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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome!

Lecture 1: Introducing the Standard North American Accent

Chapter 2: Introduction to the IPA

Lecture 1: The Phonetic Alphabet (downloadable workbook)

Lecture 2: The alphabet. Wait! It has 19 missing sounds!

Lecture 3: A note on variation

Chapter 3: All of the individual vowel sounds

Lecture 1: Sound 1: iː (spelled e, ee, ea, y, ey, oe, ie, eo)

Lecture 2: Sound 1 practice

Lecture 3: Sound 2: ɪ (spelled i, e, o, u, ui, y, ie)

Lecture 4: Sound 2 practice

Lecture 5: Sound 3: ɛ (spelled e, ea, u, ue, ie, ai, a, eo, ei, ae)

Lecture 6: Sound 3 practice

Lecture 7: Sound 4: æ (spelled a, ai, au, al)

Lecture 8: Sound 4 practice

Lecture 9: Sound 5: æ when followed by n,m, or ŋ

Lecture 10: Sound 5 practice

Lecture 11: Sound 6: ə (spelled a, e, i, o, u)

Lecture 12: Sound 6 practice

Lecture 13: Sound 7: ʊ (spelled o, oo, u, oul)

Lecture 14: Sound 7 practice

Lecture 15: Sound 8: ʌ (spelled u, o, oo, ou)

Lecture 16: Sound 8 practice

Lecture 17: Sound 9: uː (spelled o, oo, ew, ue, u_e, oe, ough, ui, oeu, ou)

Lecture 18: Sound 9 practice

Lecture 19: Sound 10: ɑː (spelled o, aw, a, augh, ough, au)

Lecture 20: Sound 10 practice

Lecture 21: Side note: Another sound you may find

Lecture 22: Sound 11: eɪ (spelled ay, ai, a_e, eigh, aight, er, et, ei, au, ea, ey)

Lecture 23: Sound 11 practice

Lecture 24: Sound 12: aʊ (spelled ow, ou, ough)

Lecture 25: Sound 12 practice

Lecture 26: Sound 13: aɪ (spelled i,y, igh, ie, uy, ye, ai, is, eigh, i_e)

Lecture 27: Sound 13 practice

Lecture 28: Sound 14: oʊ (spelled o, oa, o_e, oe, ow, ough, eau, oo, ew)

Lecture 29: Sound 14 practice

Lecture 30: Sound 15: ɔɪ (spelled oi, oy)

Lecture 31: Sound 15 practice

Lecture 32: The Vowel Chart

Chapter 4: The vowels that change when mixed with R

Lecture 1: Introduction to the R-controlled vowel sounds

Lecture 2: Sound 16: ɝ and ɚ (spelled er, ir, ur, ure, ear, ere, or, our, yr)

Lecture 3: Sound 16 practice

Lecture 4: Sound 17: ɔːr (spelled or, ore, oor, oar, our, ar)

Lecture 5: Sound 17 practice

Lecture 6: Sound 18: er or ɛr (spelled air, are, ear, ere, eir, ayer, aer, er, ar)

Lecture 7: Sound 18 practice

Lecture 8: Sound 19: ɪr (spelled ear, eer, ere, ier, ir)

Lecture 9: Sound 19 practice

Lecture 10: Sound 20: ɑːr (spelled ar, are)

Lecture 11: Sound 20 practice

Lecture 12: Sound 21 ʊr can be avoided

Lecture 13: Recap of the R-controlled vowels

Chapter 5: The consonants

Lecture 1: Sound 22: r (spelled r, rr, wr, rh)

Lecture 2: Sound 22 practice

Lecture 3: Sound 23: l (spelled l, ll)

Lecture 4: Sound 23 practice

Lecture 5: Sound 24: j (spelled y, i, j, *u)

Lecture 6: Sound 24 practice

Lecture 7: Sound 25: w (spelled w, wh, u, o)

Lecture 8: Sound 25: w practice

Lecture 9: Sound 26: h (spelled h, wh)

Lecture 10: Sound 26 practice

Lecture 11: Sound 27: m (spelled m, mm, mb, mn, lm)

Lecture 12: Sound 27 practice

Lecture 13: Sound 28: n (spelled n, nn, kn, gn, pn)

Lecture 14: Sound 28 practice

Lecture 15: Sound 29: ŋ (spelled ng, n, ngue)

Lecture 16: Sound 29 practice

Lecture 17: Sound 30/31: p and b (spelled p, pp / b, bb)

Lecture 18: Sound 30/31 practice

Lecture 19: Sound 32/33: f and v (spelled f, ff, ph, gh, lf/ v, f, ph, ve)

Lecture 20: Sound 32/33 practice

Lecture 21: Sound 34/35: t and d (spelled t, tt, th, ed/ d, dd, ed)

Lecture 22: Sound 34/35 practice

Lecture 23: Sound 36/37: k and g (spelled k, c, ch, cc, lk, q, ck, x/ g, gg, gh, gu, gue)

Lecture 24: Sound 36/37 practice

Lecture 25: Sound 38/39: ʧ and ʤ (spelled ch, tch, tu, ti, te/ j, ge, g, dge, di, du, gg)

Lecture 26: Sound 38/39 practice

Lecture 27: Sound 40/41: s and z (spelled s, ss, c, sc, ps, ce, se/ z, zz, s, ss, x, ze, se)

Lecture 28: Sound 40/41 practice

Lecture 29: Sound 42/43: ʃ and ʒ (spelled sh, ce, s, ci, si, ch, sci, ti/ s, si, z)

Lecture 30: Sound 42/43 practice

Lecture 31: Sound 44/45: θ and ð (spelled th / th)

Lecture 32: Sound 44/45 practice

Chapter 6: CONGRATULATIONS!

Lecture 1: Thank You