Word by word · the sound library

blanket

blan·ket

The stress sits on “blan” — 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 l as in leg a as in apple ng as in sing k as in cat ih as in ship t as in top

Where Nunzio makes you say it

“The clever weaver wove a heavy blanket.”

from The W & V Waltz, 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.