RP vs SSB vs GB
RP (Received Pronunciation) vs SSB (Standard Southern British) vs GB (General British) As pronunciation teachers, we are often asked about ...
NEW VIDEO: Voiced Glottal Fricative [ɦ] – Pronunciation Studio
The phoneme /h/ is normally taught in English as a voiceless glottal fricative, the sound you make when steaming up ...
The UnhappY Vowel Sounds – Pronunciation Studio
The pronunciation of -Y endings is strange for 2 reasons:The mouth position has changed from [ɪ] in RP to [i] ...
The OH Vowel – Pronunciation: A Complete Guide
The OH Vowel Pronunciation plays a crucial role in effective communication, and one vowel sound that often presents a challenge ...
SHIIIIP or SHeeP? Is one really longer?
Last week I asked Pronunciation Studio’s Instagram followers whether they consider SHIP or SHEEP to be longer, or whether they ...
British English IPA Variations
Above are British English transcriptions from Cambridge (blue) and Oxford (orange) dictionaries.The words are the same, the accent is the ...
Upper Received Pronunciation | How to Speak Posh
Upper RP is a British English accent that is now only really spoken by ageing aristocrats. These days it sounds ...
King Charles’ Accent – Pronunciation Studio
.fusion-imageframe.imageframe-3{ margin-top : 50px;margin-right : 10%;margin-bottom : 20px;}King Charles’ Accent https://media.pronunciationstudio.com/2022/10/king-charles-accent2.mp3The UK has a new monarch, King Charles III and ...
Brummie – The Accent From Birmingham – Pronunciation Studio
Brummie is the accent found in the UK’s second biggest city – Birmingham. It has a strange image among English ...
2021 – Words of the Year – Pronunciation Studio
In an effort to avoid possibly discriminatory phrases like “The Kent Variant” or “The Indian Variant”, 2021 saw the introduction ...
The Queen’s English Accent
The Queen’s English Accent .fusion-imageframe.imageframe-32{ margin-top : 0px;}https://media.pronunciationstudio.com/2021/12/The-Queens-English-Accent.mp3The Queen’s English is probably the most famous English accent in the world, ...
10 Words of 2020 (and how to pronounce them)
https://media.pronunciationstudio.com/2020/12/10-words-2020-pronunciation.mp3An old Germanic word that had gone out of fashion in British English, 2020 saw the revival of FURLOUGH. Its ...
MLE (Multicultural London English) – the Urban Accent – Pronunciation Studio
Multicultural London English – the Urban English AccentA Pronunciation Guide by Pronunciation Studio https://media.pronunciationstudio.com/2020/06/Multicultural-London-English-Introduction.mp3Multicultural London English (MLE) is the sound ...
We’re all in this together – today 16.00 Argentina time
Title: We’re All In This Together – Adrian UnderhillTime: June 6, 2020 16:00 Buenos Aires, GeorgetownDuration: 60 minutes Join Zoom ...
Coronavirus: a Pronunciation Guide – Pronunciation Studio
https://media.pronunciationstudio.com/2020/04/coronavirus-pronunciation-guide.mp3Coronavirus /kəˈrəʊnəˌvʌɪrəs/ is the word on everybody’s lips at the moment. It’s an example in English pronunciation of how the vowel ...
WritingCity Fourth Graders Improved 11.2% ON PARCC Writing Scores
The original of this article is available on the WritingCity website! WritingCity is an elementary writing program which has been ...
Our Phonics Patent | VocabularySpellingCity
Even as we rolled out SpellingCity, teachers and literacy coaches asked us to do more with helping students with sounds ...
Words That Don’t Mean What They Say – Idioms!
Tim Rasinski is a renowned professor of literacy education whose research on reading fluency and word study has made him a ...
Sing a Song to Reading
Tim Rasinski is a renowned professor of literacy education whose research on reading fluency and word study has made him a ...
Prosody – The Other Side of Fluency
Tim Rasinski is a renowned professor of literacy education whose research on reading fluency and word study has made him a ...
Making Repeated Readings Real | VocabularySpellingCity
Tim Rasinski is a renowned professor of literacy education whose research on reading fluency and word study has made him a ...
Developing Automatic Word Recognition | VocabularySpellingCity
Tim Rasinski is a renowned professor of literacy education whose research on reading fluency and word study has made him a ...