Lessons · Unit 4, lesson 6

Silent letters: knight, island, climb

The band English is infamous for: letters you must not say. On your sheets they're struck through with ∅ — the sheet does the remembering, you just skip them. knight is simply nite.

Now say it yourself

Read each word from its sheet, out loud, three times. Where there's a play button, listen first and copy what you hear. Slow is fine — clear beats fast.

Notice how short these words really are once the silent letters fall away: hour is just our, know is just no.