DAILY BASIS ENGLISH COURSE

Pronunciation

Phonetics + Letters

Vowels
  • /æ/ (short) • answer ask cat can’t dance fat fast man
  • UK Flag icon/ɑː/ (long) • answer ask can’t dance fast
  • /e/ (short) • bed head red
  • /ɪ/ (short) • busy English it
  • /iː/ (long) • eat key see
  • /ə/ (schwa) unstressed • about above cinema the
  • /ʌ/ (short) stressed • but son / sun under
  • In Americann English, /ə/ and /ʌ/ are not distinguished, but they are in British English.
  • UK Flag icon/ʌ/ (short) • but son / sun under
  • /ɑː/ (long) • calm father palm spa
  • /ɔː/ (short) • dog frog hot job law lot not rob rock raw top thought
  • (In some regions it’s pronounced /ɑː/ )
  • UK Flag icon/ɒ/ (short) • dog frog hot lot rob
  • /ʊ/ (short) • book good wood would
  • /uː/ (long) • blue food student
Diphthongs
  • /aɪ/ • buy my time
  • /aʊ/ • cow bow south
  • /eɪ/ • day make say
  • /ɔɪ/ • boy choice toy
  • /oʊ/ • go show slow
  • UK Flag icon/əʊ/ • go show slow
Rhotic (Vowels + R)
  • /ɑːr/ • car far heart start
  • UK Flag icon/ɑː/ • car far heart start
  • /ɑɪr/ • choir fire inspire liar
  • UK Flag icon/ɑɪə/ • choir fire inspire liar
  • /er/ • air hair pair where
  • UK Flag icon/eə/ • air hair pair where
  • /ɝː/ • bird learn were word world work
  • UK Flag icon/ɜː/ • bird learn were word world work
  • /ɔːr/ • door four north war
  • UK Flag icon/ɔː/ • door four north war
Consonants
  • /p/ (voiceless plosive) • pen map
  • /b/ (voiced plosive) • book table
  • /d/ (voiced plosive) • do did
  • /k/ (voiceless plosive) • cat back
  • /g/ (voiced plosive) • go bag
  • /f/ (voiceless fricative) • fish coffee
  • /v/ (voiced fricative) • very over
  • /θ/ (voiceless dental fricative) • think bath
  • /ð/ (voiced dental fricative) • this mother
  • /s/ (voiceless fricative) • see city
  • /z/ (voiced fricative) • zoo music
  • /ʃ/ (voiceless fricative) • she nation
  • /ʒ/ (voiced fricative) • vision measure
  • /h/ (voiceless glottal fricative) • hat head
  • /m/ (nasal) • man summer
  • /n/ (nasal) • no dinner
  • /ŋ/ (nasal) • sing long
  • /l/ (lateral approximant) • love feel
  • /r/ (approximant) • carry red
  • /t/ (voiceless plosive) • ten top
  • /j/ (approximant) • yes yellow use
  • /w/ (approximant) • we quick
Sounds by letters (Graphemes)