Say you’re looking up the Möbius strip on Wikipedia, and you wonder how it’s pronounced. Wikipedia only shows some elaborate pronunciation guide written in the International Phonetic Alphabet. You ...

This is the fifth of eight voiceless consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that ...

Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...

We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...

Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English — from short and long vowels to the subtle sounds that make your accent ...