• Practice of SSBE sounds

English interactive phonemic charts                                                                                  Cambridge English Online                           One Stop English

Practice with minimal pairs and the sounds of English                                                                         Ship or sheep                                Manythings.org                            Antimoon

The AngloTIC webpage (Universitat de València)

Ear-training practice with vowels                             Ear-training practice with consonants

There are other ear-training exercises here.

Exercises with vowels, consonants, odd-one-out exercises, morpheme -s, morpheme -ed, etc.)

English accent coach (based on GA)                      Say it Right (SSBE and GA)

Gimson’s pronunciation of English (by Alan Cruttenden)                                           eighth edition additional material on pronunciation practice.

Pronunciation Games at EnglishClub.com                                                              Rhyming pairs, pronunciation of  -ed endings and homophones.

• English pronunciation for Catalan and Spanish speakers

EPSS (English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish) Multimedia Lab: exercises and online resources.

English Pronunciation (by Rodrigo Brunori)    English pronunciation for Catalan speakers                                                                                        (by Lou Hevly)

Online course on English pronunciation for Spanish and Catalan speakers                          (By Núria Gavaldà)

• Resources to practice transcription

• Transcription system in English and current sound changes

John Wells on IPA transcription systems for English (current system, current sound changes and some comments on proposals for reforms)

Geoff Lindsey’s Cube (Current British English) pronunciation dictionary. Make sure you tick the option “trad” (for traditional symbols) so that you can see the transcription with the symbols that we use in class. With this dictionary, you can also look for words with specific sounds you are interested in or for minimal pairs. You can watch an explanatory video here. Also, visit the section called accent” on sound changes that mark the difference between traditional RP and SSBE and his proposal for a different transcription system

• Spelling-pronunciation relationship

John Maidment’s site offers pronunciation                       Silent letters                                   tips, tips on the relationship between spelling                    (by Pronunciation Studio)            and pronunciation, and information about the                                                              pronunciation of place names, among others.

• Resources to practice intonation

The following are resources by John Maidment to practice intonation.

Introduction to tonality, to focus and to tone (pitch).

On Wh-Questions

PLATO (Place the Tonic):                                              Online Intonation: practice associating practise Tonicity (position of the                                 an intonation pattern with a commonly the sound of nuclear stress).                                         used system of notation in English.

Newton: designed to help you recognise                Peter Ladefoged’s examples on           General British English nuclear tones.                  intonation. You can listen to some                                                                                                      sentences produced with different                                                                                                        intonational patterns.

• Blogs and tutorials on English phonetics and pronunciation

IPA phonetics resources and tutorials        BBC Learning English Pronunciation

Peter Ladefoged’s online course.         John Wells’s blog          Jack Windsor Lewis’s blog

Jennifer Smith’s phonetic resources      Geoff Lindsey’s blog          Mark Hukvale’s courses

• Youtube channels on English pronunciation and phonetics