Sound guides

Fix the sounds that give you away.

Every language has a few sounds that learners swap for ones they already know. Each guide shows where your tongue and lips go, the mistakes people usually make, and real sentences you can say out loud and get scored in about a second. Free to use.

Fix the sounds that give you away.

English

English TH

English R and L

English V and W

Ship or sheep

The schwa

-ed endings

Word stress

-s endings

The American T

Linking words

English -tion and -sion

Spanish

Spanish rolled R

Spanish B and V

Spanish J and G

Spanish LL and Y

French

French R

French nasal vowels

French U and OU

French liaison

German

German Ü and Ö

German CH

German R

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin tones

Mandarin zh, ch, sh and j, q, x

Italian

Italian double consonants

Japanese

Japanese long vowels and っ

Japanese R

Portuguese

Portuguese nasal vowels