Learn English: Pronunciation
John Doan · Education
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Version 2.5 — much more to hear, and fairer practice. NEW • 8 new sound contrasts with 40 new minimal pairs: Wine or Vine, Tree or Three, Day or They, Pin or Pen, Late or Let, Cup or Cop, Fork or Pork, and Hair or Air • 4 new pronunciation lessons: Silent Letters, -ED Endings, Word Stress and Spelling Traps • 2 new everyday lessons: Health and Shopping • 6 new grammar topics: Was / Were, Possessive 's, Quick / Quickly, Used to, the passive, and gerund or infinitive • Every grammar topic now has at least four fill-in-the-blank drills • Text now grows with your Larger Text setting FAIRER PRACTICE • Typed answers with the keyboard's curly apostrophe, like don’t, are now accepted • Typed answers also accept other correct forms, like "does not" for "doesn't" or "that" for "who" • When you type, a hint shows which word is wanted, like the base verb • After a wrong answer, the explanation stays on screen until you tap Next • Fixed drills where more than one choice was correct • The listening quiz no longer offers two words that sound the same, like Sun and Son • Pressing Return on an empty answer no longer counts as wrong CLEARER SOUND AND CONTENT • "Close" is now spoken as the verb, as in "close the door", to match its card • Replaced four minimal pairs that some voices did not say as a true pair • Corrected the hint, IPA, example sentence or picture on 31 word cards, and made 19 grammar rules clearer • Sound no longer cuts out when you tap words quickly, and words no longer play after you leave a quiz • VoiceOver now says whether your answer was right Thanks for learning with us. Keep listening.
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Sheep or ship? Think or sink? Best or vest? If those pairs sound the same to you, that is not a vocabulary problem — it is a listening problem, and it is the one thing most English apps never train. This one starts there. HEAR THE DIFFERENCE • 14 sound contrasts, 70 minimal pairs — the sounds that actually change meaning • Sheep/Ship, Light/Right, Think/Sink, Best/Vest, Cat/Cut, Pear/Bear, Sea/She, Chair/Share, Fan/Van, Pen/Pan, Thin/Thing, Price/Prize, Jet/Yet, Pool/Pull • Four dedicated pronunciation lessons: TH sounds, R and L, long and short vowels, and S / SH / CH • Hear a word, choose which one you heard. It is harder than it looks, and it is exactly the skill that makes fast speech understandable EVERY WORD SHOWS ITS SOUND • IPA phonetic notation on all 361 words • A plain sound-it-out hint, like AP-uhl for "apple" — for when IPA is not yet familiar • A real example sentence you can hear • Tap anything to hear it again, as many times as you like 26 VOCABULARY LESSONS, 361 WORDS Alphabet, Numbers, Colors, Animals, Food & Drink, Family, Body, Days & Months, Time & Weather, Common Phrases, Jobs, Clothes, House & Home, Action Verbs, Feelings, Places Around Town, Transportation, Fruits & Vegetables, School & Study, Nature, Sports & Hobbies, Opposites — plus the four pronunciation lessons. 30 GRAMMAR TOPICS A short rule, seven real examples, and fill-in-the-blank practice for each one. Articles through to second conditionals and relative clauses — 210 examples and 104 drills. Answer by tapping a choice or by typing it, whichever you find harder. PRACTICE THAT IS ACTUALLY PRACTICE • Listening quiz — hear a word, pick it from four • Grammar drills — tap or type, across every topic • Minimal pairs — the ear training, mixed or by contrast • Save any word to Favorites and come back to it HOW THE AUDIO WORKS, HONESTLY Every word and sentence is spoken by the built-in iOS speech voice, not by a recording. That is a deliberate trade: it is why the app is 100% offline with nothing to download, why you can slow the speech right down when a word is hard, and why you can switch between American, British, Australian and Indian English voices in Settings. FREE, AND ACTUALLY FREE • No ads, no accounts, no sign-up, no subscription, nothing locked • No tracking and no analytics of any kind • No permissions requested — not the microphone, not notifications, nothing • Works completely offline, on a plane or with no signal • iPhone and iPad Built for adult learners who want to understand real English, not collect points.
What's new · 2.5.0
Version 2.5 — much more to hear, and fairer practice. NEW • 8 new sound contrasts with 40 new minimal pairs: Wine or Vine, Tree or Three, Day or They, Pin or Pen, Late or Let, Cup or Cop, Fork or Pork, and Hair or Air • 4 new pronunciation lessons: Silent Letters, -ED Endings, Word Stress and Spelling Traps • 2 new everyday lessons: Health and Shopping • 6 new grammar topics: Was / Were, Possessive 's, Quick / Quickly, Used to, the passive, and gerund or infinitive • Every grammar topic now has at least four fill-in-the-blank drills • Text now grows with your Larger Text setting FAIRER PRACTICE • Typed answers with the keyboard's curly apostrophe, like don’t, are now accepted • Typed answers also accept other correct forms, like "does not" for "doesn't" or "that" for "who" • When you type, a hint shows which word is wanted, like the base verb • After a wrong answer, the explanation stays on screen until you tap Next • Fixed drills where more than one choice was correct • The listening quiz no longer offers two words that sound the same, like Sun and Son • Pressing Return on an empty answer no longer counts as wrong CLEARER SOUND AND CONTENT • "Close" is now spoken as the verb, as in "close the door", to match its card • Replaced four minimal pairs that some voices did not say as a true pair • Corrected the hint, IPA, example sentence or picture on 31 word cards, and made 19 grammar rules clearer • Sound no longer cuts out when you tap words quickly, and words no longer play after you leave a quiz • VoiceOver now says whether your answer was right Thanks for learning with us. Keep listening.
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