Test your L sound in words like light, little and people, and see if the computer hears L clearly and never R. This version uses C1 sentences: complex structures, academic and professional words.
English has two kinds of L. The light L at the start of words, as in light and love, has the tongue tip on the ridge behind the top teeth. The dark L at the end of words, as in feel and people, is deeper, with the back of the tongue raised. Speakers of Japanese, Korean and Chinese often mix L and R, which changes words like light and right.
At C1 small errors stand out more, because everything else sounds fluent. These advanced sentences use academic and professional vocabulary, long words and complex stress, so you can polish the last sounds that still give away your first language.
Saying R instead of L, so light sounds like right
Dropping the dark L, so feel sounds like fee
Turning the final L into a vowel, so milk sounds like miuk
Adding a vowel after the L, so tell sounds like telle
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