Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Learn how to pronounce 100 homophones with an American accent.
Practice with advanced pronunciation exercises recorded by a professional speech therapist.

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• Definition of Homophones: 00:15
• Pronunciation Exercise: 01:10

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Hello there! This is the "Sounds American" channel.
Let's have some fun! Have you heard about homophones?

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.
A good example are the words "eye" and "I."

Homophones can be very confusing. We mean, like, really, confusing. For instance, "there" and "their." Here's another good one: "here" and "hear." Did you hear that?

What's actually confusing are the differences in spelling. Different spellings don't always mean different pronunciation. For example, "pair" and "pear."

Here's the good news, though. Homophones make pronunciation exercises shorter, since you have less words to learn.:). Listen: "way" and "weigh." Awesome, isn't it?

Speaking of pronunciation exercises, we happen to have one for you.

[Pronunciation Exercise]
This is how it works.
You'll see a word on the screen and hear its pronunciation. Like this.
Repeat each word after the speaker.
Remember, these are homophones, so at least two sequential words will sound the same.
Let's begin.

• eye – I
• hour – our
• buy – by – bye
• be – bee
• blew – blue
• brake – break
• board – bored
• bare – bear
• been – bin
• but – butt
• die – dye
• dew – do – due
• dam – damn
• dear – deer
• disc – disk
• gym – Jim
• ate – eight
• flea – flee
• flew - flu
• for – four
• forth – fourth
• fair – fare
• fir – fur
• hi – high
• hay – hey
• heal – heel
• hole – whole
• hall – haul
• heard – herd
• him – hymn
• hear – here
• close – clothes
• lie – lye
• loan – lone
• lead – led
• mount – Mt.
• made – maid
• mail – male
• meat – meet
• march – March
• missed – mist
• know – no
• knows – nose
• knew – new
• knot – not
• oh – owe
• peak – peek
• peace – piece
• plain - plane


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