American English: Chinese

Regardless which version of American English Pronunciation you download, the most they offer is some listen and repeat of random words and phrases and some traditional listening discrimination drills with items in random order. With no explicit focus on the sound being contrast for the target sound and no attention to the sound’s environment (the place in the word or the following sound), these apps are not as pedagogically effective as they could be. The graphic user interface is quite easy to use and fairly well designed, but the pedagogical content does not make these effective for a basic introduction to these sounds. For the full review see the blog “Today’s English in the World.” DJ Kaiser, PhD

Awesome idea and very helpful. Highly recommend!

I'm an accent reduction coach. When I get a new Chinese client, the first thing I do is have him/her purchase this App to work on sound discrimination skills. This saves the client time and money. Instead of having the teacher read them minimal pairs to test them, students can test themselves at home with this App. They can repeat questions they got wrong until they develop a fine-tuned ear for American English sounds. Then we can spend more time during our lessons on how to produce the sounds. Some of my students listen to this while taking a walk in the evening or sitting on a communter train. I ask them to practice for at least a couple minutes here and there, whenever they can fit it in. The more often, the better. They're learning to carefully listen for sounds that they never heard or paid attention to as a child.

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Thank you for this great app!!

great app to practice the pronunciation at home

Great work! Real voices help me a lot!

Thank you for sounds that I probably never say right. I think some of my English teachers never say these sounds right, so now I hear how word must be. It is simple and convenient app. It will not waste your time. It gets to the point and now I find out that I can't hear some sounds. So I will practice those ones. I like listen and repeat and same or different. If you update, please have more second to show words on screen. Maybe I don't read fast. And can you include "dwarf." Ii don't say right- maybe I say "dorf"