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.
Touch your tongue tip firmly to the ridge behind your top teeth and let sound flow around the sides.
“Now the tongue MUST touch! Press the tip behind the top teeth — a firm little kiss — and sing around the sides!”Nunzio, when he hears it
In the app, this sound is put under pressure in Everyday English and The R & L Duet — whole sentences built so it cannot hide.
The classic mix-ups involving this sound, one page per pair: leg vs red.
People often say “l” when a word actually wants “r” as in red — 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.