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

My name is Mandy, and this is our 52nd episode. Today I am marking a change in the content

I will be teaching in the audio podcasts.

The video podcasts will continue working their way through the vowels, then the consonants.

The audio podcasts, however, are going to start a focus on the rhythm of English.

I've been working on this content for a while now, and in April you will be

able to pre-order the book about rhythm and intonation of American English pronunciation.

The book is scheduled for release in mid-May. I want to give a special shout-out to a

pronuncian user named Leonardo today.

Leonardo has been quite active on pronuncian and has been doing me a big favor by letting me know when he finds errors on the site.

We have a very small staff at pronuncian, and we really do rely on our users to help us keep

things clean and accurate.

Since Leonardo has helped us out a few times now, we've decided that we're going to send

him a free copy of the new Rhythm E-book when it comes out in May.

Congratulations, Leonardo. Now I told Leonardo that I'd mention

his name today, but I didn't tell him he'd get a free e-book. So I hope that's a fun little surprise for you,

Leonardo. Also, I want to mention quickly, listen all the way to the end of this show for a $5 coupon

code for pronunciation products.

Today I'm going to begin a more detailed discussion about linking than the earlier

podcasts got into.

This is a rather complicated and advanced lesson.

If you're a new listener,

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