PRONUNCIATION


Dearest creature in creation

Studying English pronunciation,

   I will teach you in my verse

   Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy;

   Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;

   Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

From "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1922)


Vowels and diphthongs from the English File series (Oxford)

Vowels and diphthongs from the English File series (Oxford)

                English consonants and their place of articulation.

ONLINE INTERACTIVE CHARTS

English Club: Interactive Phonemic ChartOnline, no need to download. British English. Any Level. 

Phonetics Focus. Cambridge English Online British English. Any level. 

The color vowel chart. American English at State. An interactive colour-coded vowel chart. American English. Any level. 

IPA Chart. The sounds of all languages. 

MOBILE APPS

British Council Learn English Sounds Right. A free application to practise the sounds of English: vowels, consonants and diphthongs with example words. British English. Any level.


VIDEO AND AUDIO

BBC Leaning English. Pronunciation Tips. Although this webpage has been archived and is no longer updated, it includes one of the most complete and systematic introductions to the sound system of British English. Clicking on each symbol of a phonemic chart will take you to a video about that particular sound. This section also includes useful information, downloadable interactive videos and quizzes, and three radio programmes on the topic of pronunciation. British English. Levels A2-B1. 

Pronunciation Skills with Adrian Underhill (YouTube video series) A 39-episode video series on the pronunciation of every sound of English and feature of connected speech, following Adrian Underhill's physical approach. For teachers and students. British English. Levels B2-C2.

Adrian Underhill, Introduction to teaching pronunciation workshop. Levels C1-C2. 


Pronunciation of -ed endings 

AUDIO

Pronunciation of -ed endings. BBC World service. It includes an audio programme on the pronunciation of -ed endings, an explanation in writing and 2 quizzes. British English. Levels A2-C1.

VIDEO 

Pronunciation of -ed endings. BBC Learning English. Learner's Questions. A video that explains the rules of pronunciation of -ed endings. British English. Levels B1-C1. 

Ed Preterit. A song by Charlotte ESL in music. A song with mnemonics on how to pronounce -ed endings.  American English. Any level. 

GAMES

Cambridge English Language Assessment Online Games

Pronunciation of -s /-es endings 

VIDEO

Pronunciation of -s /-es endings . BBC Learning English. Learner's Questions A video that explains the rules of pronunciation of -s / -es endings. British English. Levels A2-C1. 

Connected Speech

VIDEO

Tim's Pronunciation Workshop. BBC Learning English. A 30-episode video series on connected speech phenomena, with real-life examples from people on the street. If you click on the link to the BBC Learning English website for each video you will get the transcript of each episode and a quiz. British English. Levels B2-C1. 

Stress, Rhythm and Intonation 

VIDEO

Stress Timing and Rhythm in Sentences. Simple English Videos. An explanatory video. British and American English. B2-C1 levels. 


Dr Geoff Lindsey YouTube Channel. Videos on rhythm, stress, intonation, connected speech and accents of English. B2-C1 levels. 

Accents of English

VIDEO

Simple English Videos Pronunciation Playlist. A collection of 19 videos, most of them devoted to the differences between British and American Pronunciation. Levels A2-C1

AUDIO

Accents of English. Wells. This is a collection of recordings of the same text passage in different accents of English, along with descriptions of the defining features of each accent. The recordings were originally issued in cassettes that accompanied the book by J.C. Wells The Accents of English. Levels C1-C2.

Forvo. This is a dictionary in which you can look up the pronunciation of words in different accents (anyone can record their pronunciation). Any level. 

Other Resources

Tongue twister collection A collection of 593 tongue twisters in English. Mixed levels. 

Longman Online Dictionary Interactive exercises. Interactive online exercises on stress, syllables, sound recognition of phonemes and the difference between British and American English. Mixed Levels. 

Shadowing technique. Mixed Levels.

Youglish. Online tool in which you type in a word and it will search Youtube to give you hundreds of examples of people saying that word. You can also select US, UK or AUS to hear how these varieties of English differ. Mixed Levels.