How to understand fast spoken English: the Liverpool accent – Listening Exercise.
How to improve your Listening Skills. Listening Exercise with instructions, and transcript.
Remembering Manchester
A tribute to Manchester and all who visit and call her home. I feel I can't let this week go by without writing something about Manchester.
What are “weak forms” in spoken English?
Can you recognise the words AND and TO when they are used in the weak form in spoken English?
English accents in the North West of England – part 2 Manchester City
Accents in the North West of England - Manchester football fans at Wembley.
English listening – It’s all about the schwa sound – free exercise
Short listening exercise - can you hear which words are replaced by the schwa sound?
English Accents in the North West of England
How to understand fast spoken English in the North West of England. Liverpool and Manchester are only 34 miles apart but the sound of the English spoken in these cities is very very different. Here is a listening exercise.
English Connected Speech Exercise: Weak Form – YOU
The grammatical function words in a sentence are usually unstressed and so sound different to how you might expect. Can you recognise the word - you - when it's pronounced in it's weak unstressed form?
English connected speech exercise – Weak forms – AND
The weak word of the week is the little word AND.
Listening to connected speech in English conversations: The Birthday Surprise
Helen’s Language Home is launching its own English soap opera, The Birthday Surprise tells the story of Julie and her husband Paul, who she has been married to for 15 years, they have two wonderful children who take up a lot of their time and attention. Julie would love...