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PHONETICS and 
PRONUNCIATION

PHONETICS

Here you will find some suggestions to improve your pronunciation. 
Watch a video by Mr. Duncan to understand Phonetics.
Mr. Duncan has a list of videos to learn English http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?gl=ES&hl=es&p=F467B6C12B713A03 and a channel in Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/duncaninchina?gl=ES&hl=es
Enjoy them!
Thanks Mr. Duncan!

Mac Millan's Pronunciation Skills

Videos on pronunciation by Adrian Underhill http://www.macmillanenglish.com/pronunciation-skills/

Agenda Web. Phonetic exercises

One of the best summaries I have found on the internet to study Phonetics. Agenda web includes, theory exercises, tables and even listening activities on Phonetics. http://www.agendaweb.org/phonetic.html or http://www.edu.xunta.es/espazoAbalar/sites/espazoAbalar/files/datos/1292489360/contido/axendaweb/phonetic.html
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Cambridge Phonetic Focus

Learn Phonetics playing interactive games, recording yourself or using the phonemic reader http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/. Available on the itunes App store as well...

Transcription Practice by David Brett

http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/transcription%20exercises/index_of_transcription_exercises.htm
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IPA Typewriter

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On this website you can type the phonetic symbols on the net, copy and paste them onto any doc file, and so on. By IPA Typewriter

PRONUNCIATION

YOUENGLISH

You don´t know how to pronounce that difficult word, do you? Why don´t you watch a Youtube video in which is pronounced? That is precisely YouEnglish. You type a word in English and watch a video of somebody pronouncing it in context, Enjoy it!

PODOMATIC

On Podomatic you can create an account on this podcasting website and record yourself on your Smartphone or PC and then upload the sound file to the site for you and your classmates to hear.

TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION

Get some tips, a podcast, an ebook, and more on http://reallifebh.com/7-tips-to-drastically-improve-your-pronunciation-in-english

Basic words pronunciation

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Learn how to pronounce difficult words on http://www.manythings.org/audio/sentences/

Accents

Youtube videoclips explaining different accents by Gareth Jameson
scottish
british
geordie
irish
welsh
american
COCKNEY

Howjsay.com

 Listen to how to pronounce words on www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=temporary&submit=Submit is a website where you can listen to words. Just type the word you want to hear and listen to it passing your pointer over it.


Videos on Pronunciation. Specially difficult features of speech

BBC learning English has a website where you can practise all the phonetics downloading or just watching videos and downloading some examples. Let's start with the schwa:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_1.shtml

The list of links below are specially difficult features of speech, and  they are taken from http://eltgeek.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/more-grammar-with-films-and-songs-videos/
You can find some activities
You should watch them all and repeat them if you find understanding English difficult.


List of links:

am/is/are 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_611ulscCrw
am/is/are 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSB58F7_LZM
am/is/are 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0G1zfi2jP0
am/is/are 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcTwiZwe-RM
was/were http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NalGvK1c95M

present simple voscreen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEpQ_nLmJM
songs with present simple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scjALd4iIaE


imperatives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFFRLI6o3tw
present continuous in films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuVrVr4dvI
simple continuous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dUkFgFb448

past simple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1y_v2wev20
songs with past simple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKBys9Pd-6w

present perfect in films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NimnvJSwfs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt7O2w1Fpxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOkb2ZTuAQ

past perfect in desperate housewives http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84f2MLXcmx8
in desperate housewives (careful!!! sex) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIAiBTuqpg

why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnKyOqznDJ8 (ALL question types)

what http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ev9nuPWEW0

future simple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dUkFgFb448
will and going to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY8HarwqHFc

in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybdMPAlKoQk

0 and 1st conditional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-3B8h-DnWw

2nd conditional in films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd5cIbsefvE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvY_xFxais0
all conditionals in films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIN34vvRk24

can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7BMZrvTF6E
modals in films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5J5i1LSEE
modal verbs of obligation in films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOsFTuAysnk

songs with superlatives http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS6ZeYt-98Q
the passive in films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzeI93MszMk
the passive with modals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkLHh3CqW0

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