PRONUNCIATION
INTRODUCTION
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LINKS
American English Pronunciation. Exercises for every
sound with audio available.
International Phonetic Association. The IPA is the
largest and the oldest (established in 1886) representative
organisation for phoneticians whose aim is to promote the
scientific study of phonetics and its various practical
applications.
Mouth
Manglers. A fun site with a number of audio files. Listen and
repeat many many times to improve your pronunciation.
English Club's English Pronunciation. The website is
designed and maintained by English Club for ESL learners wishing
to improve their pronunciation. A number of issues, such as word
stress, sentence stress, homophones, phonetic spelling, and
linking, are discussed.
Sounds
of English. Detailed instruction on how to pronounce each
sound. The webpage is maintained by Sharon Widmayer and Holly
Gray.
Resources for Studying Spoken English. The
webpage contains vowel charts and databases.
English
Pronunciation Guide to the Names of People, Places, and
Stuff. Inogolo is a practical, easy-to-use website devoted to
the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and
miscellaneous stuff. The site contains a searchable database of
names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.
Inogolo offers an OpenSearch-compatible plug-in that that enables
searching for name pronunciations directly from your browser's
web search box.
Online
Language Laboratory. Pronunciation of 9 varieties of English
and 9 other languages. Pronunciation samples by over 40 native
speakers.
American
English Pronunciation Practice. Minimal pair practice and
quizzes by Charles Kelly.
American
English Pronunciation Practice. Minimal Pair Practice &
Quizzes.
ESL Pronunciation. QuickTime movie, minimal pairs,
and tongue twisters to practice certain difficult sounds.
English Pronunciation. Covering both British and
American English pronunciation and accents.
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. A machine-readable
pronunciation dictionary for North American English containing
over 125,000 words and their transcriptions.
Tongue Twisters. The world's largest collection of
tongue twisters, with 2,680 entries in 105 languages.