The Sounds of Spoken English

The powerpoint file from today's class is available to download here. You can also click here for the IOWA Phonetics Project - a fantastic website which helps you explore the sounds of English and shows you animations to help you to pronounce the sounds correctly. If you're put off by the site's American English content, a good dictionary like the online Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary will show you any key differences in the pronunciation of words with a British English accent.

Below you can see the phonemic chart with a list of consonants in context: