Polishing Your Pronunciation: Tackling Subtle Sounds
If your English is grammatically solid but listeners still ask you to repeat yourself, the problem is almost always one of three things: a vowel contrast your first language doesn’t make, a consonant your mouth wasn’t trained to produce, or the way English glues words together when people actually speak it. Grammar drills won’t fix any of those. This post walks through the specific sounds and patterns that trip up most learners, with drills you can do without a teacher. ...