To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the fifth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of five long vowel ...

The English language has very interesting sound patterns and pronunciation rules that sets it apart from other languages. These sounds tend to be difficult, if not tiresome for non-native speakers to ...

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of sounds ...

Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

You've probably noticed how speakers of some languages can't seem to tell certain sounds apart. As a result, they can confuse word pairs such as wet and vet, beat and bit, thin and tin, or long and ...

Sound familiar? You have a solid vocabulary, you understand verb tenses, but when you start speaking, something goes wrong.

Read about the longest English word without a vowel, Rhythm. Learn its meaning, origin, pronunciation, and examples of other ...