CONSONANTS
Unit 4: Consonants
Unit 4 focuses on consonants, distinguishing four main groups: plosives, fricatives, affricates and approximants.
Introduction
The exercises included in this unit are specially devised to facilitate improvement targetting the potential weaknesses that speakers of Spanish may have to improve in their production and perception of RP sounds (e.g. difficult or subtle phonemic contrasts, sounds that exist in English but not in Spanish, and so on). Please refer to the Sound Bank section for a full description of each sound in terms of (1) IPA symbol, (2) identification, (3) articulatory description, (4) common and rare spellings, (5) written and audio examples in isolation and in context, (4) animated Illustration, (6) comparison with Spanish.