Quick Practice Downloads

Sound by Sound Downloads

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Want to avoid the most common mistakes ESL speakers make? Want to practice the most difficult sounds quickly and easily? These downloads are designed to help you get results faster. For only $1.99 each, these quick and effective practice units focus on the most difficult and common mistakes that ESL speakers make. All quick practice downloads contain two items:

  1. a PDF file of target words
  2. and the accompanying WMA sound files

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HOW DO I RECEIVE MY DOWNLOADS?

Once your order is confirmed, you will receive an email entitled “Your order from Tarle Speech and Language”.  Scroll down to “order details”.  There you will find a link to your purchases.  Click the link, then enter the “code” and your email. This will with take you to a page to download your files.  You MUST save these files to your computer.

QUICK PRACTICE CATEGORIES

Common Words
Learn how to pronounce categories of words that are commonly used.

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Confusing Sound Pairs
Learn how to say commonly confused sounds.

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  • Quick practice: SH and CH

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  SH and CH.  It makes the words shoe and chew sound different

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: SH and CH PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: P and F

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  P and F. It makes the words pat and fat sound different

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: P and F PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: L, R, and W

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  L, R, and W. It makes the words white, light, and right  sound different

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: L, R, and W PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: IH and I

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  IH and I. It makes the words lit and light sound different

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: IH and I PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: AH and EH

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  AH and EH. It makes the words and and end sound different

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: AH and EH PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: AH and A

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  AH and A. It makes the words bat and bait sound different

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: AH and A PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: S and Z

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  S and

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: S and Z PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: IH and EH

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  IH and

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: IH and EH PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: V and W

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  V and

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: V and W PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: TH and S

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  TH and

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: TH and S PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: TH and T

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  TH and

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: TH and T PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: IH and E

    Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds:  IH and

    Order Confusing Sound Pairs: IH and E PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99

Difficult Sounds
Learn how to say words containing troubling sounds or sound combinations.

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  • Quick practice: How to pronounce X

    Learn how to say words containing the letter

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: How to pronounce X PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: How to say the OOH vowel

    Learn how to say words containing the short OOH sound.  For example:  wood, could, book

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: How to say the OOH vowel PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice : Ending S blends

    Learn how to say words containing ending S blends:  SK, SL, SP, ST, NS, RST in words like ask, whistle, lisp, last, since, first

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: Ending S blends SK, SL, SP, ST, NS, RST PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: Ending N blends

    Learn how to say words containing final N blends:  NT,ND, NS, NER, NJ, NTH, NL in words like want, and, once, donor, change, month, channel

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: Ending N blends NT,ND, NS, NER, NJ, NTH, NL PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: Beginning S blends

    Learn how to say words containing initial S blends: SK, SL, SM, SN, SP, ST, SW in words like sky, slim, smell, snore, spot, stop, swim

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: Beginning S blends SK, SL, SM, SN, SP, ST, SW PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: Beginning R blends

    Learn how to say words containing beginning R blends: BR, PR, DR, TR, GR, KR, FR, THR, SHR, SKR, STR, SPR in words like bridge, pray, drive, try, green, cry, fruit, throw, shrimp, scratch, street, spring

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: Beginning R blends BR, PR, DR, TR, GR, KR, FR, THR, SHR, SKR, STR, SPR PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: Beginning L blends

    Learn how to say words containing L blends:   PL, SL, BL, KL, GL, FL, SPL in words like play, slight, blue, glad, flag, splash

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: Beginning L blends PL, SL, BL, KL, GL, FL, SPL PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: Ending S blends following a VOICELESS sound

    Learn how to say words after adding an -S to a noun or verb

    Order Difficult Concepts and Sounds: Ending S blends following a VOICELESS sound. The final "s" will be pronounced like the "s" sound. PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99

–ED and –S endings
Learn how to say words with –ED and –S endings.

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Minimal Pairs
Learn to hear the slight differences between sounds and how they change the meaning of the word.

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  • Quick practice: Vowel sound minimal pairs

    Learn to hear the slight differences between vowel sounds and how they change the meaning of the word.  For example, eat, it, and at

    Order Minimal Pairs: Vowel sounds PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: Initial consonant sound minimal pairs

    Learn to hear the slight differences between vowel sounds and how they change the meaning of the word.  For example: bat, hat, sat

    Order Minimal Pairs: Initial consonant sounds PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99
  • Quick practice: Final consonant sound minimal pairs

    Learn to hear the slight differences between vowel sounds and how they change the meaning of the word.  For example: man, mat, mash

    Order Minimal Pairs: Final consonant sounds PDF and WMA Files @ $1.99

How to Say All Standard American Consonant Sounds

How to Say All Standard American Vowel Sounds