Expert English Pronunciation, Accent Reduction & Fluency
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Want to hear what English accents sound like in Belfast, London, Ontario, Alabama, Singapore, Delhi and lots of other places? At soundcomparisons.com you’ll hear the same word spoken with many, many accents. It’s amazing that we can understand each other! The great thing Read More …
I’ve been playing with different software, looking for good tools that help English learners and practitioners improve their pronunciation. Today’s post is about SoundCloud. I found the following clip on SoundCloud, put up there by someone else, and it’s the Read More …
Angle Heart, a Facebook Page fan, requested more information about strong and weak forms. This is so easy to teach in person, and so hard to write about, because strong and weak forms are about sounds, not written words. You’ll Read More …
Today a client encountered an unfamiliar word ending in -ture; I think it was overture. So we had a brief review of the pronunciation of this end syllable. It can be part of a noun, as in the word nature, or Read More …
Thank you for your warm response to my CATESOL presentation on April 24th. I enjoyed speaking to and with you. My only regret is that I limited our time to 45 minutes, because there’s so much to talk about. Several Read More …
Want to hear English spoken in every possible regional accent from around the world? This amazing website/database, www.soundcomparisons.com, sponsored by the University of Edinburgh and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and created by Paul Haggerty, charts out and models Read More …
Fonetiks.org demonstrates different accents in English, as these speakers from all over the English-speaking world pronounce the same words. If you recognize any of the flags above, they represent some of the variations on English pronunciation you can listen to–with Read More …