Pronunciation Resources

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Top Practice Sites

• RachelsEnglish.com
• Sounds of American English
• Englishcentral.com 
• Sozoexchange.com

Other Sites

• American English Pronunciation Practice
• LearningEnglish Pronunciation
• EnglishPronunciation at EnglishClub.com
• English Pronunciation/Listening (OkanaganUniversity, Canada)
• Phonetics: English Sound Library (Universityof Iowa)
• Eva Easton - Pronuciation
• Emily's Pronunciation Class
• Listen & Repeat Machine
• Ear Training
• Teaching Pronunciation

Sources of Practice Audio

• Elllo.org
• Breakingnewsenglish.com
• Esl-lab.com
  Music related (more fun than pronuciation related)
• Lyricstraining.com
• Singsnap.com (online Karaoke)

Chatbots are automated chat tools that can be pre-programmed say certain things or  interact with users. Text to speech chatbots allow you to create a speaking character (or  avatar) Naturalreaders.com Voki.com Oddcast.com (multilingualdemo) Vozme.com(allows you to create an mp3 file from text) ReadtehWords.com(allows you to create an mp3 file from text)

Instructional Videos

• TarleSpeech
  Samples
  
  • Frequently Mispronounced Words - Wood,  Women, Beach , Version
  • Confusing Word Pairs - coffee/copy, live/leave, world/word
• Seattle English
  Samples
  
  • Introduction to Long Vowels
  • Short Vowel Sounds
  • Schwa + r Sound
  • Long O
  • Compare short i, short e, and long e

  RachelsEnglish.com:

Consonants:  'v' as in 'van' - 'f' as in 'fan' , 'th' as in 'thin' -  'th' as in 'this',  'z' as in 'zip' - 's' as in 'sip' , 'sh' as in 'ship' - 'dj' as in 'measure', 'ch' as in 'char' -  'j' as in 'jar',  'l' as in 'lap' ,  'r' as in 'run', 'w' as in 'will'
Vowels: . 'ah' as in 'ai' as in 'buy'  'father' ,  aa' as in 'bat' ,  eh' as in 'bed', 'ih' as in 'sit' , 'ee' as in 'she' ,  'oo' as in 'boo' , 'ur' as in 'her' ,  'aw' as in 'law' ,  'uh' as in 'pull' , 'uh' as in 'butter'.  'uh' as in 'supply' , 'ow' as in 'now', 'oh' as in 'no' , 'oy' as in 'toy' ,  'ay' as in 'say' , 'ew' as in 'few'

Stress and Intonation Videos 

• Word Stress: Reduced vs. Unstressed
• Word Stress: Function Words
• Word Stress: Content Words
• Listening Comprehension: Word Stress in 2-Syllable Words
• Intro to Word Stress in American English
• Jennifer ESL - Stress - 9a  9b  9c
• Jennifer ESL - Intonation - 10a 10b 10c 10d