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.
*Also used on page 50: Monophthongization