Pronunciation Patterns offers over one hundred pronunciation tips and phonics rules to help you understand the phonetic patterns existing in English words. Since English is a lingua franca, a mixture of many languages, there are exceptions to the rules. Nevertheless, the tips and rules offered in Pronunciation Patterns can help you remember the correct pronunciation of 80% of English words without using IPA.

This is very common to all English learners because our minds are hardwired to some sounds and we don't have the mouth muscularity to pronounce some sounds. It takes practice to reform some pronunciation habits. I want to share with you an example of mine. I had a hard time saying the OW sound and the OR sound. Therefore, I had a really hard time saying the words such as house vs. horse, loud vs. lord, now vs. nor, etc. However, I could say how, or, sore, and bore with little trouble.

Tee-NOS, the 'Tee' is pronounced like a tee in golf. Or if you are British, like the tea in a cup of tea :-)

Pronunciation Patterns is designed to help ESL students to learn English pronunciation. It not only offers hundred useful phonics rules to help you learn English pronunciation, but also groups words by the patterns to practice English pronunciation. For example, I had a hard time pronouncing the word "folder" but not the words "hold" and "old". By grouping the words "folder", "hold", "old" together, I can easily recall that the "folder" shall be pronounced as f-old-er.

It's interesting how there is sporadic and continuing interest in Boudica. For pronunciation please see http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/boudica.htm. Search the page for the word pronounce and learn that the spelling of the name is uncertain. Although "Boudica" is followed by Salway and Frere, among others, it probably should be "Boudica", which means "victory" in Celtic and would be the equivalent of the modern "Victoria".

Yes. Learning correct pronunciation can help you improve listening. As the matter of fact, improving your English pronunciation is the best way to improve your listening. Let us assume that you know the word indict and you happen to mispronounce it as indikt (The correct pronunciation is indIt). Because you mispronounce the word, you will never hear it even though the word indict is on TV everyday. Moreover, you won't even get the repetition you need to learn the word in sentences.

Let us understand the differences between accent and pronunciation first. If you have an accent other than American accent, it means either you stress words differently from or pronounce some sounds consistently differently from how Americans would. That is why British sound differently from Americans do. Therefore, to reduce your foreign accent, you have to improve your English pronunciation.

From my own experience, adult English learners have a hard time distinguishing two sounds no matter how many times a teacher or tutor tries to correct them. If you don't believe me, try to teach Americans to say your name in your native tongue. Pronunciation Patterns offers patterns and rules to help our users to remember the correct pronunciation of English words so that they can reproduce accordingly.

Yes, Pronunciation Patterns can help you improve your vocabulary. We believe that English learners should use both phonics-based and the whole language learning methods to learn English. Therefore, Pronunciation Patterns offers phonics rules to help you improve your spelling and you can add new words from your readings into your learning list to help expand your vocabulary. In addition, we have online pictures and translations in multiple languages to help you learn the new words. Yes.

The correct pronunciation of Lieutenant in the Australian Services is 'lef-tenant'. The US use the other version. Strangely the American version is closer to historically accurate. The word has it's origins in the ranks of the Roman Army and has come through French and middle English. A 'caput' was the equivalent a Captain. The word roughly translates to 'leader' or 'head of a group'. The rank next down would hold 'tenant' (authority) in his absence, or "in lieu of the tenant".

There is no easy way to pronounce the "TH" sound. For the words containing the "TH" sound, you just have to make conscious efforts putting your tongue between the teeth when you pronounce the TH sound. Once your subconscious mind accepts the action, you will automatically pronounce the TH sound. Pronunciation Patterns list all the words containing the "TH" sound for you to practice with.

Don't think you'll be the only one! We mostly use very simple chants, and we practice them just before the ritual so that everyone knows how the melody goes. Some of us are notorious for not being able to remember even a few words, and we just sort of hum along. With most of our rituals, we provide a song sheet to help you.

No! Any words, which you have to say, (the vows) I will say phrase by phrase for you to repeat them after me.

Common pronunciation is Iz-zurd (like "lizard") and Iz-ard (like "is hard"). Eddie has said he doesn't care which way it's pronounced although he himself says "Iz-ard" so I guess that's the way to say it.

The i is a short, as in Finland, and it should not be pronounced as in Microsoft. Likewise, the u should not be pronounced as in sucks. Linux rhymes exactly with cynics.

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I have personally used this product and the product has helped me improve my pronunciation. Now I have obtained my MBA from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the top US MBA programs by Wall Street Journal and Business Week. The methods in Pronunciation Patterns are derived from the Between the Lions program which can be seen on PBS.

Pronunciation Patterns is based on phonics, a scientific method used by American educators to help American children to learn how to read, to help you improve English pronunciation and spelling. With the feedback from my clients and teachers, the latest professional version 4.0 is improved to not only offer pronunciation solution, but also a complete English learning solution. You can learn more about the professional version of Pronunciation Patterns at our methodology page.

Learn the tips in the Alphabet section to realize that English is not a phonetic language. Realizing that you can't just read words directly can help you avoid mispronouncing new words. If you have trouble remembering IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) and recalling the phonetic transcripts for English words, I recommend you to learn APA (American Phonetic Alphabet) and phonics rules together instead.

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Have you noticed that in learning English, the words that are easy to remember are often the "weird" ones (e.g. tintinnabulation) It all depends on the associations formed in your brain. Tintinnabulation may have stuck easily with you while it could be somebody else's pet peeve. However, weirdness often implies uniqueness which helps you avoid memory interference.

Pronunciation Patterns covers all 20 vowel sounds and 24 consonant sounds. It has both the standard IPA or the standard APA to help you learn the 44 English sounds. Download the demo to learn the long A, short A, and AR sounds now. Pronunciation Patterns has twenty six alphabet rules, sixteen silent letter rules, fourteen double consonant rules, eighteen two vowel rules, and five ending rules. Download the demo now.

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Yes, in fact, Pronunciation Patterns is one of the best tools to help adults learn how to read because it is based on phonics and it is designed for adult non-English speakers. The researchers in Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have found that adults with dyslexia can improve with phonics-based instruction. To learn more about this research report, please click here.

Pronunciation always has been a difficult task for ESL teachers to teach. Even the experienced teachers will just ask students repeat a list of words which have similar patterns. Since there are many students in a class, the teachers will not be able to correct each student and the students don't have enough time to practice English pronunciation. With Pronunciation Patterns, now teachers can assign students to work on each group of words individually.