Learn English: Pronunciation

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.