The most common sound when we make in English is called the Schwa. It represents up to 15% of our utterances. However, so few people have heard of it. It’s the sound we make when we say ‘cup of tea’, and really say ‘cuppa tea’. It’s this little ‘uh’ sound we use in this example […]
Fun ESL Tongue Twisters Every language has odd irregularities, however English has some especially strange homonyms that occur when the verb and noun are the spelled the same, which makes pronunciation challenging for ESL learners. Try to get your tongue around these examples of English pronunciation with some fun tongue twisters. 1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 2. The farm
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Did you K-now that the silent K in words like K-nee and K-nickK-nack was actually pronounced in Old English. For some reason however, people could not get the K-nack of pronouncing the K as well as the N. So the K sound got K-nocked off. People got all K-notted up and tongue tied when they