Improving communication — A bunch of words

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Stories in this series

• Improving communication — English pronunciation
• Improving communication — American English
• Improving communication — Expressions
• Improving communication — Welcome to basic
• Improving communication — Intonation
• Improving communication — A bunch of words
• Improving communication — Tutoring
• Improving communication — Overcommunication

There are basically 16 vowels in English, including monophthongs and diphthongs. Some of them might be colored by R or L. Besides there are around 21 consonants, categorized by nasal, fricative, stop, trill, plosive traits. It’s easily to make mistake by using similar sounds from your language, but what seems like subtle difference to us can mean a huge to native speaker.