How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

All letters are either consonants or vowels. A, E, I, O and U are vowels. All the rest are consonants, apart from Y which can be both because it can sound like a vowel. Let’s see when Y is a vowel and ...

Hi. I'm Tim and this is my Pronunciation Workshop. Here, I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. Today, I'm going to tell you about perhaps the most common ...

In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

Larissa Braz Sousa had a good grasp of English when she moved to Australia a few years back for her PhD in public health. But it wasn't her native language and she found it was affecting her ...

English bursts with consonants. We have words that string one after another, like angst, diphthong and catchphrase. But other languages keep more vowels and open sounds. And that variability might be ...

Completing DailyMail.com's FREE new puzzle GuessWord involves eliminating potential words in as few guesses and as little time as possible. A great way to do that involves ruling out the most ...