Student Support Materials
Studying on your own without a teacher? Click on the sound files below to hear a Native Speaker saying the following phrases from Student Workbook 1: The College Daze.
Page 9: Unstressed Syllables and the Soft Schwa
- Happily
- Occasion
- Devil
Page 10: Schwas in Practice, the R-colored Schwa
- Water/Bitter
- How are you?
Page 12: Taking out Vowels & Consonants
- Aluminium
- Average
- February
- Give him
- Give her
- Give them
- Laboratory
- Probably
- Reference
- I just got home*
- I was sleeping when you called this morning.
Page 13: The T=>D reduction
- Leader/Liter
- I gotta run to the store.*
- I’m totally exhausted.
Page 15: Other Speech Elements - Word blending and Glottal Stops / Page 33: Applying the schwa.
- But I’m tired.
Coming soon.