Free pronunciation drills
Sounds a listener may miss
Some English sounds are easy for a listener to miss. Each drill here is 6 words and 2 sentences with that sound, a model voice to copy, and your try scored by an AI against the words on the screen.
19 sounds to practise
Pick a sound. Each drill takes a few minutes.
- th as in "think"think, three, thank
- th as in "this"this, that, mother
- w as in "west"west, water, work
- r as in "right"right, road, rent
- l as in "light"light, late, long
- sh as in "ship"ship, shop, sure
- ch as in "chair"chair, cheap, check
- p as in "park"park, price, pen
- s as in "see"see, sun, city
- t as in "time"time, ten, today
- d as in "door"day, door, dinner
- m as in "map"money, more, summer
- ee as in "leave"eat, need, team
- ir as in "bird"bird, work, first
- a as in "late"day, name, late
- i as in "time"time, nine, five
- o as in "go"go, home, phone
- ow as in "now"now, town, down
- oy as in "boy"boy, toy, voice
How a drill works
- Listen to the model voice say the word or the sentence.
- Tap Record, say it, and tap Stop.
- See whether the sound came through clearly, with an estimate out of 100, and the word to listen for.
Each try goes to our server and is scored by Microsoft Azure AI Speech, then deleted: we keep nothing of a try. You have 20 tries a day. A score is an estimate from an AI, not a test result. What we keep
Which sounds are yours? The free mock test names the three a listener may miss most in your answers. Or practise a whole task in the practice room.
Spokaro is an AI speaking coach. Practice scores are estimates, not your CELPIP result.
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