COLLEAGUE or COLLEGE - do you need help saying the words properly?

It's easy to think of vocabulary mistakes just being a problem of what words mean. Sound, however, can also give us trouble when we're learning vocabulary. For many learners, this is the problem they face with saying the difference between colleague or college - they mean to say the first word but end up saying the second. 

The difference is in the final sound. When you're saying colleague, be sure to say the "g" sound at the back of your throat, not at the teeth. Otherwise, it comes out sounding like "college", which has the same "g" sound as George or edge. 

If you'd like more help working with and practising individual sounds in English, be sure to check out the Pronunciation page on the BBC Learning English website.  

Wednesday's Word Challenge

You don't find many wrods that end in "b" or the sound /b/ in Spanish, but they're fairly common in English: pub, tab, rub. How many words can you think of that end in that sound?

Tuesday's Word Challenge

How many words can you think of that contains the same long /oo/ sound as the word "blue"?

Try to avoid one-syllable words like "new", "true", "do", "shoe", "you" and "glue".