A Week 6 · Workshop 6Your own three sounds
Week 6 · Workshop 6

Your own three sounds

Pronunciation Workshop — this one you choose, from your own evidence.

~35 min

This workshop is yours

3 minutes

The first five workshops were chosen for you. This one is not. You choose it, from your own evidence.

After six weeks you know something no course could have known in advance: which sounds keep costing you. That is what this session is for.

Find your own three

8 minutes

Read through your Couldn't-Catch List and look for what repeats. Not the words — the reasons. Was it glued? Crushed? A missing ending? A number? A sound you confuse?

These boxes save on this device as you type. Bring them to your final class — your teacher builds the hour around them.

Go back to the workshop that matches

12 minutes

Open the one that fits your first pattern and do it again properly. Repeating a workshop is not going backwards — it is the single most efficient thing you can do with twelve minutes.

Words glue togetherW1 · S1

Linking — separate words arriving as one long sound.

The loud syllableW1 · Workshop

One syllable loud, the rest thrown away.

Small words vanishW1 · S3

to, of, have, can shrinking to almost nothing.

Vowel lengthW2 · Workshop

The vowel telling you what the swallowed ending was.

EndingsW3 · Workshop

-ed and -s, and counting syllables correctly.

The repair kitW3 · S3

Naming the exact gap instead of asking for the whole sentence.

TH, V/W, L/RW4 · Workshop

The sounds that produce the wrong word, not a fuzzy one.

Numbers and datesW5 · Workshop

Thirteen or thirty, and why big numbers lag.

What usually stays hardest, and for how long

5 minutes
For Nepali speakers

For Nepali speakers, the two that usually outlast the course are v / w and consonant clusters — asked, texts, worlds. Both are habits rather than gaps in knowledge, which is why they take longer.

Keep a running v/w pair list on your phone. Add one whenever you mishear one. Six months of that quietly finishes the job.
For Chinese speakers

For Chinese speakers, the two that usually outlast the course are final consonants and l / r. Both are structural — Mandarin simply does not allow the sounds where English puts them — so they need repetition rather than explanation.

Keep using vowel length as your way in. When a word ends too early, the length of the vowel before it is still telling you what the ending was.
General

Whatever your language, the patterns that outlast a course are habits rather than gaps in knowledge. Keep a running list on your phone and add to it whenever you mishear something.

Record and compare

5 minutes

Find your Week 1 — Workshop 1 recording, the one with comfortable, vegetable, interesting, photograph, photographer, every.

Record those same six words again now. Play the two back to back.

Six weeks apart, same six words. Whatever you hear in that comparison is real, and it is yours. Save the new one as “Week 6 — Workshop 6” and keep both.
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