Lesson One: THE PRELIMINARIES Lesson two: THE DESCRIPTION OF SPEECH SOUNDS Lesson three: CONSONANTS Lesson four: VOWELs Lesson five: ALLOPHONIC VARIATION Lesson six: CONNECTED SPEECH Lesson seven: THE SYLLABLE Lesson eight: STRONG AND WEAK FORMS Lesson nine: CONNECTED SPEECH, CONTD. Lesson ten: ALLOPHONIC VARIATION, CONTD. Lesson eleven: MORE ALLOPHONES Lesson twelve: INTONATION Appendix I: Solutions to the exercises Appendix II: Glossary of linguistic terms