Can Pronunciation
Patterns help English speakers who need to reduce their strong
regional accents such as southern and New York accent?
I have trouble pronouncing the "TH" sound.
Can Pronunciation Patterns help me?
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.
How many English sounds does Pronunciation
Patterns teach?
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.
Does Pronunciation Patterns teach rules on
phonics?
Pronunciation Patterns has twenty six alphabet rules, sixteen
silent letter rules, fourteen double consonant rules, eighteen
two vowel rules, and five ending rules.
I find it difficult to pronounce English
words, can Pronunciation Patterns help me?
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. I tried to connect how and house together
so that I just need to say how+s to say house.
Very
often, we don't have any trouble saying one sound alone but we
have trouble saying two sounds together. Our mouth muscle
exercise is designed with this in mind. It groups words such
how, howl, house, etc together to help you get enough practice
and help you use the words you have no trouble saying to learn
the words you have trouble.
I have trouble pronouncing the "R" sound.
Can Pronunciation Patterns help me?
For the "R" sound, you have to practice to curve your tongue
back to pronounce the sound. Pronunciation Patterns has hundreds
of words containing the "R" sound to help you practice the words
with the "R" sound.
When is the letter T pronounced as the D
sound?
We have accent reduction and English pronunciation tips for
questions like this one in our Pronunciation Patterns forum.
Does Pronunciation Patterns use
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to teach sounds?
Yes. We provide both International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and
American Phonetic Alphabet (APA) to teach sounds. You just need
to uncheck the Apply APA option in the Setting section to have
the program to display IPA symbols in the program. Because we
provide IPA and APA, we encourage you to learn APA because they
are widely used by American dictionary and the phonics rules is
based on APA.
