The lazy vowel
/ə/ · schwa
Open unitPROFT · RELAXED PRONUNCIATION · SOUND NATURAL
Going to becomes gonna, did you becomes didja, I do not know becomes I dunno. Relaxed Pronunciation trains your ear and your voice with the reduced forms of everyday English.
HOW A WORKOUT WORKS
Each section opens the next. Mark each activity as complete and your progress is saved.
How each sound is made, a Spanish speaker alert and examples with audio.
Which word?, odd one out, and real sentences where one sound changes the meaning.
The pairs lab with voice recognition: the app tells you which version it heard.
Pairs in context and a short dialogue to shadow with the marks.
Sound order, memory, a 45-second speed round and the sound sorter.
Record and compare, read and pronounce, and a final quiz to pass the unit.
THE PROGRAM
Start with Unit 1 and follow the order: each unit builds on the previous one.
/ə/ · schwa
Open unitgoing to · want to · got to
Open unitdid you · what are you · let me
Open unitcould have · tell him
Open unitI'll · we'd · they're
Open unit-ing · -in
Open unitI don't know · yes · no
Open unitreview · all relaxed forms
Open unitRelaxed Pronunciation works best next to Presencia and La música del Inglés: learn the rhythm there, relax the words here.