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In the American English Pronunciation Podcast, Mandy offers weekly lessons covering the most common and difficult English pronunciation issues for non-native English speakers and ESL students everywhere. Formal and informal pronunciation patterns are discussed. Learn about the pronunciations you are actually hearing in conversational English, not just perfect "dictionary pronunciation."
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Top Tracks
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#1: The English th sounds
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#2: The English t sound and d sound
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#3: The English s sound and z sound
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#4: The American English r sound
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#5: The American English r sound and l sound
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#6: The American English r-controlled vowels
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#7: The English w sound and y sound
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#8: The American English long vowel sounds
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#9: The American English short vowel sounds
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#10: The American English oo sound and u (as in put)
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#11: The American English aw sound, oi sound, and ow sound
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#12: The American English common contractions
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#13: The American English informal contractions
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#16: Reduced Prounouns: he, him, her, them
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#14: Linking consonant sounds
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Newer still episode 1
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#19: The English -ed ending pronunciation
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#15: Linking vowel sounds
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#18: The English f sound and v sound
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#20: The Rhythm Rule and Sentence Stress
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#17: The English sh sound and zh sound
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#21: The Rhythm Rule and Sentence Stress, continued
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#40: been, not bean
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#75: The differences between can and can't
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#102: Russian/Ukrainian Special Episode
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#47: could, should, and would
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#46: th+r=difficult sound combination
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#22: Review all the sounds covered so far
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#105: Pronouncing "though," "thought," "through," and "thorough"
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Special episode: Japanese speakers of English as a Second Language
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#55: Introduction to intonation and high pitch words
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#116: Using "ain't"
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#100: A Hundred/One Hundred
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#81: Comparing the long o and ow sound
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#24: English ch sound and j sound
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#25: English ng sound, beginning nasal sounds
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#73: Reducing the word "of" to the schwa sound
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#41: the silent b in the -mb spelling
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#101: Subtle oddities of the word 'subtle'
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#109: s sound, z sound, sh sound, and zh sound; compare and contrast
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#74: Are the words for and four pronounced the same?
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#97: The transition from 'used to' to 'useta'
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#91: iPad/iPod, the world's newest short a/short o minimal pair
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#23: English p sound and b sound
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#28: English h sound
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#30: 2-syllable word stress and -tion/-sion syllable stress
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#43: about the words world and word
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#42 VIDEO 1 review long and short vowels, long and short a
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#27: English g sound and k sound
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#26: English m sound and n sound
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