You have studied twenty episodes of sounds, from rhythm (Episode 92) to weak words (Episode 111). The danger now is that each sound stays in its own box. In real talk at home, everything happens at once: stress, schwa, flap T and linking in one short sentence. In this episode: • Rhythm, stress and melody • Vowels • Consonants • Linking and reductions • The 25-item test • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: CATS CHASE MICE — content words get the beats (Episode 92) PHO-tuh-graf, fuh-TAH-gruh-fee — stress moves in word families (Episode 93) REC-erd (noun), ri-CORD (verb) — noun first, verb second I didn't SAY she took it — focus changes meaning (Episode 94) Are you HUNG-ry? — rising voice for yes/no questions (Episode 95) Where's the REMOTE? — falling voice for wh-questions ship / sheep, full / fool — short versus long vowels (Episode 97) can, back, family — the flat American A (Episode 98) bake, cold, light, towel, toys — gliding vowels (Episode 99) car, bird, world (WURLD) — the American R is always said after a vowel (Episode 100) button (BUH-uhn), not yet — stop T, the T is held (Episode 102) twenty (TWEN-ee), interview (IN-er-vyoo) — T dropped after N (Episode 103) think, this, mother — TH, tongue between the teeth (Episode 104) lamp, feel, milk — light L and dark L (Episode 105) very well, his and hiss — V and W, Z and S (Episode 106) dishes (DISH-iz), played (PLAYD), wanted (WAN-id) — endings (Episode 107) texts (TEKS), months (MUNTS) — clusters simplified (Episode 108) an_apple, turn_off — consonant links to vowel (Episode 109) Season 2 · Real American English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — accent, everyday grammar, prepositions, articles, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.