Sounds: The Pronunciation App FREE
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Springer Nature Limited | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
This free version includes Interactive Phonemic Charts for British English and American English. Tap to hear a sound, or tap and hold to hear the sound and an example word.
In the Premium version (now available) you can look up, listen to and record words in the WORDLIST; PRACTISE your pronunciation skills; test yourself with the pronunciation QUIZZES; use the phonemic TYPEWRITER; and LEARN with Top Tips, videos and more!
*** Winner of the British Council ELTons Award 2012 for 'Innovation in learner resources'. The judges felt that “This is a great app – it is easy to navigate, user-friendly, thorough, and, I am sure, innovative.” ***
FREE VERSION FEATURES:
- Interactive Phonemic Chart with high quality audio
- Work in British or American English, and switch between them at any time
- Instructions
- ‘Introduction to the Chart' video
- Tasters of both the Practice and Quiz modes from the Premium version
IN ADDITION, THE PREMIUM VERSION INCLUDES:
- Vocabulary Wordlist (with over 650 words):
> Phonemic transcriptions and audio
> Record your own pronunciation
> Buy additional wordlists in American and British English as in-app purchases
> All new wordlists include both words and phrases
> Show/Hide primary stress marks
- Practice Activities (Listen, Read and Write)
- Quizzes ('3 Minutes' & '3 Lives' modes)
- Phonemic Typewriter for free practice
- Top Ten Tips for Students
- Top Ten Tips for Teachers, including new lesson plans
- ‘Teaching with the Chart' workshop video
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Some of the great user reviews we’ve received:
“Excellent app for teachers and students alike. Takes the guesswork out of pronunciation and helps with memorisation of the chart.”
“I’m an ESL teacher in Mexico and cannot tell you how handy this app will be in my classes. I simply love it!”
“I’ve been studying for a TEFL qualification and I wish I’d found this app sooner!”
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For more information about the chart, the choice of vocabulary included in the Wordlist, and the benefits of Sounds: The Pronunciation App for both language teachers and students, visit the website at www.soundspronapp.com
Reviews
Great but...
Wonder-ful Fan
Great, but it always defaults to British. I wish it would stay on American since I set it (each time I use it) to American.
The premium version does not work in my IPhone
Cireo
Seems great but It is unresponsive in my I-phone.
Interesting
Word Gamer 1
The chart is great for the basics and examples but the app is limited to examples. When you go through the quizzes they want you to BUY more quizzes. It has great potential but it lost me at the purchase line
symbols chart is useful; the rest is quiz games only.
Tyrone Dayum Shoelaces
The first preview image tells you all there is to know about the chart and its usefulness. Worth having for that, but the only other features are both test-your-knowledge games.
English teacher
EOlmsted
This app is a dud. It is completely inoperational. I have seen it work on the iPod, but it won't work on my iOS 6 iPad.
Nonsense!!
StuCreaTorr
All it can do is teach you how to pronounce the "symbols". To illustrate, if you ask someone "how do you pronounce this word?"...it will ask you back "what is its pronunciation symbol?". I've no desire in learning how to write the sound. Dear developer, here's how you can make your app useful. Type in the word, demo its sound, show the symbol if you must. Simple, isn't it?!?
Excellent app.
Redruzek.
Most helpful for singers' diction classes, especially when teaching/learning foreign language pronunciation.
