Improve your pronunciation with Beth and Georgie in three steps – hear, recognise and produce.
This series focuses on improving your English pronunciation so that people can understand you when you communicate – this is known as intelligibility. You'll also practise your listening, and you'll learn how to use pronunciation to help you say what you mean clearly.
Plus, stick around to the end of each episode for the bonus tip!
Why is English pronunciation so difficult?
Episode 251009 / 09 Oct 2025
Understand how stress has an important part to play in English pronunciation
Speak faster with contractions in conditionals
Episode 251002 / 02 Oct 2025
Learn to say long and difficult conditional sentences more easily
Linking between vowel sounds
Episode 250925 / 25 Sep 2025
How can we join words together to sound more fluent?
Pronouncing 'th' - think /θ/ vs this /ð/
Episode 250918 / 18 Sep 2025
What are two ways to pronounce the 'th' letter combination?
How to use word stress
Episode 250911 / 11 Sep 2025
REcord or reCORD? What's the difference in meaning?
Seven ways to pronounce 'ough'
Episode 250904 / 04 Sep 2025
Though, through, thought, thorough, tough... How are these words pronounced?
Intonation for question tags
Episode 250828 / 28 Aug 2025
The Sun rises in the east... doesn't it?!
How to pronounce -ed endings
Episode 250821 / 21 Aug 2025
How are the letters 'ed' pronounced differently in 'liked', 'loved' and 'landed'?
How to use sentence stress
Episode 250414 / 14 Apr 2025
Which words should be stressed when you speak?
Where to pause naturally in English
Episode 250407 / 07 Apr 2025
Want to learn when to pause naturally when speaking?
Three ways to pronounce the letter 't'
Episode 250331 / 31 Mar 2025
Want to learn three ways to pronounce the letter 't' naturally?
Gonna, wanna and gotta
Episode 250324 / 24 Mar 2025
How are 'going to', 'want to' and 'got to' often pronounced in fluent speech?
Consonant clusters at the start of words
Episode 250317 / 17 Mar 2025
How do you say 'stretch', 'throne' and 'glow'?
seat vs sit – /i:/ vs /ɪ/
Episode 250310 / 10 Mar 2025
What's the difference between 'sheep' and 'ship'?
British and American /r/
Episode 250303 / 03 Mar 2025
What's the difference in /r/ in British and American English pronunciation?
/ə/: The most common sound in English
Episode 250224 / 24 Feb 2025
What's the most common sound in English?