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Macmillan has just released its mobile Sounds App for the Android market. It was previously only available for the Apple market. You can download the Android version from here.
Please share your opinions if you have used this app. Related posts:Cockney Read More...
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If you've got an Apple or Android phone, you might like this pronunciation application from Macmillan, based on Adrian Underhill's chart. I haven't got such a phone, I'm afraid, so I haven't been able to test it. If you have managed to test this application, Read More...
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Those of you who have read Teaching & Learning Pronunciation would have probably watched Jennifer's video lessons on vowels, although I'm not sure if all of you had realised that there were more videos apart from the one I embedded. You can navigate through Read More...
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A lot of teachers shy away from teaching pronunciation or they think it isn't important for learners to know the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols. No doubt they have their reasons, but I often get asked by students, 'But how do I learn how Read More...
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Much has been said about the differences between American and British English, so much so that any EFL course, from Andorra to Auckland, will dedicate at least one lesson to this topic. One can be forgiven to think that these are the only two significant Read More...
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Check this out, people! What do you do when you need to write down a phonetic transcription? Perhaps you need it in a handout, or a document, or you're creating a game like one of mine. Some of you may copy the transcription from an online dictionary Read More...
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As I mentioned in the previous post, Zondle is a beta site, and I can't help but be excited about it. They have a whole section on phonics which is screaming to be investigated. I've been doing some tests and suggesting certain things to the creators. Read More...
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Have you ever wondered how to pronounce 'bite off more than you can chew'? Or 'harry caterpillar'? If you have, surf on over to FORVO and listen to words and phrases not only in English, but in 267 other languages, too!
You can ask for help on something Read More...
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A lot of Spanish learners (and, no doubt, other Latin learners, too) have problems pronouncing the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) correctly. Often, they either pronounce it as in their own language, or they confuse letters, especially e with i. Last year, José Read More...
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Here is the next game on the sounds of English series. This is to practise the short vowel /ʌ/ and the long vowel /ɑː/.
Click on the image above to begin the game. Try as many times as necessary for you to get 100% right. This is slightly more challenging Read More...
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More on the sounds of English. This is to practise the short vowel ʊ and the long vowel u:
Click on the image above to begin the game. Try as many times as necessary for you to get 100% right. This should be easy compared to some of the others on this Read More...
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Continuing the series on the sounds of English activities, here's yet another one. This is to practise the short vowel ɪ and the long vowel i: It's a very important difference, and learning it well may save you from future embarrassments. See The Man Read More...
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Yesterday, I published a rhyming word game. Continuing the series on sounds of English activities, I've created a trickier one. This is more suited for higher level students. The clues are expressions of Cockney Rhyming Slang. I'd recommend your reading Read More...
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Click on the image to begin the game. You'll have to find the image whose word rhymes with the clues. Some of the images may not be plain obvious, so you might need a few attempts. I'll give a hint for one of them: it's not a bucket!
If you want to see Read More...
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Most learners of English have problems pronouncing past tenses correctly. Fortunately, there are only three different ways of pronouncing the ending of regular verbs, which can be expressed by the phonetic symbols of /id/, /d/ and /t/. Even more fortunately Read More...
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