• Season 5 recap - Burger burglars and other tongue twisters
    Dec 5 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re reviewing all the sounds from season 5, and many others too, with ten tongue twisters.

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    13 min
  • Luxury and Tranquility - words with /r/ and /l/
    Nov 28 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re looking at words with both ‘l’ and ‘r’.

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    9 min
  • Completely problematic - clusters with /l/
    Nov 21 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, reviewing a lot of sounds in tricky clusters with /l/.

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    13 min
  • Probably brilliant - tricky clusters with /r/
    Nov 14 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re reviewing /r/, and a lot of other consonant sounds besides, to look at clusters with /r/.

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    22 min
  • Hey, hey, hey! The diphthong /eɪ/ in English
    Nov 7 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re practising the diphthong /eɪ/.

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    15 min
  • Her hair - contrasting /ɜː/ and /eə/ in English
    Oct 31 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re following on from last week, and contrasting two sounds we’ve looked at before, but not in relation to each other: /ɜ:/ and /eə/.

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    14 min
  • Very varied - contrasting /e/ and /eə/ in English
    Oct 24 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re contrasting two sounds we’ve looked at before, but not in relation to each other: /e/ and /eə/.

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    12 min
  • Four or five - intrusive /r/ in English
    Oct 17 2022

    Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re back with connected speech and another intrusive sound: intrusive /r/. Have fun! 

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    19 min