Understanding spoken English starts with its sounds. Many listening difficulties don't come from vocabulary at all, but from sounds your ear hasn't yet learned to tell apart.

These lessons work through the 44 sounds of English one at a time, then show how they run together in natural speech. Every lesson has you listen, recognise, and then repeat aloud.

Every lesson includes a narrated video and a full lesson document. Listen, pause when you need to, and come back to visit anything you want to recheck.

Choose any lesson below.

Phonemes

Lesson 1: The Sound /iː/ (sheep)