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English Learning for Curious Minds

Welcome to the American English Pronunciation Guide. My name is Trevor Kafka, and I am your host.

There are many different varieties of American English. I was born and raised in New York, which has given me General American English pronunciation. The English that I speak has 15 vowel sounds. 

Please view the transcript for help while listening.

Today, we will talk about the vowel sound number 2 of 15: /eɪ/ grey day. This vowel is what we call a diphthong, meaning that it’s really two vowel sounds smooshed together as one. The mouth begins very open when the sound begins, but then turns into a smile as the teeth come together.

Listen to me saying this sound and repeat: /eɪ/, /eɪ/, /eɪ/

Listen to and repeat the following single-syllable words:
gray
day
pain
whale
waste
straight
tail
wait
shade

Listen to and repeat the following multiple-syllable words:
chamber
embrace
greatest
labor
vacation
translate
Canadian
information

Listen to and repeat the following sentences:
The way you say “gray” makes my day quite okay.
I embrace the shade to stay out of the sun’s rays.
The greatest of Canadian vacations have no space for rain.

I would like to thank Shirley Thompson and Karen Taylor for their work in developing the set of key phrases that I use with each vowel, such as /æ/ black cat, /eɪ/ grey day, etc. 

📢 American English Pronunciation Guide

Episode 2 - Vowels: /eɪ/ gray day (2 of 15)

Привет!

В этом выпуске подкаста я вам расскажу историю с использованием дательного падежа. Нас ждет только практика!

Приятного прослушивания!

Speak fluent Russian A1-A2

Выпуск 38. Дательный падеж в контексте / The Dative case in context

How to make a good partner
좋은 파트너를 만드는 방법


NANAのにほんごpodcast 

#58 いいパートナーの作り方

What do you do on Saturday？ Shopping？Sleeping？Watching movie？Let's learn some words through the story. -
我的星期六
昨天是星期六，上午我和爸爸、妈妈去商店买东西，我们买了衣服、菜、水果、也买了八个杯子，杯子很小很漂亮。我很喜欢。商店前面有一个宠物医院，很多人带着小狗去看医生。我的同学也在那儿，我问他，这是你的小狗吗？我的同学说“是的，它叫钱钱，它昨天和今天不吃也不喝，我希望钱钱好起来。”
下午下雨了，我和爸爸、妈妈在家里。爸爸看书，妈妈看电视，我学习汉语。我喜欢学汉语，你呢？

Wǒ de Xīngqī liù 
Zuótiān shì Xīngqī liù ， Shàngwǔ wǒ hé Bàba 、 Māma qù Shāngdiàn mǎi dōngxi。 Wǒmen mǎi le Yīfu 、 cài 、 shuǐguǒ 、 yě mǎi le bā gè bēizi ， bēi zi hěn xiǎo hěn piàoliang 。 Wǒ hěn xǐhuan 。 Shāngdiàn qiánmian yǒu yí gè Chǒngwù Yīyuàn ， hěnduō rén dàizhe xiǎogǒu qù kànYīsheng 。 Wǒ de Tóngxué yě zài nàér ， wǒ wèn tā ， zhè shì nǐ de xiǎogǒu ma ？ Wǒ de Tóngxué shuō " Shìde ， tā Zuótiān hé Jīntiān bù chī yě bù hē ， wǒ xīwàng tā hǎoqǐlái 。 " 
Xiàwǔ xiàyǔ le ， wǒ hé Bàba 、 Māma zài jiā lǐ 。 Bàba kànshū ， Māma kàndiànShì ， wǒ xuéxí Hànyǔ 。 Wǒ xǐhuan xué Hànyǔ ， nǐ ne ？


Learn Chinese through stories - HSK1  （more podcast：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk_Q-vfEdpBJCRJviEEY0KQ）

My Saturday

Today's podcast will look at phrases and words around feeling hungry. 

Proper British English

Feeling Hungry

In this episode we are going to learn 【Weather】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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最近的天气很奇怪。
zuì jìn de tiān qì hěn qí guài 。
The weather has been weird lately.
今天天气很好，不冷不热。
jīn tiān tiān qì hěn hǎo ， bù lěng bú rè 。
Today the weather is good, neither too cold nor too hot.
昨天天气不太好，太热了。
zuó tiān tiān qì bú tài hǎo ， tài rè le 。
The weather was not very good yesterday, it was too hot.
明天很冷，气温只有10度。
míng tiān hěn lěng ， qì wēn zhǐ yǒu shí dù 。
Tomorrow is very cold, the temperature is only 10 °C.
下个星期下雨，我不会去公园跑步。
xià gè xīng qī xià yǔ ， wǒ bú huì qù gōng yuán pǎo bù 。
It's raining next week and I won't go running in the park.
你在哪个城市呢？
nǐ zài nǎ gè chéng shì ne ？
Which city are you in?
你那里今天是阴天还是晴天呢？
nǐ nà lǐ jīn tiān shì yīn tiān hái shì qíng tiān ne ？
Is it cloudy or sunny where you are today?

Daily Chinese With Yuli

天气 Weather （Beginner）

Hi, I'm Smith, host of the Smithing Podcast for English learners. Join us for a fun and engaging way to improve your language skills. We cover grammar, slang, phrasal verbs, and more, with confessionals from myself and other learners. Guest speakers from around the world offer unique perspectives, and each episode is divided into dialogue, vocabulary, and example sentences. Book lessons with me for one-on-one guidance. Let's get Smith-ing!

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Smithing English Podcast  Introduction

En el día a día los españoles somos muy coloquiales. Usamos muchas palabras de jerga, informales, pero también frases coloquiales, que cuando las escuchas por primera vez pueden sonar un poquito extrañas, pero que son tan comunes que una vez que las has escuchado, no puedes parar de oírlas. Son frases que los españoles usamos todo el rato. En este episodio menciono algunas de ellas.

Espero que disfrutes este episodio.


