This is a new version of the /a/ and /æ/ episode from last year. You can find the minimal pairs and the sentences from this podcast by clicking on thi...

I should apologize for not making any new shows...it's been almost 10 months! This show is an overview of my plans for this year's podcasts. **Reminde...

This is the third in a series of four podcast episodes about reduced forms in English. In this podcast, we look at the pronouns "he," "him," "his," "h...

"Rokko Oroshi" is the official "fight song" of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. The song was written a long time ago, but only recently in the past t...

This is the second of four podcast episodes about "reduced forms." In the previous episode, we practiced saying verbs phrases such as "have to," "got ...

This podcast is the first of a series of four podcasts designed to help learners of English better understand spoken, fast English. English is a "stre...

This is the number three song sung by people every day in the U.S. (after the Star Spangled Banner and "Happy Birthday"!). The words and music were wr...

The schwa is normally represented in the IPA symbol inventory as an upside-down backwards "e." It occurs in English in unstressed syllables, either in...

This is a famous "English manzai" routine from the 1930s and 1940s. While the English is a little fast, the words are fairly easy, and the comedians s...

This episode covers the most changeable of the English vowels: the "two 'o's" and the "two 'u's." I speak Northeastern North American English; I canno...