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.
Pull your tongue slightly back from the teeth, widen the groove, and round your lips a little.
“Too sharp, too hissy! Pull the tongue back a step, push the lips forward like a little kiss — shhh, soft like the sea.”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: shoe vs chair, shoe vs sun.
People often say “sh” when a word actually wants “ch” as in chair, “s” as in sun — 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.