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Pronunciation

Step Forward: Oxford University Press Site sticky icon

Oxford University Press has online activities for their texts. Here's the Step Forward site's page.

BBC Learning English sticky icon

BBC Learning English has lots of activities and interesting things to do related to learning English.

Sounds of American English sticky icon

The University of Iowa's Sounds of English lets you pick sounds that you want to hear and see diagrams of how they are pronounced.

American English Pronunciation Practice: Minimal Pairs sticky icon

Minimal Pairs Practice gives you the opportunity to choose between two similar sounding words.

Ship or Sheep sticky icon

Here's a site for working on words with small differences (minimal pairs).

Phonetic Alphabet: Stuff.co.uk

Here's a site for learning the phonetic alphabet symbols that you may find in books.

Longman's Dictionary of American English

Longman's Dictionary of American English has an online version. It requires free registration, but offers all of the features of the CD that is offered with the dictionary.

 

Kids are Cool

Kids R Cool is a Chinese site that offers English learning games. The pronunciation games time you and give you a chance to check your listening>

SpokenSkills

SpokenSkills allows you to listen to words and then record your own voice and compare it  with the native speaker.

HowJSay: Instant Pronouncing Dictionary

Using a British accent, HowJSay plays the pronunication of a word.

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