In this webinar, we will mainly focus on the five long simple vowels or monophthongs. But during certain exercises, I will also refer to elements that we will cover in more detail in future webinars. For example, I might ask you to listen out for certain consonant sounds. Or draw your attention t...

Welcome to the second webinar in which we will cover the seven short simple vowels or monophthongs.

These sounds are a little trickier than the five sounds we learned last time because as students try to listen to themselves and to get them right, there is a temptation to stretch them. This doe...

In this webinar, we will use the 12 vowel sounds that you have learned so far to create the remaining 13 compound vowels, which are the eight diphthongs, or vowels made up of two sounds, and the five triphthongs, or vowels made up of three parts.

Simply put, this is where things start to get re...

Consonant sounds are made in many different ways but many speakers go wrong because they do not use their voice when they should use their voice.

Consonant sounds can be voiced, as in Z. You can hear my voice, can't you? Or consonant sounds can be unvoiced, as in S. You just hear the hissing so...