American English Pronunciation Practice (For ESL/EFL)

American English Pronunciation Practice (For ESL/EFL)
Game-like Minimal Pair Practice using Flash and MP3 Files

You can do a 4-minute review first, if you like.

• Video with Minimal Pairs from Lesson 2 to Lesson 13

Minimal Pair Practice & Quizzes

Each file has four MP3-encoded minimal pairs and is about 40Kb

• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 1: 13-30, ... (84Kb - the largest file)
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 2: ferry-very, ... (40Kb)
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 3: late-let, ... (37Kb)
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 4: lake-rake, ... (40Kb)
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 5: fond-found, ... (40Kb)
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 6: these-Z's, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 7: said-sad, ...
  There is also a Video of Lesson 7.
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 8: best-vest, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 9: not-note, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 10: thick-sick, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 11: bus-boss, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 12: see-she, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 13: made-mad, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 14: run-rung, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 15: look-luck, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 16: climb-crime, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 17: hot-hat, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 18: they-day, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 19: run-ran, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 20: lugs-lungs, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 21: not-nut, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 22: thought-taught, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 23: eat-it, ...
• Minimal Pairs - Lesson 24: few-hue, ...

How to Use These Pages

• 1. Click the "Start" arrow button.
• 2. Click the words at the top to practice.
• 3. Click "Listen, Then Choose."
• 4. Click the answer.
• (Do #3 and #4 a few times.)
• 5. Click the arrow button to go to the next one.

"Listen and Repeat" Videos

Focusing on Accents

• Two-Syllable Words Accented on the First Syllable
• Two-Syllable Words Accented on the Second Syllable

"L" and "R"

• Listen & Repeat: 145 Words with “L” /l/
• Listen & Repeat: 68 Words with “R” /r/

R-controlled Vowels (Also called R-colored Vowels)

• Listen & Repeat: 62 Words with “R” /ɝː/ /ər/ were, her, other, ...
• Listen & Repeat: 40 Two-syllable Words Ending with /ɝː/ /ər/ dollar, member, soccer, ...
• Listen & Repeat: 33 Words with “R” /ɔːr/ /or/ for, or, more, ...
• Listen & Repeat: 29 Words with “R” /ɛər/ /âr/ there, where, care, …
• Listen & Repeat: 28 Words with “R” /ar/ are, part, large, …
• Coming soon:
  here, near, clear, ...
  fire, wire, tire, desire, ...

Focusing on Vowels

• Words with the OW /aʊ/ Diphthong - Part 1 - 49 Words (now, how, wow, …)
• Words with the OW /aʊ/ Diphthong - Part 2 - 37 Words (plow, bow, brow, …)
• More coming soon.

Focusing on Final Consonants

• Listen & Repeat: 60 Words That End With /p/
• More coming soon.

Focusing on Consonant Clusters

• Listen & Repeat: 114 Words With /st/
• More coming soon.

More Videos

• See our blog with links to YouTube videos:
  ESL Videos: Category: ‘Pronunciation’

Songs & Poems

• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• There was a young lady from Niger.

Tongue Twisters

Listen and practice each phrase slowly, then practice them quickly.

• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?
• Rubber baby buggy bumpers
• She sells seashells by the seashore.

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