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Pronunciation of Spanish sounds with multiple audio examples.

Convert Chinese characters to pinyin and listen to the pronunciation

Video tutorials on Japanese pronunciation, including intonation. Quizzes are not accessible without a UBC account.

Watch videos in English with captions. Click any word to get pronunciation and a definition. There is another mode to use the videos as cloze exercises with immediate feedback. Includes social features for competing against other users.

English literacy lessons. Interactive animations teach kids about spelling, pronunciation, and reading. Includes exercises.

Dictionary that offers definitions, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, pronunciations, and translations between English and several languages (German, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish). Many other options.

Listen to the pronunciation of all possible syllables in Mandarin Chinese.

A video pronunciation dictionary with usage examples

World's largest pronunciation dictionary. All the words pronounced by native speakers.

Tutorial on the Russian alphabet, including pronunciation.

English dictionary for kids with optional Spanish support. Includes audio pronunciations, part of speech, and inflections. Related: http://kids.wordsmyth.net/wild/ is a highly visual dictionary, where students can click through scenes and images to find the written and spoken forms of nouns.

Learn Arabic has short, free lessons on basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary. While the transliteration system from Arabic words to English pronunciation is not the best, each vocab list features recorded audio of the word.

Course by Lovisa Berg, Dalarna University visit www.du.se/arabic for more information. Watch more on youtube.com/dalarnauniversity or download for free on itunes.du.se On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:· recognize, write and correctly pronounce the Arabic alphabet as well as understand the diacritic marks (al-harakaat) that affect the pronunciation of certain vowels and consonants · acquire a basic vocabulary · understand and ask simple questions · communicate in Arabic about simple familiar subjects · use greetings· introduce themselves: family and background, interests · read short texts and write simple texts about familiar topics · recognize simple grammatical constructions and use them.

Learn basic pronunciation of Italian alphabet, including vowels, consonants and diphthongs.

Learn facts and history about the Italian language, study tips to maximize your learning experience, greetings and introductions, verbs, and pronunciation. Take quizzes and view lessons to test your knowledge and listen to audio to improve your pronunciation. Also includes one woman's twelve-part journey to fluency.

Online Speech Recognition in many languages. Text can be exported. I tried this with English and Japanese, and it quite accurately transcribed my speech, except proper names. Teachers could use this to help students improve pronunciation.

Text to speech with a simple avatar. Can also be used to translate from English into another language, then into speech.

English video lessons

Marcelo Andrade's English Phonetics wiki. Includes resources for learning and teaching English phonetics.