LearnEnglish Sounds Right 4+
English Pronunciation Chart
British Council
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Start practising your English pronunciation with the British Council's free phonemic chart!
LearnEnglish Sounds Right is the British Council’s FREE pronunciation chart for learners and teachers of English worldwide.
LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
Do you have difficulty with the sounds and pronunciation of the English language, or with understanding the symbols of the phonemic alphabet? With LearnEnglish Sounds Right on your phone or tablet you can practise anywhere and anytime. Just tap a sound and you will hear it. Tap the downward arrow sign and listen to three example words with that sound.
TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
Do you use phonemic script in class to help your students with their pronunciation? With LearnEnglish Sounds Right installed on your class set of devices, or your students’ own devices, you can teach the individual sounds and symbols easily.
* The pure vowels are arranged the same way as in the IPA chart: according to mouth shape (left to right, lips wide / round – top to bottom, jaw closed / open).
* The diphthongs are grouped in rows according to their second sound.
* The consonants are arranged from left (front of mouth) to right (back of mouth). The top two rows of consonants are paired (top row – unvoiced, second row – voiced). When you tap a plosive consonant, the schwa (ə) appears. This is because the plosives were recorded with a schwa for clarity.
We hope you enjoy using this chart!
Please contact us at learnenglish.mobile@britishcouncil.org if you have any comments or ideas for future versions.
Get more great English learning apps from the British Council at:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/apps
What’s New
Version 2.0.9
v.2.0.9:
- We’d love to hear your opinion about pronunciation apps. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey we’ve added in the app, we’d really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks so much! LearnEnglish Mobile team
Ratings and Reviews
Fun with English
--Update: I intended four stars. Don't know what happened. Again, good work. --
As a linguist it was quite fun to find this app in the store. I'm sure I'll be pulling it out to explain basic concepts to friends and family. Thanks for the hard work. Beautifully done.
Three tips. First, it would be nice to have each sound recorded in word initial, medial, and final position, where possible. Currently the reasoning behind the selection of words is unclear.
Second, two symbols are off. You've a trilled 'r' were an approximate is intended (should be U+0279, SMALL LETTER TURNED R). Also, I believe you have the wrong sound for your unrounded open-mid back vowel (U+028C, SMALL LETTER TURNED V), though this may be a dialect difference.
Third, it would be nice to have several major dialects to choose from. As an American immigrant to Australia, I can tell you two I'd nominate for inclusion.
Good app
Very helpful but the sound was very small
I wish the creator will fix it
Developer Response ,
Hi there, thank you for your review. We are sorry the sound was too small for you. We are going to suspend this app very soon, it is unlikely we will update the app in the meantime. Please email us at learnenglish.mobile@britishcouncil.org for the PC version of the phonemic chart. Thank you!
Wow
Tomorrow I have an English exam and I need this app
Developer Response ,
Thanks a lot for your review and we hope you continue to enjoy learning English with our app!
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Information
- Seller
- British Council
- Size
- 34.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © British Council
- Price
- Free
Supports
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.