Useful links for Pronunciation

 If you feel your pronunciation could improve, try one of these.

My advice, 'Don't give up!'

• American English Pronunciation

A good place to work on the sounds you have trouble with. You'll find exercises with minimal pairs, tongue twisters, and even videos.

• English Central

A great site where you find videos about many topics. You can record yourself and get instant feedback. As they say, 'English Central makes improving your English fun and effective by turning popular web videos into powerful language learning experiences. EnglishCentral users watch videos, learn vocabulary, speak aloud and receive instant pronunciation feedback.' 

• BBC Pronunciation tips

A more British pronunciation. A very comprehensive site with videos demonstrating each sound and very helpful exercises.

• English Club

Rules and exercises on word stress, sentence stress...

• English Pronunciation

Very softly guided exercises and explanations to work on the sounds you have trouble with.

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• Forvo

Forvo  is not an app, but it is a website worth mentioning on this list. It can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not phonetic is trying to figure out how to pronounce the words. Forvo hosts hundreds of recordings of word pronunciations by native speakers. Along with word pronunciations, Forvo provides some basic demographic information about each language. Forvo's content is user-supported and user-generated. New pronunciations are added on a regular basis.

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• Read the Words

Type in  your text and it will be read aloud to you. You can choose if it will be read by a man, a woman, American, British, fast or slow. A fantastic instrument.

Once it's read you can download the audiofile as an MP3 and listen to it anywhere. Of course, it's FREE.

Here's a little video to show you how it works.

• The sounds of American English

Where to put your lips, your tongue and everything else to obtain a certain sound is demonstrated, explained and shown.

• Phonetics focus

Interactive stuff to work on pronounciation and phonetics by Cambridge English Online.

• Say again??

Here is a site by Eurocontrol where you can refresh your knowledge on phraseology. You can listen to examples of each phrase and get used to a wide variety of foreign accents.

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• Rachel's English

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