Pronunciation Links
- American English Pronunciation Practice http://www.manythings.org/pp/ Provides minimal pairs practice with specific sounds.
- Audio Concentration Games http://www.manythings.org/ac/ Try the game with "similar sounding words" to practice distinguishing similar English phonemes.
- ESL independent Study Lab http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html Go to the menu box and click on "Pronunciation" for links to many interesting and helpful sites. There's lots more as well.
- Daily Language Rhythm Practice http://www.manythings.org/lar/ This website changes daily. It is designed for you to listen and practice your pronunciation every day with common sentences and questions English speakers use often.
- IDEA: The International Dialects of English Archive http://web.ku.edu/idea/index.htm Do you want to hear what different dialects of English sound like? This site has hundreds of recordings of people from all over the world, speaking English. For example, click on "North America," then "United States of America." Now, choose a state to hear several people from that state talk about their lives and read passages from books.
- List of Dialects of the English Language (from Wikipedia--with recordings) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language More information about dialects of English. Listen to recordings of speakers representing the various dialects.
- Okanagan College http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/ This site is great for practice with individual sounds. Choose the symbol of the sound you need to practice and try the activities.
- The POSE Test (Pronunciation of Spoken English) http://eslactivities.com/pt/ will help you find what sounds and other aspects of English you need to improve. The POSE test is part of continuing linguistic research. Please complete all five sections of the test and print out your result. (You will need headphones but no microphone).
- Pronunciation Power App http://www.englishlearning.com/products/learn-english-app/
- Rachel's English http://rachelsenglish.com Rachel's video lessons will really help you improve your pronunciation. Try it!
- Ronan’s Online Karaoke. http://www.ronandowling.com/karaoke/ This is not a very good karaoke player, but it has a good selections of popular songs and lyrics in English.
- Vowel Sounds of American English http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/newstart.html Recorded samples of words with selected vowel sounds.
- Vowels & Consonants (Peter Ladefoged) http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/contents.html Recorded vowel and consonant sounds of American and British English.