Recommendations For The Best Speaking/Pronunciation Sites?

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   EFL Geek on March 13, 2008 at 5:59 am

   I recommend this site with animated sagittal diagrams to go along with the sounds
   http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

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   Crystal on March 13, 2008 at 8:37 am

   For Pronunciation:
   http://www.shiporsheep.com/

   For Listening to real everyday English:
   http://www.bombenglish.com/ (good for Korean students)
   http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/index.cfm

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   David Smailes on March 13, 2008 at 2:01 pm

   http://www.howjsay.com/

   and a selection here: http://www.eslinusa.com/free_ESL_learning_resources_Speaking.html

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4. 

   Ronaldo on March 14, 2008 at 6:30 am

   Hi Larry!

   To practice pronunciation:

   home.nordnet.fr/~rmaufroid/pupitre/sounds/soundslien.htm

   http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/intermediate/c_pronunciation/pronunciation01/

   http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html

   faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html

   http://www.howjsay.com/

   international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

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   SpellingCity Mayor on March 14, 2008 at 8:53 am

   Larry – I’m not entirely sure what you mean by speaking English but I’d like suggest looking at my site (which is new). SpellingCity.com.

   It’s the start of something really big (I hope). Soon we’ll be on V2 fixing all of todays problems and then, we can upgrade the games to audio games, add definitions etc etc etc.

   Your blog, and Learning with Computers, are great. thanks. john

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6. 

   Laura on March 14, 2008 at 2:58 pm

   Some interesting pronunciation tips here:
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/pron/

   And wonderful games to get familiar with the phonetic symbols in the following site:

   http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/

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   Tom Zurinskas on March 14, 2008 at 6:34 pm

   For an English-based phonetic spelling go to truespel.com. The free converter there changes web pages to phonetic spelling. The text converter there changes type or pasted-in text to phonetics. The accent is USA English, taken from popular dictionaries.

   Truespel is simple phonetics based on commonest English spellings of sounds. The 40 English sounds are spelled consistently in truespel notation using no special symbols. Read it and be able to pronounce English in a typical USA English accent.

   Tom Zurinskas
   creator of truespel

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8. 

   Susana Canelo on March 14, 2008 at 11:22 pm

   Here are my own lists:
   http://www.blinklist.com/susanacanelo/speaking/
   http://www.blinklist.com/susanacanelo/pronunciation/

   Maybe there are some sites without any interest, or some of them have been mentioned before. But you can explore them and I’m sure there will be something useful.
   Enjoy it

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