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Pronuncation of regular verbs
Pronuncation of regular verbs
Read and listen
Read and listen
To listen to articles in The Guardian and read them at the same time, click on the image
Pronunciation tools
Pronunciation tools
Write and listen
Write and listen
Write a text and listen to it in English. To do this, click on the image.
Pronunciation dictionary
Pronunciation dictionary
Check the pronunciation of individual words. To do this, click on the image.
English sounds
English sounds
Phonetic symbols
Phonetic symbols
Watch a video about the phonetic symbols which represent the English sounds. You can also find a chart of the different phonetic symbols. Clicking on each symbol will take you to another page where you can watch a video about that sound.
Practice the pronunciation of the English vowel sounds
Practice the pronunciation of the English diphthongs
Practice the pronunciation of the English consonants here and here
Minimum pairs
Minimum pairs
In this session you'll practice pairs of sounds which are difficult to distiguish for Spanish speakers.
Exercises to distinguish pairs of soundswhich can be easily mixed up
Distinguish the sounds /I/ and /i:/ Watch this video and this other videoand do these **exercises**
Distinguish the sounds /ʊ/ and /uː/ Watch this video and this other video and do these **exercises**
Distinguish the sounds /æ / and / ʌ / Watch this video and this other video and do these exercises (they include the sound /e/ which is pronounced like the Spanish "e")
Distinguish the sounds /ɔː/ and /əʊ/ Watch this video and this other videoand do these **exercises**
Distinguish the sounds /ɒ/ and /əʊ/ Watch this video and this other videoand do these **exercises**
Distinguish the sounds /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ Watch this video and **this other video**
Distinguish the sounds /s/ and /z/ Watch this video and this other video
Stress
Stress
Play this game to practice the **stress in words**
Sounds
Sounds
To practice the pronunciation of the most common sound in English the schwa /ə/ click here
Double contractions
Double contractions
Pronouncing contractions is hard enough, so double contractions can be tricky for English learners. This BBC lesson is great to practice the third conditional. Click here.
Quizzes
Quizzes
Radio programmes
Radio programmes
Listen to these bbc radio programmes and get some tips about how to improve your pronunciation. You can download the tapescripts of the programmes.
Programme 1: sounds and letters, week sounds (schwa), consonant to vowel linking, vowel to vowel linking.
Programme 2: sounds and letters, linking r, connected speech, sounds twinning.
Programme 3: sounds change (assimilation)
A tricky pronunciation poem
A tricky pronunciation poem
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/02/17/english-pronunciation-poem
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