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By Oséias Alves
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.
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"
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’
