575 – Liaison and Linking Part 2

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Today, I’d like to continue our discussion about English pronunciation, specifically liaison and linking. We took a look at this in a general way two weeks ago in Episode 573. Today, I’d like take you a little deeper into this. In this lesson, we’re going to look at what …

573 – Liaison and Linking

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS One of the interesting aspects of English, especially American English, is that when we speak we tend to connect the words in each sentence. Quite often the end of one-word connects or links to the beginning of the next word. A lot of English teachers call this liaison and …

551 – Stress and Intonation

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Hey guys it’s Michael here from Happy English and I am back with another podcast English lesson. I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. Remember, wearing a mask and social distancing still makes sense. But you knew that, right? Well, for today’s English lesson let’s take a …

500 – Do You vs. Did You Natural Pronunciation

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Hey guys it’s Michael here. This is episode 500. The first episode of the Happy English podcast was published on May 31, 2014. Since that time, we’ve covered a lot of different idioms, phrasal verbs, grammar points, and so on. It’s been quite an amazing journey up till this …

418 – Natural Pronunciation of I’m, Our, & You

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Sometimes English learners have trouble understanding naturally spoken English. One of the reasons for this how native English speaker pronounce certain words. Especially in American English, we prefer to have a smooth air flow between words when we speak. Certain sounds, when pronounced as written, cause the air flow …

399 – T Sounds Like D Pronunciation Lesson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSThe letter “T” tends to have a bit of a different sound in spoken English when it appears unstressed in the middle of a word. This is especially true when we have words with two “T’s” together in the middle. For example, the word little is spelled with two T’s …

385 – Consonant V Pronunciation Lesson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS[/container][/content_band] A lot of English learners have trouble pronouncing the V and W consonant sounds, so for today’s English lesson, let’s have a look at how to pronounce the V consonant sound and tomorrow, we’ll look at how to pronounce W. Here are the example sentences. To get the details …