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London Overground pronunciations – Improve Your Accent Learn how to pronounce the new London Overground line names.

How to pronounce London Overground stations 🚊 Master these tricky names:

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👫First names are tricky to pronounce in English. Most dictionaries don't list names, but my FREE Text to IPA tool does! Sign up for a free course account and you'll find the tool in the sidebar https://course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

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Improve Your Accent Learn British English pronunciation with expert accent coach Luke Nicholson.

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Get my FREE intonation guide – Improve Your Accent Start speaking English more naturally with my free English intonation guide. Master the key pitch patterns in English.

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➕ Plural endings are pronounced differently depending on the word. Most dictionaries don't show you this, but my FREE Text to IPA tool does! Sign up for a free course account and you'll find the tool in the sidebar https://course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

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TikTok - Make Your Day

Congratulations to Max Klymenko for winning TikTok Creator of the Year! I made a video with him last year

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➕ Plural endings are pronounced differently depending on the word. Most dictionaries don't show you this, but my FREE Text to IPA tool does! Sign up for a free course account and you'll find the tool in the sidebar https://course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

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Do people ever mispronounce your name? – Improve Your Accent Why can't people pronounce your name and how can you help others? Here are some tricky names to pronounce: Hugh, Graham, Phoebe...

Do people ever mispronounce your name?

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📍Place names are tricky to pronounce – but now you can find out the pronunciation instantly with my FREE Text to IPA tool! Sign up for a free course account and you'll find the tool in the sidebar https://course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

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British English pronunciation course – Improve Your Accent Speak clearly and confidently. This British Council award-nominated pronunciation course helps you master vowels, consonants, rhythm and intonation.

💬 "I gained confidence with the help of Improve Your Accent. I am enormously grateful to Luke for making my journey more comfortable. Thank you!!!" – Naz, Kazakhstan
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Professor de sotaque britânico ensina a pronunciar o nome de Archie, bebê de Meghan e Harry; veja VÍDEO Para inglês ouvir: especialista Luke Nicholson explica como falar corretamente o nome de Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, novo bebê da família real britânica.

A Brazilian news site asked me to teach them how to pronounce a royal name 👑

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✨ Check pronunciation instantly and learn faster with my FREE Text to IPA tool! Type words and watch the phonetic symbols appear. Sign up for a free course account and you'll find the tool in the sidebar https://course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

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Lingthusiasm - Lingthusiasm Episode 109: On the nose - How the... Lingthusiasm Episode 109: On the nose - How the nose shapes language We often invoke the idea of language by showing the mouth or the hands. But the nose is important to both signed and spoken languages: it can be a resonating chamber that air can get shaped by, as well as a salient location for the hand to be in contact with. In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the nose! We talk about why noses are so popular cross-linguistically (seriously, nasals are in 98% of the world’s languages), what the nose looks like inside (it’s bigger than you think!), and increasingly cursed methods that linguists have tried to use to see inside the nose (from giving yourself the worst headache to, yes, sticking earbuds up your nostrils). We also share our favourite obscure nose-related idioms, map the surprisingly large distribution of the “cock-a-snook” gesture, and try to pin down why the nose feels like an intrinsically funny part of the body. Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here. Announcements: We’re 9 years old! For our anniversary, we’re hope you could leave us a rating our review on your favourite podcast app to help people who encounter the show want to click “play” for the first time: we’ll read out a few of our favourite reviews at the end of the show over the next year so this could be your words! People have responded super enthusiastically to the jazzed up version of our logo that we sent to patrons earlier this year! So we’ve now made this design available on some very cute merch. Wear your Lingthusiasm fandom on a shirt or a mug or a notebook to help spot fellow linguistics nerds! We’ve also made a new greeting card design that says {Merry/marry/Mary} Holidays! Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation. In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about our favourite words ending in nym! We talk about We talk about how there are so many kinds of nym words that are weirder and wackier than classic synonyms and antonyms, how even synonyms and antonyms aren’t quite as straightforward as they seem, and why retronyms make people mad but are Gretchen’s absolute favourite. Plus: a tiny quiz segment on our favourite obscure and cool-sounding nyms!. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 100+ other bonus episodes. You’ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds. Here are the links mentioned in the episode: Wikipedia entry for ‘N400 (neuroscience)’ The Free Dictionary entry for 'Idioms - Nose’ 'Cross-Cultural Cognitive Motivation Of English And Romanian Nose Idioms. A Contrastive Approach’ by Ana-Maria Trantescu 'Cultures think alike and unlike: A cognitive study of Arabic and English body parts idioms’ by T.M. Bataineh, & K. A. Al-Shaikhli WALS entry Feature 18A: Absence of Common Consonants Wikipedia entry for 'Yele language’ Wikipedia entry for 'Nasal vowel’ WALS entry for Feature 10A: Vowel Nasalization Kevin B. McGowan Wikipeda entry for 'Nasal cycles’ Etymonline entry for 'thrill’ 'Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages’ by Blasi et al. Nez en LSF (langue des signes française) video ('Nose’ in LSF) Lingthusiasm episode ’When nothing means something’ Lingthusiasm episode ’R and R-like sounds - Rhoticity’ For more on the nose and scent, check out our episode ’Smell words, both real and invented’ You can listen to this episode via Lingthusiasm.com, Soundcloud, RSS, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download an mp3 via the Soundcloud page for offline listening. To receive an email whenever a new episode drops, sign up for the Lingthusiasm mailing list. You can help keep Lingthusiasm ad-free, get access to bonus content, and more perks by supporting us on Patreon. Lingthusiasm is on Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, and Tumblr. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com Gretchen is on Bluesky as @GretchenMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic. Lauren is on Bluesky as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo. Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk, and our technical editor is Leah Velleman. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles. This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

Really good podcast on how the nose shapes language, including an explanation of one of the best phonetic terms: rhinoglottophilia!

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I recently heard such strong affrication for utterance-final [d] in the word "good" that it almost sounded like "goods".

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✨ Check pronunciation instantly and learn faster with my FREE Text to IPA tool! Type words and watch the phonetic symbols appear. Sign up for a free course account and you'll find the tool in the sidebar https://course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

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English Pronunciation Lessons – Improve Your Accent Lessons to Improve Your English Pronunciation. "Accent Reduction" taught by the experts. Courses 100% tailored to your needs.

Are people asking you to repeat? Improve your pronunciation and speak English clearly with expert help

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A screenshot from my vowel masterclass earlier. Thanks to everyone who came!

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Improve Your Accent Learn British English pronunciation with expert accent coach Luke Nicholson.

💬 "This course has been very helpful in boosting my confidence when speaking English. The lessons are well-structured, and the explanations cover exactly what I was looking for." – Luiz, Portuguese speaker
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I heard an Egyptian Arabic speaker pronounce the English word for a type of bird as [ˈbɪgɪn]. Can you guess what word he intended to say? (Clue: Egyptian Arabic speakers may mix up [p]–[b] and [ʤ]–[g] in English.)

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844. Improve Your Pronunciation with Luke Nicholson - Accent Coach

A conversation with accent coach Luke Nicholson, including lots of insights, advice and conclusions about improving your pronunciation in English.👉 Episode ... 844. Improve Your Pronunciation with Luke Nicholson - Accent Coach

Chatting about Pronunciation on Luke's English Podcast 🎙️ Listen here:

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I heard an interesting pronunciation from an Australian English speaker: she pronounced "disdain" as [dɪsˈteɪn] (with aspirated [t]) rather than [dɪsˈdeɪn]. Have you heard something similar before?

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Improve Your Accent Learn British English pronunciation with expert accent coach Luke Nicholson.

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Online Classroom – Improve Your Accent If you want 1:1 coaching with me / ask a pronunciation question, then join my online classroom sessions. They are free as part of my online course.

🔴 If you want to attend my live English Vowel Masterclass series, you have to join before 1st November! Learn how to create and distinguish different vowels, how consonants affect vowel length, and how to fix common issues

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Get my FREE vowel guide – Improve Your Accent Can't make the difference between "sheep" and "ship"? Get my free vowel guide and improve your British English pronunciation. Speak English more clearly and confidently.

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British English pronunciation course – Improve Your Accent Speak clearly and confidently. This British Council award-nominated pronunciation course helps you master vowels, consonants, rhythm and intonation.

💬 "I like this pronunciation course a lot. It is well structured and Luke's webinars help you during the process of study." – Vladislav, Russian speaker
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Why Do Speakers of Chinese Languages Have An Accent In English? | Improve Your Accent

Understand why native speakers of Chinese languages have a Chinese accent when speaking English with the help of Jackie Chan. Get my FREE English Pronunciati... Why Do Speakers of Chinese Languages Have An Accent In English? | Improve Your Accent

Are you a Chinese language speaker? Discover the differences between English and Chinese language accents here:

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Online Classroom – Improve Your Accent If you want 1:1 coaching with me / ask a pronunciation question, then join my online classroom sessions. They are free as part of my online course.

🎯 Join my course before 1st November to attend my live English Vowel Masterclass series! More info & dates

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funetics Putting the fun in phonetics.

What are "Standard" accents anyway? Read my thoughts here:

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