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The InFluency PodcastAuthor: Hadar Shemesh
The InFluency podcast is your go-to resource for learning, speaking and teaching English. Hadar Shemesh is a pronunciation expert and fluency coach with thousands of students around the world, though she herself was an intermediate speaker of English once. In this podcast she will share her best strategies for learning English, speaking English with confidence and mastering the American accent. Discover how becoming fluent has everything to do with acquiring the right mindset, setting goals and learning how to overcome challenges. Hadar will also share her teaching philosophy and techniques to support English teachers looking to help their students become fluent. Language: en-us Genres: Education, Language Learning Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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489. One vowel sound, 15 different spellings: The /ɑ/ as in FATHER vowel
Episode 489
Tuesday, 2 December, 2025
One vowel sound, but so many spellings in English! English spelling is not phonetic, which means that just because it has one spelling, doesn't mean it always sounds the same way! In this video, we're going to talk about the 15 (!) different spellings that just ONE sound has in English. Crazy, right? For more information about this vowel, check out these episodes: How to pronounce 'water': https://hadarshemesh.com/magazine/water/ /ah/ as in father (and coffee, job and office): https://hadarshemesh.com/magazine/aa-as-in-father/ The 3 A's : cap-cup-cop: https://hadarshemesh.com/magazine/cap-cup-cop/
