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A Little Listening Practice
Listen and let me know what you hear.
What's that sound?
- Dogs bark. Woof woof! and Bow wow!
- Cats meow. Meow.
- Cows moo. Moo.
- Chickens cluck. Cluck, cluck, cluck. It's just that I do it better.
A dog barking.
A cat meowing.
A cow mooing.
A chicken clucking.
What's that sound?
- Engines rev. Rrrrrrr, Rrrrrrr. And the way I do it.
- Lions roar. ROAR!
- Bososokus rev their engines and are annoying.
- Godzilla does whatever Godzilla wants to do. どうぞ
An engine revving.
A lion roaring.
A bososoku annoying.
Godzilla
What is he saying?
He is saying LIGHT.
Sometimes two sounds sound the same. L and R can be like that.
They are also hard to pronounce.
We can practice these sounds using Minimal Pairs. Sets of words that are almost the same except for one sound: Light. Right. Fight
Light
Right
Fight
Height
You got {number correct}/{number of questions} correct answers
I hope you will not just listen to English but listen to the whole world around you. There's a lot going on.