Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English ...

Learning English can be tricky when words sound the same but mean completely different things. In this video, Claire explains the most confusing homophones and shows how to use them correctly. You’ll ...

Pronunciation is the way that people make sounds to form words. Every time you make a sound, you push air past your tongue, lips, and teeth and then move the air through your mouth. The sounds you ...

Skwerl, a short film by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston, attempts to show the English language through the ears of non-English speakers. Throughout the film you can make out certain words you know, ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...

Rhode Island School of Design student Yangyang Ding has created a series of metal instruments to help Mandarin speakers pronounce difficult English sounds. Yangyang Ding's pronunciation tools help ...

A word to all radio announcers of classical music: There is no accent in Claude Debussy's name. Thus, there is no reason to pronounce it Débussy. The e is plain, a sort of "uh" sound, as it is in the ...

Visitors expecting to hear the Queen’s English spoken on the streets of London in 50 years may need to "fink" again. By 2066, linguists are predicting that the "th" sound will vanish completely in the ...