The Center for Confident American English Communication

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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I found some interesting American English pronunciation videos developed by Sozo Exchange. These are pronunciation videos of individual English words.  First they model the articulation of the word and then they use the word in a sentence. At this time only a few of the videos that I watched use the IPA to indicate stressed syllables

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