Pronunciation Practice

Need more pronunciation practice? Look at the following collection of pronunciation resources for a number of sounds and letter combinations. There are videos, minimal pair exercises, tongue twisters, dictations and other things to work with the sounds. As an example:

Unit One: TH, as in THINK, BATHROOM, and TEETH.

• Watch this QuickTime movie on the word 'Thought' to see how to correctly make the 'TH' sound (894k).
• Minimal Pairs (178k) In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound. In this case, TH is being compared to other similar sounds. Listen and compare.
• Try this Dictation to practice the differences between TH and other sounds.
• Here is the complete lesson from our workbook in MP3 audio , as well as the PDF version.
• Here's a video of Brian explaining the differences between the voiceless and voiced TH. (7.8mb)
• Listen, practice, and record your voice to have a conversation with a native speaker (microphone required).
• Practice these tongue twisters to improve your TH (microphone required).

Pronunciation Exercises

Perfect Pronunciation Exercises from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary  - 15 pronunciation sessions with 5 pronunciation exercises each. The exercises are quite suitable for class work and independent practice. The full list of exercises is given on one page what is convenient for a teacher to choose the one he needs. As an example, Session 1contains Exercise 1: [f] vs. [v]  (fear vs. veer) Exercise 2: syllable stress Exercise 3: forth/fourth, ascent/assent Exercise 4: [oʊ] vs. [ɑ]  (bold vs. bald) Exercise 5: sentence practice.