Natural Fluency: English Pronunciation

Chapter 5. Basic Vowels 

Ch5-1: /a/ 

Ch5-2: /ɔ/ 

Ch5-3: /ʌ/ 

Ch5-4: /e/ 

Ch5-5: /ɪ/ 

Ch5-6: /ʊ/ 

Ch6-1: /æ/ 

Ch6-2: /i/ 

Ch6-3: /u/ 

Chapter 7. Diphthongs  

Ch7-1: /aɪ/ 

Ch7-2: /aʊ/ 

Ch7-3: /ɔɪ / 

Ch7-4: /oʊ/ 

Ch7-5: /eɪ/ 

Ch8-1: /ar/ 

Ch8-2: /ɔr/ 

Ch8-3: /ʌr/ 

Ch8-4: /er/ 

Ch8-5: /ɪr/ 

Ch8-6: /ʊr/ 

Ch10-1: /g/ 

Ch10-2: /k/ 

Ch10-3: /h/ 

Ch10-4: /ŋ/ 

Chapter 11.Alveolar Consonants 

Ch11-1: /d/ 

Ch11-2: /t/ 

Ch11-3: /n/ 

Ch11-4: /l/ 

Ch12-1: /b/ 

Ch12-2: /p/ 

Ch12-3: /m/ 

Chapter 13. Special English Consonants 1 

Ch13-1: /r/ 

Ch13-2: /ð/ 

Ch13-3: /θ/ 

Ch13-4: /v/ 

Ch13-5: /f/ 

Ch13-6: /z/ 

Ch13-7: /s/ 

Ch14-1: /ʒ/ 

Ch14-2: /ʃ/ 

Ch14-3: /dʒ/ 

Ch14-4: /tʃ/ 

Ch14-5: /j/ 

Ch14-6: /w/ 

Chapter 15: Connecting Consonants 

Ch15-1: Connecting Continuant Consonants 

Ch15-2: Linking Continuant Consonants to Stop Consonants 

Ch15-3: Transitions from Stop to Continuant Consonants 

Ch15-4: Linking Between Two Stop Consonants 

Chapter 19. Reverse Pronunciation Linking 

Ch19-1: “Consonant + Vowel” Linking 

Ch19-2: “Consonant + Vowel + Consonant” Linking 

Ch19-3: Linking Two or Three Words 

Ch19-4: Connecting Four or More Words 

Chapter 20. Connecting Thought Through Compression and Relaxation 

Ch20-1: Compression and Relaxation

Chapter 21. Confusing Short Vowels with Long Vowels 

Ch21-1: How Semivowels /j/ and /w/ Can Cause Vowel Confusion 

Ch21-2: Words Ending with Unstressed /-i/  

Ch21-3: Words Ending with Unstressed /-u/ 

Ch21-4: Stressed /ɪ/ vs. Long /i/ 

Ch21-5: Stressed /ʊ/ vs. Long /u/ 

Ch22-1: Compressing Multi-Syllable Vowels into One Diphthong 

Ch22-2: /t+j/, /d+j/, /s+j/, and /z+j/ Linking 

Ch22-3: Flap Sound

Ch23-1: When /l/ Comes Before Bilabial Consonants 

Ch23-2: Glottal Stops 

Ch23-3: Words Where the /l/ Sound Is Commonly Omitted 

Ch23-4: Weakening and Omission of Unstressed Function Words 

Ch23-5: Avoid Automatically Changing All Unstressed Vowels to /ə/