Kilo Lingo

Esperanto · Chapter 1 · Lesson 23 · Vocabulary

The sounds of the hats

One letter, one sound - and here is each hatted letter's sound, mouth diagram and all.

Pick a sound, watch the mouth make it, then play the example words and copy them aloud. When a slider appears, drag it slowly and watch which part of the mouth moves - that moving part is the whole difference between the two sounds.

/tʃ/ĉ

English ch in church, every time, everywhere. One letter, one sound is the whole alphabet's promise - the hats exist so it can keep it.

Read the mouth

No sound this time: the mouth moves, you say which sound it made. Nobody else will ever test you on this - which is exactly why it sticks.

Hear it, pick it

One of the two words plays - which did you hear? This is the single highest-value pronunciation exercise there is.

Ear check

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Real words, one sound each: how is the highlighted part pronounced?

How do you pronounce the highlighted c in Esperanto?

Lesson 23 of 26 in this chapter

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