Nunzioaccent coach
vowel · the sound library

“uh” as in banana

Written /ə/ in the phonetic alphabet — but you will never need that in the app.

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.

What tends to come out instead

“uh” slipping into “uh” (as in cup)

Make the vowel even shorter, quieter, and fully relaxed — a quick unstressed mumble in the center of the mouth.

“Too much passion for such a little vowel! This one is a mumble, a shrug, almost nothing — quick and lazy, bello!”Nunzio, when he hears it

Where it lives in real words

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Compared head to head

The classic mix-ups involving this sound, one page per pair: banana vs ship, banana vs cup.

It also likes to turn up uninvited

People often say “uh” when a word actually wants “ih” as in ship, “uh” as in cup — 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.