Cold gold - the /k/ and /g/ sounds in English
11/01/21 • 20 min
Welcome back to season 3 of English Sound Building! Today, we're looking at another voiceless and voiced consonant pair: /k/ and /g/. We'll practise the sounds in individual words, in some minimal pairs, and in sentences.
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Welcome back to season 3 of English Sound Building! Today, we're looking at another voiceless and voiced consonant pair: /k/ and /g/. We'll practise the sounds in individual words, in some minimal pairs, and in sentences.
Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.
The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon.
Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki! I'm officially fully booked at the moment, but I may be able to make an exception for podcast listeners, so please let me know!
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Gotta go! Contrasting /ɒ/ and /əʊ/ in English
Welcome to season 3 of English Sound Building! Today, we're picking up on the /ɒ/ sound from last week, and contrasting it with the diphthong /əʊ/. Have fun!
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Welcome to season 3 of English Sound Building! Today, we're looking at just one sound, the nasal consonant /ŋ/.
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English Sound Building - British Pronunciation - Cold gold - the /k/ and /g/ sounds in English
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This week we’re looking at another voiceless/ voiced consonant sound pair, /k/ and /g/. As with most consonant sounds, you’ll find this most difficult if you don’t have these sounds in your first language. However, even if you do, you may still find that you make them ever so slightly differently, that you find them trickier in certain combinations with other sounds, or – as we’ve found before – that you devoice the /g/ especially towards the ends of words.
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