Quiz: What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

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This is a fun quiz. The questions relate to many of the sounds that we talk about in class.

Answer all of the questions and let me know what American accent you have :)

Dan

English Pronouncing Dictionary with Instant Sound Free Online

English Pronouncing Dictionary with Instant Sound Free Online

This is a good tool for those of you trying to pronounce unfamiliar words. While many dictionaries have an audio feature, those are most computerized voices. This is an actual voice (at least it sounds like it) and, thus, a much better reference.

Dan

Assessment Paragraphs with stress and important vowels marked

This goes with the reading below. It is a marked up version of the paragraphs noting sentence stress and important vowels (using the IPA symbols from our list).

Please let me know if you see any mistakes or overlooked items in the document. This goes for both the pronunciation class students and anyone else who comes upon this.

Click here to download the document

Dan

Pronunciation Assessment Examples

Here are the examples that I promised for the assessment last Friday. Of course, if you haven't taken the assessment yet, you're cheating by listening to these :)

They are split into 2 files: Bariatric Surgery for Morbid Obesity and Why Do We Need Doctors.

I suggest that you download these by right-clicking and choosing "Save Target As...". That way, you can play them over and over again.

Dan