For Hungarian speakers
All 40 American English sounds
Every target sound in textbook order, with the sound a Hungarian speaker tends to use instead. Click a kind to open the detail page.
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| Sound | As in | You may say | Kind | Salience | Impact | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 /i/ | see | /iː/ | Same sound, different production | ●●○○○ | ●○○○○ | sourced |
 /ɪ/ | sit | /i/ | Missing sound | ●●●●● | ●●●●○ | sourced |
 /e/ | day | /eː/ | Same sound, different production | ●●○○○ | ●○○○○ | sourced |
 /ɛ/ | bed | /ɛ/ | Same sound, different production | ●●○○○ | ●○○○○ | sourced |
 /æ/ | cat | /ɛ/ | Missing sound | ●●●●● | ●●●●○ | sourced |
 /ʌ/ | cup | /ɒ/ | Missing sound | ●●●●○ | ●●●○○ | sourced |
 /ə/ | sofa | /ɛ, o, a/ | Missing sound | ●●●●● | ●●●○○ | sourced |
 /ɝ/ | bird | /ɛr, ør/ | Missing sound | ●●●●● | ●●●○○ | consensus |
 /ɑ/ | hot | /ɒ, aː/ | Missing sound | ●●●○○ | ●●○○○ | sourced |
 /ɔ/ | law | /o, ɒ/ | Missing sound | ●●●○○ | ●●○○○ | sourced |
 /o/ | go | /oː/ | Same sound, different production | ●●○○○ | ●○○○○ | sourced |
 /ʊ/ | book | /u/ | Missing sound | ●●●○○ | ●●○○○ | consensus |
 /u/ | food | /uː/ | Same sound, different production | ●○○○○ | ●○○○○ | consensus |
 /aɪ/ | my | /ɒj/ | Same sound, different production | ●○○○○ | ●○○○○ | consensus |
 /aʊ/ | how | /ɒu, ɒ, u/ | Missing sound | ●●○○○ | ●○○○○ | consensus |
 /ɔɪ/ | boy | /oj, ɒj/ | Missing sound | ●●○○○ | ●○○○○ | consensus |
 /p/ | pen | /p/ | Same sound, different production | ●●●○○ | ●●○○○ | sourced |
 /b/ | bed | /p/ | Two sounds merged | ●●○○○ | ●●●○○ | consensus |
| /m/ | man | no issue here | consensus | |||
 /w/ | win | /v/ | Missing sound | ●●●●○ | ●●●●○ | consensus |
| /f/ | fish | no issue here | consensus | |||
 /v/ | van | /f/ | Two sounds merged | ●●○○○ | ●●●○○ | consensus |
 /θ/ | think | /t, s, f/ | Missing sound | ●●●●● | ●●●○○ | consensus |
 /ð/ | this | /d, z, v/ | Missing sound | ●●●●● | ●●●○○ | consensus |
 /t/ | top | /t/ | Same sound, different production | ●●●●○ | ●●○○○ | sourced |
 /d/ | dog | /d/ | Same sound, different production | ●●●○○ | ●●○○○ | consensus |
| /s/ | sun | no issue here | consensus | |||
 /z/ | zoo | /s/ | Two sounds merged | ●●○○○ | ●●●○○ | consensus |
| /n/ | no | no issue here | consensus | |||
 /l/ | light | /l/ | Same sound, different production | ●●●○○ | ●○○○○ | consensus |
 /r/ | red | /r/ | Missing sound | ●●●●● | ●●○○○ | consensus |
| /ʃ/ | ship | no issue here | consensus | |||
 /ʒ/ | vision | /ʃ/ | Two sounds merged | ●○○○○ | ●●○○○ | consensus |
| /tʃ/ | chair | no issue here | consensus | |||
 /dʒ/ | jump | /tʃ/ | Two sounds merged | ●●○○○ | ●●●○○ | consensus |
 /j/ | yes | Different distribution | ●●○○○ | ●●●○○ | consensus | |
 /k/ | cat | /k/ | Same sound, different production | ●●○○○ | ●●○○○ | consensus |
 /g/ | go | /k/ | Two sounds merged | ●●○○○ | ●●●○○ | consensus |
 /ŋ/ | sing | /ŋg, ŋk/ | Different distribution | ●●○○○ | ●●○○○ | consensus |
 /h/ | house | /h/ | Same sound, different production | ●●○○○ | ●○○○○ | consensus |