Welcome to the Pronunciation Page:
ACCENT TRAINING:
A useful Series of 5 minutes videos on how to make yourself understood
- Overcoming Sluggish Articulation
- Speaking English Clearly without slowing down
- Articulation Exercises
- Articulation: Tense vs Relaxed
- Self Correcting and Best Way to Practice
- Breathing Correctly to Improve your Accent #1
- Breathing Correctly to Improving your Accent Part 2
- Breathing Correctly to Improve Your Accent Part 3
- Breathing Correctly to Improve Your Accent Part 4
ACCENT TRAINING BY LANGUAGE GROUP
- American Accent Training for Chinese Speakers
- American Accent Training for Vietnamese Speakers
- American Accent Training for Korean Speakers
- American Accent Training for Japanese Speakers
- American Accent Training for Indian Speakers
- American Accent Training for Persian or Farsi Speakers
- American Accent Training for Russian Speakers
- American Accent Training for Arabic Speakers
- American Accent Training for Filipino and Spanish Speakers
Pronunciation Basics:
Consonants and Vowels
If you want to speak English well, people must be able to understand you. This does not mean your pronunciation must be perfect, but it does mean it must be understandable.
The person who is listening to you shouldn't have to work hard at understanding everything you say, or constantly ask you what you mean.
If
you live in another country, or even in Canada, the United States,
Australia, New Zealand or Britain, chances are that you have some kind
of accent. That's O.K., but at some point you will need to work on
your pronunciation. Since you come from 100s of different countries and
have different languages, you need some kind of symbol that expresses
the English sounds you need to learn.
Knowing and understanding these symbols are essential when you are looking up new words in a dictionary. If you know what the symbols mean, as well as how words are divided into syllables and where the words should be stressed, you will be well on your way to learning how to pronounce new words.
Knowing and understanding these symbols are essential when you are looking up new words in a dictionary. If you know what the symbols mean, as well as how words are divided into syllables and where the words should be stressed, you will be well on your way to learning how to pronounce new words.
The International Phonetic Association has developed specific symbols that can be used by any language group in the world to denote English sounds.
THE IPA: International Phonetic Association Symbols
Vowels and Consonants
International Phonetic Symbols Interactive NEW
Click on any symbol to hear the sound
Daily Pronunciation Practice
Specific Daily Exercises To Improve Your Pronunciation
Vowels and Consonants - Phonetics: Why It is important to learn phonetics
- The International Phonetic Symbols : Vowel Sounds
- Mouth Positions for vowels and difficult consonants
- English Pronunciation Vowel Sounds
- Interactive Phonetic Sounds
- Animated Phonetic Sounds
- The soft palate (video) from Rachel's English
- Silent Letters PDF file
English Vowels - The IPA Vowel Chart
- English vowel blends handout
- Vowels for ESL students
- Vowels from American English Online
- Vowel sounds with R (handout)
- Vowels in Context video)
- How to Develop a Neutral Accent Part 1
- Vowel Sounds
- American Accent Training Part 2/i/ as in meet
- American Accent Training Part 5 /ɛ/ as in get
- Long E as in fEET, mEAt,fIEld, Me NEW
- Practice Long E NEW
- Long E as in FEET (video and practice)
- Ah as in FATHER from Rachel's English
- aa as in BAT from Rachel's English
- eh as in BED from Rachel's English
- "eh" as in bed, dead, said from American PronunciationNEW
- Practice "eh" as in bed, said, dead NEW
- Short i as in SIT from Rachel's English
- AY as in SAY from Rachel's English
- Short i as in SHIP ( PRACTICE)
- Heel or hill? and other embarrassing mistakes
The Schwa Sound
- How to Pronounce the Schwa from Rachel's English
- The Schwa from BBC Learning English
- The Schwa from English Podcasts
- Practice: Schwa Prediction
- Schwa Practice 2
SOUNDS AND SPELLING
English Diphthongs
English Consonants - IPA Consonant Chart
- Consonants for ESL Students
- English consonant sounds
- Consonants from Learn English Online
- "T" vs "D" Sounds from Rachel's English
- The "P" and "B" Sounds from Rachel's English
- The "T " Sounds from Rachel's English
- The "CH" vs "JJ" Consonants from Rachel's English
- The "SH" and DJ Consonants
- The Many Sounds of "S" from Rachel's English
- "Z" vs "JJ" from Rachel's English
- The "N" Sound from Rachel's English
- Consonant sounds PDF file
- Consonant Blends PDF file
- L after long vowels
- The "R" Sound from Rachel's English
- The "R" Sound
- The "R" Sound in Clusters from Rachel's English
- The "R" Sound From Fun Easy English
- The TH Sound ( Stacey Hagen)
- The W Sound from English Meeting
Ship or Sheep?
Minimal Pairs Sounds:
- Erection vs Election Part 1New
- Election vs Erection Part 2 New
- P and B
- R and L
- T and D
- F and V
- 60 minimal pairs in 4 minutes from VOA
Practice with Minimal Pairs
- 25 Minimal Pair Practices from American English
- Perfect your English with Minimal Pair Practice
- Minimal Pairs Activities focused on specific problems for 30 language groups *****
- 50 minimal pair practices from English Club
- heel or hill
- Sheep vs Ship
- Man vs Men
- Duck vs Dock
- Boat vs bought
- made vs met
- Pool vs Brook
- Pan vs Pen
Pronunciation Games
- Vowel Game
- Long and Short Vowel Game
- Sound Tumbler Source BBC.com
- The Vowel Machine
- International Collection of Tongue Twisters
- Vowels
- Intonation Game: Source Englishmedialab.com
Difficult Words
Stress, Rhythm and Intonation - How to Improve Your Spoken English and Sound More like a Native Speaker
- Syllable Timed vs Stress Timed Language
- Rachel's Blog English word and sentence stress
- Rachel's Pronunciation Site (You Tube channel with several playlists and a total 241 videos)
- Sentence Rhythm
- Rhythm and Stress in Sentences Rule 1 Basics NEW
- Intonation, Rhythm and Stress Rule 2 (Complex Meaning) NEW
- Intonation, Rhythm and Stress Rule 3: Pause NEW
- Intonation in Questions Rule 5
Syllable Stress in Words
Practice with Syllable Stress
Sentence Rhythm and Stress - Word Stress in Sentences (Stacey Hagen)
- Unstressed Words in English Sentences
- Word Stress based on position in the sentence
- Practice with Sentence Rhythm
- Speaking in Thought Groups Part 1 (Learn to pause naturally by grouping your words into thoughts).
- Speaking in Thought Groups Part 2
- Understanding Fast English Review (Stacey Hagen)
- Dropped Sounds Stacey Hagen)
- Reductions with "H"
- Reductions with "H" part 2
- Connected Speech from BBC English
- How to Understand native Speakers fast questions
- Past Participles 1 (Stacey Hagen)
- Past Participles 2 (Understanding Fast English)
- How to Pronounce Contractions SOURCE: Rachel's English.com
Linking - Introduction to Linking
- Linking consonant ts to vowels
- Linking vowel to vowel from American English pronunciation
- Linking with Vowels 1 from Understanding Spoken English
- Linking with Vowels 2 from Understanding Spoken English
Intonation - Rhythm and Intonation Rule 1
- Rhythm and Intonation Part 2
- Understanding WH Questions Part 1 (Stacey Hagen)
- Understanding WH Questions Part 2 (Stacey Hagen)
- Understanding WH Part 3 Questions Stacey Hagen
- Tag Questions in Spoken English (Stacey Hagen)
Intonation Drills ( 10 activities)
Practice English Intonation
Plato Place the tonic
Repeat After Me: New
Imitating English Phrases and Sentences on Exercise
Pronunciation Tests New
- 90 Pronunciaion Tests: What Word Do You Hear? from English Test Store
- 135 Quizzes: Word Stress Which Word Has the Main Stress? from English test Store
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