Test the English consonants learners find hardest: TH, V and W, R and L, SH and CH, and more, in ten mixed sentences. This version uses C2 sentences: near-native challenges, dense sounds and fast rhythm.
English has twenty four consonant sounds, and several do not exist in many other languages, such as the two TH sounds, the English R and the W. Others, like V and B or L and R, are easy to mix. This test spreads the most difficult consonants across ten sentences, so you can see at a glance which ones need extra work.
At C2 the aim is effortless, near-native clarity. These proficiency sentences pack difficult sounds into fast, dense phrases, many of them close to tongue twisters, so even confident speakers find out what still needs work.
Replacing TH with T, D, S or F
Mixing V and W or L and R
Dropping final consonants
Forgetting to use your voice for Z and V
Each sentence trains one sound. The orange label above the sentence tells you which one.
Little Lily licked lemon lollies lazily while lounging lightly on the luxurious leather lounger.
The twelfth thief's thoughts thrilled the throng that thronged through the threshold on Thursday.
Generous Gina judged the jazz jamboree, generously giving jewels to the jubilant young jugglers.
Harry's happy hamster hurried home, hiding his heavy hazelnuts high in the hollow hedge.
Among the tangling vines, the cunning young monkey was swinging and clinging and singing.
Victorian travel writers frequently portrayed foreign cultures through the distorting lens of imperial assumptions.
Red lorry, yellow lorry, the drivers chanted, rarely realising how rapidly their rhythm was unravelling.
Flora's father fixed five faulty fans before finally falling fast asleep on the faded sofa.
Seven very vigilant vets vaccinated several vivacious vixens in the verdant valley early yesterday evening.
That thoughtless thing thoroughly thwarted the thrilling theory that the thoughtful theologian had threatened to publish.
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Each sentence above comes from a full ten-sentence pronunciation test. Take the complete test to keep practising.
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