Hi again and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy and this is our 175th episode.

If you follow us on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube, you've already heard that we released the

first video of our brand new video series to YouTube last week.

I'm very excited that the introduction to short vowels pronunciation video is already live on YouTube,

and individual videos for all five short vowels are

available to pronuncian.com subscribers. So you can keep up with all these developments,

I'll link to our YouTube channel, Facebook page, and Twitter feed from this episode's transcript page. You can find that by going to

www.org-Prenuncian.com slash podcast. Prenuncian is spelled P-R-O-N-U-N-C-I-N.

Let me say today how important Pernancian.com subscribers are to our ongoing efforts to providing

high-quality content, much of it, like these podcasts, for free.

While we're happy to be able to provide so much free content, we these podcasts, for free.

While we're happy to be able to provide so much free content,

we have costs associated with video production,

website programming, content creation, and bandwidth.

So if you've been wanting to go deeper into learning American English pronunciation, consider joining the site.

Site members get complete access to all of the exercises and quizzes, plus all six brand-new

short vowels videos.

We'll release one more short vowels video to YouTube next month, but the rest of the videos

will be for pronunciation members only.

To learn more about joining the site, go to www.pronuncian.com slash join. Staying on the short vowels theme, today we're going to practice some short vowels

minimal sets. Minimal sets are groups of words that are all the same except for one sound. Studying minimal

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