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Version 2.5 — much more to hear, and fairer practice. NEW • 8 new sound contrasts with 40 new minimal pairs: Wine or Vine, Tree or Three, Day or They, Pin or Pen, Late or Let, Cup or Cop, Fork or Pork, and Hair or Air • 4 new pronunciation lessons: Silent Letters, -ED Endings, Word Stress and Spelling Traps • 2 new everyday lessons: Health and Shopping • 6 new grammar topics: Was / Were, Possessive 's, Quick / Quickly, Used to, the passive, and gerund or infinitive • Every grammar topic now has at least four fill-in-the-blank drills • Text now grows with your Larger Text setting FAIRER PRACTICE • Typed answers with the keyboard's curly apostrophe, like don’t, are now accepted • Typed answers also accept other correct forms, like "does not" for "doesn't" or "that" for "who" • When you type, a hint shows which word is wanted, like the base verb • After a wrong answer, the explanation stays on screen until you tap Next • Fixed drills where more than one choice was correct • The listening quiz no longer offers two words that sound the same, like Sun and Son • Pressing Return on an empty answer no longer counts as wrong CLEARER SOUND AND CONTENT • "Close" is now spoken as the verb, as in "close the door", to match its card • Replaced four minimal pairs that some voices did not say as a true pair • Corrected the hint, IPA, example sentence or picture on 31 word cards, and made 19 grammar rules clearer • Sound no longer cuts out when you tap words quickly, and words no longer play after you leave a quiz • VoiceOver now says whether your answer was right Thanks for learning with us. Keep listening.
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.