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

In this lesson Julia starts by doing a mindful moment Rainbow Breathing exercise and discusses some learning strategies to use in school. Then using letter cards she sings to review the letter sounds ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. Vowel-less words, like srsly, thx, k, ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...

In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...