Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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- The English language has many sounds, but there are some that are forbidden in English. We'll compare English to other languages in this fascinating insight into the secret life of English vowels (and a little bit on consonants too).

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00:00 The phonetic landscape
04:11 Consonant clusters
07:32 Vowel terror
13:27 The schwa
15:26 A pain in the Rs
17:50 The intrusive R