Complete English Pronunciation Self-Diagnosis Chart

Showing all 44 sounds

🗣️ Basic Consonants (1-18)

/b/ (b)

Be, Big, Ball / Able, Problem, Number / Job, Web, Tab + blob

Busy bees behind the bushes

/d/ (d)

Do, Down, Day / Idea, Middle, Product / Used, Good, Old + did

David dared to dance with Daisy

/f/ (f)

Face, Fun, Friend / After, Often, Different / Off, Laugh, Cliff + fluff

Frank the frog fancied feasting on flies

/g/ (g)

Game, Give, Ground / Again, Begin, Language / Bag, Hug, Frog + gig

Garry's grandma gives good guidance

/h/ (h)

Hi, Happy, Here, Who, Hot / Behind, Ahead, Uphill, Rehearse

Hurry up and hide her horses

/k/ (k)

Cat, Key, Kid, Cold / Scar, Account, Include / Back, Check, Work, Knock + Coke

Crispy chicken in the kitchen

/l/ (l)

Love, Like, Long, Look / Yellow, Follow, Children, Always / All, Will, Real, People + little

Lilly's little lamb leaped the lazy lion

/m/ (m)

Make, My, Much, More / Summer, Family, Image, Government / From, System, Team, Come + mom

Mighty Molly makes mistakes

/n/ (n)

New, Nice, Knee, Now, Know / Warning, Random, Honey, Winner / One, Own, Can, When + none

Noah's nose knows no nonsense

/ŋ/ (ng)

King, Sing, Ring, Bring, Strong, Hang, Wrong, Morning, Doing, Listening

From morning to evening the king rings deceiving

/p/ (p)

Please, Public, Part, Put / Happen, Paper, Option, Support / Stop, Group, Jump, Cheap + pump

Pam paints pretty pictures

/r/ (r)

Real, Run, Room, Road, Ready / Generally, Current, Different, Performance / Teacher, Brother, Sister, War + roar, world, girl, squirrel

Rory's rusty mirror's rare

/s/ (s)

Say, Same, Such, Set / System, Possible, Question, Necessary / This, Class, Us, Books

Sarah's sister's silver socks

/t/ (t)

Time, Team, True, Tell / Water, Matter, Winter, Important, Mountain, Maintenance / But, Get, It, Just

Two stops to turn the tides

/v/ (v)

Very, Voice, Vision, Village / Even, Seven, Over, Cover / Love, Five, Save, Drive

Vivid voices vary very much

/w/ (w)

Win, Work, Why / Aware, Forward, Quit, Choir / Now, How, Tomorrow, Arrow

Wayne washed the wooden walkway

/j/ (y)

You, Your, Yellow, Year / Canyon, Opinion, Serious / Happy, Easy, Money, Disney, Mickey

Yes, young Yannis

/z/ (z)

zero, zone, zoom, zest / result, music, phase, scissors / because, these, waves, please

Fuzzy bees buzzed in the breeze

🎭 Advanced Consonants (19-24)

/ʒ/ (j)

genre, usual, casual, treasure, measure, leisure, vision, version, seizure

Television visionary

/dʒ/ (dj)

joy, juice, jungle, jelly / soldier, graduate, religion, individual / bridge, cage, courage, judge

The judge rejoiced and joined the surgeon

/ʃ/ (x)

she, shoe, shop, share / mission, fashion, social, caution / wish, push, cash, wash, shush

Shelly shines her shoes and shells

/tʃ/ (tx)

change, cheap, choose, child / future, culture, adventure, question / catch, switch, watch, stretch

Chimps and chipmunks challenge children

/θ/ (ç)

thanks, think, thirty, throw, through, three / author, faithful, within, everything, birthday / with, both, faith, earth, width, length, depth

Three times I've thought of something thoughtful

/ð/ (dh)

the, there, this, though, then, than / father, mother, weather, other, together / breathe, clothe, smooth

Heather's father's feathered hat

🎵 Basic Vowels (25-34)

/ə/ (ã)

the, a, about, again, away, around, taken, problem

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/i/ (í)

eat, each, eel, ear, easy / keep, week, pretty / he, she, free, coffee, movie + eerie

She sees the beach and feels the heat

/ɪ/ (ê)

if, it, is, in, image, inside / him, his, with, this, still

The little kitten with knitted mittens is in the kitchen

/e/ (é)

egg, end, edge, effort / bed, better, very, never, then, when

Ed and Ben went ten steps ahead

/æ/ (éé)

act, add, apple, animal / bad, cat, dad, hat, can, hand, ask

Pam's ham and jam sandwich

/uː/ (ú)

uber, food, choose, loose, fool, school / you, true, two, view, blue

Sue's fruit juice's cool too

/ʊ/ (û)

good, look, put, foot, could, should, would, wood, full

Good wood should cook good

/ɒ/ (ó)

of, off, on, other, often, object / more, for, problem, score, story, horse

The hot pot of broth brought the dog to a stop

/ɑː/ (á)

arm, are, far, farm, father, mother, heart, start / idea, data, soda, pasta, america

Martha's father's art barn

/ʌ/ (ã)

up, under, us, uncle, ugly, understand, update / some, done, none, love, cover, trouble, monday

The runner's uncle's young

🌊 Diphthongs & R-Colored Vowels (35-44)

/eɪ/ (êi)

able, aim, eight, ache, alien / maybe, date, wait, great, taste / day, say, play, away, today, stay

JJ's name is Jake

/aʊ/ (áu)

out, our, ounce / house, down, south, cloud / now, how, allow, meow, wow

The mouse in the house found a tiny blue blouse

/aɪ/ (ái)

I, eye, island, icon, ice / life, mind, fine, find, price / try, fly, why, my, shy

By and by, I'll say goodbye

/ɔɪ/ (ói)

oil, oyster, voice, choice, noise, poison, avoid / joy, toy, boy, annoy

Avoid the noise from boys and toys

/əʊ/ (ôu)

over, open, own / phone, home, alone, hope / go, so, know, no, slow

The boat rows slow below the rainbow

/ɛr/ (ér)

air, area, arrow / clarity, marriage, daring, transparent / care, chair, fair, share, wear, there

Mary married merry Larry

/ɔr/ (ór)

or, order, orange, orbit / sorry, story, boring, corner, short / more, for, door, score, explore, before

Laura roared behind the door

/ɪr/ (ír)

ear, eerie / clearly, spirit, mirror, serious / beer, peer, cheer, year, pioneer, fear

Peers in careers fear cheers and tears

/ʊr/ (ûr)

your, you're, cure, pure, sure, pour, tour, jury, Bureaucracy

Secure tour is pure manure

/ɜr/ (ãr)

early, earn, urge, urban / word, perfect, pearl, girl, purpose, journey / fur, blur, better, faster, teacher, doctor

The squirrel's words were perfect

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