Learn how to pronounce the words ECONOMY, ECONOMICS, ECONOMICAL, ECONOMICALLY with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. #learnenglish Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/7a3db27ffae5/tarle-speech-newsletter Pron…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! 1- I have never seen or met an abominable snowman, also known as a Yeti. 2- I.R.S. is the abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service. 3- My uncle is an aeronautical engineer. 4- I put the books in alphabetical order. 5- My son doesn’t like to bathe, and as a …

Learn how to pronounce the words RELATE, RELATION, RELATIVE, RELATABLE, RELATIVELY with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. #learnenglish Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/7a3db27ffae5/tarle-speech-newsletter…

Learn how to pronounce the words COMPETE, COMPETITION, COMPETITOR with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. #learnenglish Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/7a3db27ffae5/tarle-speech-newsletter Pronunciation: C…

Learn how to pronounce the words inaugurate, inaugural, and inauguration with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/7a3db27ffae5/tarle-speech-newsletter Definitions: inaugurate…

Learn how to pronounce the words trump and tramp with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. #learnenglish Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/7a3db27ffae5/tarle-speech-newsletter Definitions: trump: most valuable…

Learn how to pronounce the words Donald and McDonald's with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. #learnenglish Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/7a3db27ffae5/tarle-speech-newsletter Definitions: Donald - a man…

Learn how to link the words last year and this year with this American English pronunciation lesson. When a word ends in a T and the next year starts with a Y, then you can link the sounds into a CH sound. If a word ends in an S and then the next year starts with a Y, then the S+Y becomes the SH sound. Products, classes, and socials: https://linktr…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Suggestion: Read the sentences first and then put them away. Do NOT try to read the words while you listen and repeat. Reading will NOT help your pronunciation. Train your ears. Repeat: train your ears. 1- The fires in Los Angeles are out of control. 2- She came…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! It's okay to read the sentences if you need to, but please do NOT try to read them while you're repeating with the podcast. English spelling is a distraction. It's NOT a useful guide to pronunciation.* Close your eyes (unless you're driving!) and use your ears. …

Learn how to pronounce the words three, thirteen, and thirty (3, 13, 30) with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. Definitions: 3, 13, 30 are numbers Pronunciation: Three: /θri/ Thirteen: /ˈθɜrˈtin/ Thirty: /ˈθɜrdi/ Jennifer Tarle…

Learn how to pronounce the words feat and feet with this American English Homophone pronunciation lesson. These words are pronounced the SAME way but have different meanings and different spellings. Definitions: Feat: an achievement or accomplishment Feet: plural of foot Pronunciation: These words are pronounced the SAME way: /fit/ Jennifer Tarle f…

Learn how to pronounce the words YOKE and YOLK with this American English Homophone pronunciation lesson. These words are pronounce the SAME way but have different meanings and different spellings. Definitions: YOKE: a wooden crosspiece used across two animals to pull or an airplane steering part YOLK: the yellow internal part of a bird's egg Pronu…

Learn how to pronounce the words millionaire, questionnaire, and legionnaire with this American English pronunciation lesson. Learn the stress exception rule for -AIRE - which is to always stress the suffix. Jennifer Tarle from Tarle Speech & Language #English teaches you how to be a clear and effective communicator. Learn new vocabulary & American…

Learn how to pronounce the words wry and rye with this American English Homophone pronunciation lesson. These words are pronounce the SAME way but have different meanings and different spellings. Definitions: Wry: crooked, ironic, or showing annoyance Rye: a grain, type of whiskey, or a type of bread Wry: a series of events that leads to an outcome…

Learn how to pronounce the words soar, sore, sort, sword, soars, sores, and source with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. Definitions: Soar: a painful ache, a lesion, or an abrasion Sore: to fly above or excel Sort: to classify…

Learn how to pronounce the words pollute, polluted, polluting, and pollution with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. Definitions: Pollute: to contaminate or defile Polluted: past tense of pollute Polluting: verb of pollute Pollu…

Learn how to pronounce the words LIME and LYME with this American English Homophone pronunciation lesson. These words are pronounced the SAME way but have different meanings and different spellings. Definitions: LIME: a green citrus fruit LYME: a surname or the name of the disease spread by ticks Pronunciation: These words are pronounced the SAME w…

Learn how to pronounce the words drawn, drown, and drone with this American English pronunciation lesson. Improve your accent, speak clearly, and improve your speaking confidence with this English pronunciation lesson. Definitions: Drawn: to draw, or looking exhausted Drown: to submerge in water or to die by inhaling water Drone: a humming sound, m…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! November 2, 2024 Hello everybody. I've been meaning to record a short podcast to tell you what's going on, and here it is. I've been very busy the past month and November and December are shaping up to be even busier. So I'm not going to record any new podcasts …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! If your native language doesn’t include many consonant blends, English can be a challenge. An example is “st” as in the word “test.” These blends can appear at the beginning of a word, in the middle, or at the end. Let’s practice. 1- The first test was the worst…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! (From - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: beginning of Chapter 7.) There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Here are three more Phrasal Verbs based on “take”: 1- As soon as all the passengers were seated and buckled in, the plane took off. [the plane left the ground] 2- When the burglars heard our key in the lock, they took off through the back door and raced down the…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Imaginary businesses with tricky-to-pronounce names. Use this podcast as an exercise to warm up your pronunciation. Go slowly before you try to go fast! 1- Rudy’s Radioactive Radiator Repair 2- Thea’s Thursday Seances Featuring Thinking, Theorizing, and Theremin…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! To “take over” has a couple of meanings. It can mean to “take control of” something, but it can also mean to control by being bossy. 1- While I was sick, weeds took over the garden. Now it looks terrible. 2- When my father died, I had to take over running the co…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Another expression with the verb take. Let’s practice with “to take advantage of.” To “take advantage of” can be good or bad. Here’s an example of the bad kind: “He took advantage of his friend’s generosity by borrowing money and never paying it back.” And the g…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Let’s continue our practice with the verb “take”, this time with “take place” which means to “happen”, usually for organized events. 1) The next summer Olympic Games will take place in Los Angeles. I hope it won’t be too hot. 2) The next performance by the Bosto…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! The verb “take” is very common in English and it’s used in many ways. One of the expressions is to “take a look.” Here are some examples: 1) “Doctor, please take a look at this X-ray.” 2) He took one look at the snake and said, “It’s a Burmese Python.” 3) “We ne…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! August has been very busy but here's a podcast so you won't think I've run away somewhere. We use the word "so" in many ways. Here are some sample sentences. 1- That is a beautiful painting? Do you really think so? 2- Is it time for dinner? Is the food ready? I …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! This podcast contains 26 sentences. Each sentence includes at least one 4-syllable word. The words are in alphabetical order, so the 4-syllable word in the first sentence is “alligator” beginning with “A” and so on. Sentence number 26 contains the word “zoology”…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Fixed expressions are little English phrases that native speakers use all the time. If I were in your shoes, I would learn lots of fixed expressions. For variety, this podcast uses several synthetic voices to read the sentences. 1. The fact that she speaks five …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Practice with the DJ sound, as in “judge” and “ginger.” 1 - His travel agency has a large budget for advertising. 2 - Have you ever heard of an angel with an allergy? 3 - The archaeologist apologized to the biologist. 4 - She lives on the edge of Egypt. 5 - The …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Here's a short poem to help you practice S, Z, and SH sounds. Dessert Time at the Zooquarium. A zebra sipped a milkshake. A serpent swam in cream. Hippos splashed and frolicked. In a gurgling chocolate stream. The zoo was full of visitors who buzzed like busy be…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! English has V sounds and W sounds. But some languages only have one or the other. If your native language is missing one of these sounds, you need to learn it. Otherwise we won’t know if you want to say “wet” or “vet”. To help you practice, I wrote this poem: Mi…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Let's continue with English reductions where the pronunciation of the word "and" changes to ’n. Here’s another example: “She’s out and about, shopping at the mall,” changes to …”out ’n about”… 11. Our cat wandered off again but she’ll come home by and by. 12. No…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! English is full of reductions. We write “going to” but we say “gonna” for example. The conjunction “and” is often reduced to an /n/ sound. So “hot and cold” becomes “hot ’n’ cold” and so on. Here are ten sentences to practice with. These phrases are sometimes ca…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Regular verbs in English add “ed” to show past tense. So “walk” becomes “walked”, “cook” becomes “cooked”, etc. There are three ways the “ed” can be pronounced. In this podcast we will—again—practice verbs where the past tense ends with the /t/ sound. So in #1, …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Final consonant clusters with "r" What's a consonant cluster? Simple: take the "r" sound, combine it with another consonant like "d", as in the word "yard" and you have a small group or cluster of two consonants. In the sentences below you'll find words like the…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! See the transcript for the text of part 2. Intro & Outro Music: La Pompe Du Trompe by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Support the show Email me: [email protected] You can now support my podcasts and classes: Keep the podcasts coming! Than…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Click on the transcript link to read the text as you listen. Enjoy! Intro & Outro Music: La Pompe Du Trompe by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Support the show Email me: [email protected] You can now support my podcasts and classes: Keep …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Syncope (loss of unstressed vowels after a stressed syllable.) Example “chocolate” [CHAWK-uh-luht] becomes [CHAW-kluht] 1- I like to eat chocolate. [CHAW-kluht] 2- She visits her mother every weekend. [EV-ree] 3- He bought a new camera. [KAM-ruh] 4- We go for a …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! One of the science podcasts I listen to regularly is Astronomy Cast hosted by Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay. In today’s lesson, you’ll hear a short excerpt from Episode 705: Water Worlds - Looking for Life Beyond Earth. First you’ll hear a clip from their podca…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! The phone rings and it's a stranger trying to sell you something. This is part one of a multi-podcast series based on a real script. Have fun! Hi, this is Barry calling from Scam-O-Rama Car Services. I’m calling regarding your 2016 Chevrolet Survivor. How is you…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! This is the first in a series of lessons about connected speech. One of the ways in which we link syllables and words together is with "glides" -- for example a Y sound is added between "be" and "able" so it sounds like "bee yable". Listen to the sentences and y…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Here are some sentences with six-syllable words. 1- In the 1960s people experimented with hallucinogenic drugs. 2- Covid 19 has resulted in the hospitalization of too many people. 3- Please do NOT eat mushrooms which are not identifiable as safe and harmless. 4-…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! Crazy English. We pronounce "ough" in too many ways... I thought microbiology was a tough course, but my professor was a thorough teacher. I studied hard throughout, and in the end I learned what he taught even though it was a challenge. 1- I thought microbiolog…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! 1- Do you think you know what a parachute looks like? 2- Guess what: There are tons of parachute types out there, and you probably don’t know ’em all! 3- Here’s a rundown of several of the normal and not-so-normal types of parachutes… 3a- …that help skydivers (a…

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! What parachute types are there? Do you think you know what a parachute looks like? Guess what: There are tons of parachute types out there, and you probably don’t know ’em all! Here’s a rundown of several of the normal and not-so-normal types of parachutes that …

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks! 1 - Gymnasts have broad, muscular backs. 2 - I worked in the garden all morning and now my back aches. 3 - He broke his back in a terrible car accident. 4 - Have you ever read The Hunchback of Notre Dame? 5 - My dog always stretches his back and yawns when he wa…