LearnEnglish Sounds Right v2.1

British Council

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Developer Description

An interactive phonemic chart to help you improve your English pronunciation

LearnEnglish Sounds Right is the British Council’s FREE pronunciation chart for learners and teachers of English worldwide.

LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
Do you have difficulty with the sounds and pronunciation of the English language, or with understanding the symbols of the phonemic alphabet? With LearnEnglish Sounds Right on your phone or tablet you can practise anywhere and anytime. Just tap a sound and you will hear it. Tap the downward arrow sign and listen to three example words with that sound.

TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
Do you use phonemic script in class to help your students with their pronunciation? With LearnEnglish Sounds Right installed on your class set of devices, or your students’ own devices, you can teach the individual sounds and symbols easily.

* The pure vowels are arranged the same way as in the IPA chart: according to mouth shape (left to right, lips wide / round – top to bottom, jaw closed / open).

* The diphthongs are grouped in rows according to their second sound.

* The consonants are arranged from left (front of mouth) to right (back of mouth). The top two rows of consonants are paired (top row – unvoiced, second row – voiced). When you tap a plosive consonant, the schwa (ə) appears. This is because the plosives were recorded with a schwa for clarity.

We hope you enjoy using this chart!

Please contact us at learnenglish.mobile@britishcouncil.org if you have any comments or ideas for future versions.

Get more great English learning apps from the British Council at:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/apps

What's New

v2.1:
- We've added full support for the latest version of Android!
- We've re-recorded the phoneme sounds for much better audio quality!
- We've fixed an error in one of the phonemic symbols (thanks for your feedback!)
- We've made some other minor backend improvements to make the app work better

We hope you enjoy using the app. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please email us at learnenglish.mobile@britishcouncil.org with your ideas. Happy studying!

Version Information

Version: 2.1
Downloads: 1M+
Updated on: Mar 19, 2024
Released: Jul 23, 2017
Requires: Android 6.0

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★★★★★

Heritage Ayomiposi

This app is wonderful. I personally see no flaws in the app. If you're looking for an app that will help you in learning the vowels and consonant sounds, I think you've found the right one. I give you assurance on that. Thank you so much British Council 🤍⁦❤️⁩🤍

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Rachel - English at King's Church

I love to use this app with my students. However, recently it is coming up with an error message on some phones saying that the app is designed for an older phone and so some students can't download it. If this could be fixed, I would be happy to change to 5 stars.

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Touseef Fatima

It's quite helpful for self learning.If manner and place of articulation are visible or live then it would be perfect for non native speakers.

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Emily-Claire Donaghue

I am frankly quite shocked that they are at least missing the "oo" sound as in food or moon... I'm not sure if they're missing any other vital sound but if they're missing that one then I wouldn't be surprised... 😅 Other than that it's nicely put together...

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