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Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English — from short and long vowels to the subtle sounds that make your accent ...

If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options, and free ones, at that. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is an especially important ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What should I do to make my English Language Learners want to learn good pronunciation? And how do I correct students’ pronunciation without hurting their feeling or ...

Paragon Software Group (www.cambridge.org) has released Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary app for Mac OS X and iOS. It’s available for US$14.99 at the Mac App Store and Apple App Store, ...

Words with the letters 'ed' at the end are usually regular past tense verbs like 'started' or adjectives like ‘confused’. The pronunciation of 'ed' can change depending on which sound comes before it ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...