One of the 40 sounds Nunzio listens for. When you read a sentence aloud, the app scores every single sound in it on your phone — this page is what he knows about this one: what tends to come out in its place, and what to do about it.
Raise your jaw slightly and lift the tongue a bit higher in the front of the mouth.
“Too much mouth, bello! Close the jaw a little — this vowel is smaller, tighter, more polite. Ecco!”Nunzio, when he hears it
In the app, this sound is put under pressure in Vowel Traps — whole sentences built so it cannot hide.
The classic mix-ups involving this sound, one page per pair: ten vs apple, ten vs day, ten vs bird.
People often say “eh” when a word actually wants “a” as in apple, “ay” as in day, “ur” as in bird — each of those pages shows the way back.
Reading about a sound is one thing. Hearing which ones you miss is another.
Nunzio records you reading a sentence, scores every sound in it on your phone — nothing is uploaded — and tells you the one thing worth fixing. Nunzio — Accent Coach is coming to the App Store and Google Play.