Transcribing the Sound of English is not so much a coursebook in phonetics nor a textbook on English phonology, but a training course in developing students’ powers of observation on features of English pronunciation and their skills in recording them in writing. It begins in a very elementary way but it is thorough, and eventually leads to the most comprehensive coverage of the sounds of English from words to full discourse that is available anywhere. It is designed for both native and non-native speakers of English, and for that latter reason all of the material is available in audio form. Every single word and all the discourses that are presented in Transcribing the Sound of English have been recorded and are available at www.cambridge.org/tench. Every single example with a reference number in the left-hand margin of this book is found with that same reference on that website.