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.
Bring your tongue tip forward close to the ridge, spread your lips, and make a narrow hissing channel.
“Too shushy! Bring the tongue forward, spread the lips flat, and make the thin sharp sss — like air from a bicycle tire!”Nunzio, when he hears it
Turn your voice off — same tongue position, but pure breath with no vocal-cord buzz.
“Too much buzzing, bello! This one is only air — hand on throat, feel NOTHING. Silent like sneaking to the fridge at night!”Nunzio, when he hears it
In the app, this sound is put under pressure in Everyday English — whole sentences built so it cannot hide.
The classic mix-ups involving this sound, one page per pair: sun vs think, sun vs shoe, sun vs zoo.
People often say “s” when a word actually wants “th” as in think, “sh” as in shoe, “z” as in zoo — 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.