with the fricative /v/. We’ll look at the sounds individually, in common words, and in sentences.  Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.   The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki!  Support the show

Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we're looking at our last voiceless/ voiced consonant pair: /p/ and /b/. We’ll look at the sounds individually, in common words, and in sentences.  Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.   The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki!  Support the show

Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Following on from last week's episode all about /h/, this week we're discussing when /h/ is dropped - both by most speakers, in the weak forms of grammar words, and by some speakers, much more often, in some regional English accents.    Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.    The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki!  Support the show

Welcome back! To kick off season 4, we're practising the /h/ sound. Have fun! Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.     If you use social media, come find me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki!  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/englishbrickbybrick)

Welcome to season 3 of English Sound Building! It's season 3 recap time already. We're having fun with the sounds we've focused on this season (as well as those from previous seasons) by working on some tongue twisters, a short rhyme, and two songs. Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.    The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki! I'm officially fully booked at the moment, but I may be able to make an exception for podcast listeners, so please let me know!         Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/englishbrickbybrick)

Welcome to season 3 of English Sound Building! Today, we're contrasting two sounds we've looked at separately before: /ʃ/ and /s/.  We're looking at a lot of minimal pairs, and we're practising with some sentences and a famous tongue twister, too. Have fun! Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.   The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki! I'm officially fully booked at the moment, but I may be able to make an exception for podcast listeners, so please let me know! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/englishbrickbybrick)

Welcome back to season 3 of English Sound Building! Today, we're looking at how /j/ is heard between sounds in connected speech. Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.    The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki! I'm officially fully booked at the moment, but I may be able to make an exception for podcast listeners, so please let me know! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/englishbrickbybrick)