Word by word · the sound library

banana

ba·na·na

The stress sits on “na” — flatten it and the word stops sounding like itself.

The sounds inside it

In order, shown the way you would say them — each one links to its page in the sound library, with what tends to go wrong and how to fix it.

b as in bed uh as in banana n as in nose a as in apple n as in nose uh as in banana

Where Nunzio makes you say it

“The gorilla peeled a ripe banana slowly.”

from The R & L Duet, one of the app’s practice packs

Now say it out loud — and find out which of those sounds actually came out.

Nunzio records you reading the whole sentence, scores every sound on your phone — nothing is uploaded — and names the one worth fixing. Nunzio — Accent Coach is coming to the App Store and Google Play.