Learn English: Pronunciation

Sheep or ship? Think or sink? 70 minimal pairs across 14 sound contrasts train the differences that make English hard to hear. Free, offline, no ads, no account.

Sheep or ship? Think or sink? Best or vest?

If those pairs sound the same to you, that is not a vocabulary problem — it is a listening problem, and it is the one thing most English apps never train. This one starts there.

HEAR THE DIFFERENCE • 14 sound contrasts, 70 minimal pairs — the sounds that actually change meaning • Sheep/Ship, Light/Right, Think/Sink, Best/Vest, Cat/Cut, Pear/Bear, Sea/She, Chair/Share, Fan/Van, Pen/Pan, Thin/Thing, Price/Prize, Jet/Yet, Pool/Pull • Four dedicated pronunciation lessons: TH sounds, R and L, long and short vowels, and S / SH / CH • Hear a word, choose which one you heard. It is harder than it looks, and it is exactly the skill that makes fast speech understandable

EVERY WORD SHOWS ITS SOUND • IPA phonetic notation on all 361 words • A plain sound-it-out hint, like AP-uhl for "apple" — for when IPA is not yet familiar • A real example sentence you can hear • Tap anything to hear it again, as many times as you like

26 VOCABULARY LESSONS, 361 WORDS Alphabet, Numbers, Colors, Animals, Food & Drink, Family, Body, Days & Months, Time & Weather, Common Phrases, Jobs, Clothes, House & Home, Action Verbs, Feelings, Places Around Town, Transportation, Fruits & Vegetables, School & Study, Nature, Sports & Hobbies, Opposites — plus the four pronunciation lessons.

30 GRAMMAR TOPICS A short rule, seven real examples, and fill-in-the-blank practice for each one. Articles through to second conditionals and relative clauses — 210 examples and 104 drills. Answer by tapping a choice or by typing it, whichever you find harder.

PRACTICE THAT IS ACTUALLY PRACTICE • Listening quiz — hear a word, pick it from four • Grammar drills — tap or type, across every topic • Minimal pairs — the ear training, mixed or by contrast • Save any word to Favorites and come back to it

HOW THE AUDIO WORKS, HONESTLY Every word and sentence is spoken by the built-in iOS speech voice, not by a recording. That is a deliberate trade: it is why the app is 100% offline with nothing to download, why you can slow the speech right down when a word is hard, and why you can switch between American, British, Australian and Indian English voices in Settings.

FREE, AND ACTUALLY FREE • No ads, no accounts, no sign-up, no subscription, nothing locked • No tracking and no analytics of any kind • No permissions requested — not the microphone, not notifications, nothing • Works completely offline, on a plane or with no signal • iPhone and iPad

Built for adult learners who want to understand real English, not collect points.