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The Merriam-Webster English Learner’s Dictionary has a excellent section called Perfect Pronunciation. You can use the exercises in Perfect Pronunciation to practice difficult vowel sounds and consonant sounds. You can also use it to practice syllable stress and sentence stress. Merriam-Webster’s Perfect Pronunciation Related posts The Best Online Dictionary for American English Pronunciation (0) Why

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Lots of my students have asked me what the best online dictionary is for learning to pronounce American English words. I like to use http://dictionary.reference.com/ because they show both the spelled pronunciation and the IPA spelling. The audio is not terrific though. The Merriam-Webster ESL Learner’s Dictionary has a great section called Pronunciation Exercises that

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While reading an English teaching blog written by one of my colleagues I came across a wonderful visual English dictionary called shahi. When you type a word into the shahi dictionary you receive a definition of the word including some nice slang and idiomatic uses. PLUS shahi includes images of your word aggregated from flickr, google and yahoo

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