More about English sounds

	RULE	EXAMPLE	EXCEPTION
/h/	At the beginning of a word	hello	hour
/ai/	Before a consonant followed by silent e	bike
/i:/	Double e & ea	See, repeat
/i/	Between consonants	fish	England
/əu/	The letter o + consonant + e	Phone
/s/	At the beginning of a word The letter c + e/i	Spain Cinema, centre
/ʃ/	Consonants sh -tion	She nation	Russia, sure, sugar
/dƷ/	The letter J is always pronounced like this Sometimes g+ e or g + i	Juice, Jane German, region
/t ʃ/	The consonants ch and tch are usually pronounced like this	Children Watch

English Phonetic mouth map

This is where we pronounce the different sounds in English