You can practise single sounds for weeks and still feel that something is not quite British. Often the reason is not one sound but the whole position of your mouth. Every language has a home position for the lips, jaw and tongue, called a mouth posture or articulatory setting. In this episode: • What mouth posture means • The british setting: jaw, lips and tongue • Mirror drills • Switching from your first-language setting • How posture makes other sounds easier • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: Mouth posture — the resting shape of your lips, jaw and tongue while you speak. A relaxed jaw — let the jaw hang loose, slightly open, never clenched. Rounded lips for LOT and THOUGHT — the lips round for hot and caught. Morning (MAW-ning) — the lips round on MAW. Mum (MUM) — the jaw drops a little, the lips stay relaxed. Lot (LOT) — open the jaw, round the lips a little. Episode 11 teaches this vowel. Hot water (HOT-WAW-tuh) — round for HOT, round more for WAW. Thought (THAWT) — lips rounder and pushed slightly forward. Episode 11 again. Caught the bus (KAWT-thuh-BUS) — rounded on KAWT, relaxed on the. Phone home (FOHN-HOHM) — the same glide twice. Can't (KAHNT) — the same open, back vowel. Tea (TEE) — notice the lips spread only a little, not a big smile. The long, open BATH vowel — easier with a low, back tongue. Episode 10. LOT and THOUGHT — easier with lips ready to round. Episode 11. The GOAT glide — easier when lips start relaxed. Episode 12. Real British English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — modern British accent, everyday grammar, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, he/she/it for things, 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.