Tips From Mr Amin: About Pronunciation

Complete series of 39 x 3-minute pronunciation videos now available

Posted on January 1, 2016by Adrian Underhill

Happy New Year!

I wish you all rewarding breakthroughs and discoveries in learning and teaching pronunciation in 2016!

I’m happy to say that the entire series of 39 x 3-minute pronunciation teacher training videos is now available here.

The videos are free to watch. You can check the topics and timing on the list below. They vary in length between 1 and 5 minutes . Once you select the online video you’ll find below it a further written summary of the video content.

This series of videos complements and expands on many of the practical ideas put forward in this blog. The purpose is help teachers and learners to feel, sense, see and know what they are doing with their speech muscles and what they need to do to make new or different sounds, either for their own pronunciation or for teaching others, or both.

These videos in particular complement The Story of Sounds series on this blog, of which 25 episodes have so far been posted.

1. Pronunciation Skills: Introduction to the series 3:41
2. Pronunciation Skills: The Phonemic Chart part 1 1:50
3. Pronunciation Skills: The Phonemic Chart part 2 3:25
4. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels / Diphthongs / Consonants 2:23
5. Pronunciation Skills: The Three levels of Pronunciation 2:16
6. Pronunciation Skills: Pronunciation is Physical 2:50
7. Pronunciation Skills: The ‘muscle buttons’ 1:54
8. Pronunciation Skills: Native & non-native pronunciation teachers 2:31
9. Pronunciation Skills: Helping learners to say unfamiliar sounds 3:15
10. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 1 /i:/ and /u:/ 3:15
11. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 2 /i:/ and /u:/ 3:52
12. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 3 /i:/ and /u:/ 4:27
13. Pronunciation Skills: Using muscle buttons to escape the grip of L1 2:36
14. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 4 /i:/ and /u:/ 4:50
15. Pronunciation skills: Vowels part 5 /ɜ:/ 4:04
16. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 6 /ə/ 1:41
17. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 7 /e/ 3:47
18. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 8 /ɔː/ 4:12
19. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 9 /æ/ 4:24
20. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 10 /ɑː/ 3:31
21. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 11 /ʌ/ 4:41
22. Pronunciation Skills: Vowels part 12 1:32
23. Pronunciation Skills: Mastering the monophthong vowels 4:08
24. Pronunciation Skills: Diphthongs part 1 /eɪ/ and /ǝʊ/ 5:20
25. Pronunciation Skills: Diphthongs part 2 /ɔɪ/ /aɪ/ and /aʊ 3:2
26. Pronunciation Skills: Diphthongs part 3 Exploiting the visibility of diphthongs 3:14

27. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 1 Guided tour of consonants 4:22
28. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 2 /s/ and /z/ 3:46
29. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 3 /ʃ/ and /Ʒ/ 2:52
30. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 4 /f/ and /v/ 2:01
31. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 5 /θ/ 2:05
32. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 6 /ð/ – the voiced ‘th’ sound 1:40
33. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 7 /θ/ /ð/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /Ʒ/ 4:39
34. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 8 /p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ 3:46
35. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 9 /ʧ/ /ʤ/ /k/ /g/ 2:02
36. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 10 The three nasal consonants /m/ /n/ /ŋ/ 3:25
37. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 11 Eleven consonants from just three positions 3:50
38. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 12 The two semi-vowels /w/ and /j/ 3:31
39. Pronunciation Skills: Consonants part 13 /l/ and /r/ 4.35