Over the past few weeks, my wife Allison and I have done our annual summer trip up north with the kids to visit family in northernmost New York and southern Ontario, Canada. During the Canadian ...

Crash Course Linguistics. Phonetics 1 - Consonants. Episode 8 | 11m 16s Video has Closed Captions | CC. We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don ...

She began writing for children after a creative writing class in college, when a classmate pointed out that her protagonists ...

Consonant clusters are important to know about because if you miss a sound or say the wrong sound, you might say another word, and people might not be able to understand you.

Consonants, like “T” and “D”, can sound so similar that the human brain has to make a snap decision about what it’s hearing. “Consonants require a bit more precision to tell one from ...

Consonants and Vowels… All letters are either consonants or vowels. A, E, I, O and U are vowels. All the rest are consonants, apart from Y which can be both because it can sound like a vowel.

Amharic, the language of Ethiopia, is written with a script in which each character stands for a consonant+vowel syllable. These kids are singing a song to help them learn the 34 characters from ...

Here's last week's puzzle as presented: Over the past few weeks, my wife Allison and I have done our annual summer trip up north with the kids to visit family in northernmost New York and southern ...