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SCEP 2025

I’m Director of UCL’s famous annual Summer Course in English Phonetics. This year we’re repeating the format with online and in-person modules. The five-day online module (August 11-15) can be taken from anywhere in the world as a self-contained course. For those who are able to travel to London, there is an optional second week (August 18-22) at University College London, to learn more and do further practice. It’s not recommended that the second week is taken alone: participants should have taken either the first online week or attended SCEP in a previous year.

SCEP comprises lectures covering English consonants, vowels and intonation, plus daily ear training and practical classes with experienced tutors to work on articulation. Our participants have come from countries including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, Ukraine and USA!

 

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– from the Foreword by J.C. Wells

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English speakers from North America are invited to take our grand survey on aspects of your pronunciation. Over ten thousand people have taken it so far! Results will be discussed in future videos on my channel. Thank you!  

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The American glottal conspiracy revisited

December 20, 2023/by Geoff Lindsey

Have you gotten gotten?

March 12, 2023/by Geoff Lindsey

The King’s Speech: Charles III’s RP accent

September 15, 2022/by Geoff Lindsey

STRUT ʌ, schwa ə and American English

July 25, 2022/by Geoff Lindsey
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My new video returns to the popular topic of Weak My new video returns to the popular topic of Weak Forms. Hope you like it! My channel at YouTube is DrGeoffLindsey
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Happy May Day! Today's the 10th Anniversary of CUB Happy May Day! Today's the 10th Anniversary of CUBE (for CUrrent British English), the free online pronunciation dictionary which I co-edit, and which lets you search not only for spellings but also for *sounds*. If you haven't tried it, I recommend you watch the short video I made about it first. Just go to cubedictionary.org and click on the video icon at the bottom. CUBE has countless options and is invaluable for teachers and researchers. E.g. you can find minimal pairs, customize phonetic transcription, and order the words you're looking for by frequency of use. There are some options for accent features, but we're still working to extend it beyond British English. I use it constantly myself!
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I have a Patreon! My videos take a huge amount of I have a Patreon! My videos take a huge amount of time and effort, and I can't sustain their output and quality without some support. This is why I've launched my Patreon, at https://www.patreon.com/drgeofflindsey. I hope my patrons will help to guide my content, and I'll try to show my thanks with occasional bonus material, live events and credit in my videos (plus extra goodies at higher levels).

To celebrate the launch I'm giving my first patrons a free copy of the new second edition of my little eBook SMART Speech, which will appear in the next week or two. To get your free copy, sign up to my Patreon by midnight GMT tonight, Saturday 25 February. (Availability of the free copy my depend on your territory.)

THANK YOU SO MUCH to anyone who feels able to support me in this way.

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Stress patterns in speech and music help us find w Stress patterns in speech and music help us find words hidden in movie and TV themes! PLUS: the first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare – and it supports my channel! https://skl.sh/drgeofflindsey12221
Thousands of thanks to all my YouTube subscribers. Thousands of thanks to all my YouTube subscribers. 10k to 100k in 10 weeks! @DrGeoffLindsey
My new video on King Charles III's RP accent, comp My new video on King Charles III's RP accent, comparing it with contemporary Standard Souther British. Watch it on my YT channel, drgeofflindsey (link in bio). 
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A short video on why King Charles's era has been c A short video on why King Charles's era has been called 'Carolean', and the alternative term 'Caroline'. Watch it at youtube.com/drgeofflindsey, link in bio. 
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Celebrating another successful UCL VSCEP (Virtual Celebrating another successful UCL VSCEP (Virtual Summer Course in English Phonetics) with wonderful nonvirtual phoneticians. #myfairlady #englishphonetics
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Pronunciation Pieces (all with audio)

Vowels

Eataly

Audio

People fool in love

Beer for dessert

Meet the fockus

Nick’s commonness

Bob Ladd

Weak forms

You over-pronouncing this word?

Sir Paul’s surprise

On and on

That that

sausage anne egg McMuffin

For four

To two

Them

Jack o’lantern

Yeah…she yells at me a lot

Nick’s commonness

Rhoticity & linking /r/

Non-rhotic Margaret

Linking r

Where are you?

Bellaritalia

Hosannar!

Vowel linking

Cooperation

Thee you

House of chaos

A dash of paella

Pronunciation

Word linking

An wholehearted assurance?

The way to loss

Fitness pizza

Words and grammar

British English just got more American

A little training

Multiple multiplies

Points of view on point of views

Snap! Something went wrong

So

Consonants

Postalveolar Jane

Sam /v/ictor /w/ood

‘ng’ as in Inger & Young Shin

Aspiration

Aspirational Paul

Devoiced Cris

Unaspirated Scott

Sblended

Beer for dessert

‘s’ and other fricatives

Please release me

Observe conservative insurgencies

Super

Points of view on point of views

Worse advertising

Geossrey

Paves the way

T/D deletion

First class box sets

Perfeckly strickly

Triumph of the curse child

T epenthesis

The artist formerly known as prints

G dropping

An interest in fashion

Fitness pizza

TH fronting

Fings to come

Thirty-free

T glottalling

American glottal conspiracy?

Word stress

Josette and stress

My sweet lover

Objective: adjective

Arabic, arabica

Predecessors and successors

Collect your colleagues

Euroscepticism

An wholehearted assurance?

Intonation & accentuation

British intonation: Meghan teaches us

Intonation, can mark subjects

Good for you!

My lawful wedded wife

Strong numerals

One rainy day

I have one question

To two

For four

Contractions

We do not speak like this

What’d you miss?

If you don’t read this, you won’t get these words right

Tricky spellings

The face of ancient Cambridge

Mapplethorpe

Irrational national?

Iron and environment

Please release me

Prickly -ically

Observe conservative insurgencies

Pronunciations to recognize

Pronunciations that I recommend

Negative transfer from other languages

Lamb meat tender

Do not blog the aisles

Great testes of America

Eataly

Worse advertising

What estate?

Feel the p*n*s?

I have one question

Beer for dessert

The way to loss

Native accents of English

Bernie Sanders

Bob Ladd

How to say ‘kudos’ and ‘Bezos’

Da Force Awakens

Djokovic, the jokey jock

A convenient day for terrorism?

Inauguration figure

Any time? Any town?

American glottal conspiracy?

People fool in love

Accent of the year: silbilants in MLE

Game of Throwns

Myrrh-seyside

Foreign names

What is Rakuten?

A dash of paella

Da Force Awakens

Djokovic, the jokey jock

Bellaritalia

Erdoğan: the herd’s verdict

Miscellaneous pronunciations

Bigly?

Bowie

Breksit, Bregzit

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

How mayor may or may not be pronounced

Indecisive divisive

Meet the fockus

Pronunciation

Should users of quitted be acquitted?

Super

Tricolor

What is Rakuten?

Tutorials

Aspiration

March 6, 2015/by Geoff Lindsey

The word pronunciation

June 2, 2015/by Geoff Lindsey

English h

February 19, 2015/by Geoff Lindsey

Cardinal vowels

July 5, 2012/by Geoff Lindsey

Ear-training quiz for non-natives

March 14, 2012/by Geoff Lindsey

Tones: ear-training and quizzes

September 24, 2012/by Geoff Lindsey
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