First, I congratulate you on realizing the importance of having excellent pronunciation. If you are determined to perfect your English pronunciation, I encourage you to read on and discover how we can help you.

Whether you like it or not, your pronunciation is often judged to determine your other abilities. A few years ago, I was not respected by my colleagues for my bad pronunciation. I, also, had to correct my poor pronunciation. Now I am proud to say that not only have I perfected my English pronunciation, I have received my MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, one of the top MBA programs, in the U.S., and have found new confidence in my ability to communicate. I hope that my experience in learning pronunciation can help you improve and perfect your English pronunciation.

After improving my own English pronunciation and experiencing how difficult it was to do, I determined to develop an effective English pronunciation software solution. Pronunciation Patterns is an American English pronunciation software which groups 4,000 commonly used English words by patterns and has hundreds of phonics rules to help you learn, correct, improve, and perfect your English pronunciation within one year.

Now, I would like to ask whether the following questions are true of you. They were true of me as I was struggling to improve my English pronunciation a few years ago.

Do you mispronounce English words when you speak English often because you just can't remember the correct pronunciation?
Pronunciation Patterns uses phonics to help you recall the correct pronunciation of English words. Phonics have been used by American children in learning to read words aloud and recognize their meanings. I found phonics extremely useful in remembering a word's correct pronunciation.

Here is one of the American phonics rules used by American children implemented in Pronunciation Patterns:

This image demonstrates the two vowels rule. The two vowels rule states that A is pronounced as the long A sound and I is not pronounced in the word brain. With this rule in mind, you will remember the pronunciation of the word brain as B R AI N rather than remembering it in the IPA format as b r eI n. Now you tell me whether you prefer remembering just the letter A over remembering Greek symbols like eI. If you prefer using IPA or APA to learn English pronunciation, the professional version 4.0 provides both IPA and APA phonetic transcripts to 4,000 words to help you learn pronunciation. Now you can download the demo for free to learn the long A sound and practice hundreds of words containing the long A sound.

Do you have trouble pronouncing some words and sounds when you speak English?
Pronunciation Patterns provides a mouth muscle exercise. In this exercise, you will learn the pronunciation of each word gradually. For example, you first learn the long A sound, then the combined sound of the consonant B and the long A sound, finally you will learn how to say the word bake.

You can practice a list of sounds such as ba!!, ca!!, cha!!, da!!, fa!!, etc repeatedly to help you build the mouth muscularity you will need in order to pronounce clearly. You can download the demo and try it yourself. Moreover, we have hundreds of words for each vowel and consonant to help you practice English pronunciation. Once you build mouth muscularity and feel comfortable in saying these sounds, you will not fall back to your previous pronunciation unconsciously. Consequently, your accent will gradually fade away.

Do you have trouble saying some particularly long words such as particularly?
With our sound diagram feature, you can break long words into two or three parts which will help you learn words such as particularly. Click here to learn more about the features of Pronunciation Patterns.

Do you find that you don't know how to pronounce certain sounds correctly?
The professional edition provides a set of video clips which will help you position your tongue for each vowel and consonant, ensuring you pronounce them correctly.

Do you have trouble distinguishing words such as well, while, wheel, and whale?
While other software programs use pairs to test your listening comprehension, the profession edition compiles all similar English words for you to practice with. For example, when you click on the word will, the system will list whale, wheel, ill, while, wall, well, and wool. Moreover, you can instruct Pronunciation Patterns to randomly pick a word from these words to test your listening comprehension.

Do you use International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) or American Phonetic Alphabet (APA) to learn English pronunciation?
Pronunciation Patterns provides both IPA and APA to help you learn English pronunciation.  Now, you can learn both IPA and APA at the same time and never get confused between them.

Do you often stress the wrong syllables, making your accent difficult to understand?
Pronunciation Patterns colors the schwa letter in blue to show that the schwa letter should not be stressed. Here is the word abandon. You see the letter A and O are colored in blue, meaning the stress is on the red letter A as a'bandon. Learning schwa sound is very important in learning English pronunciation.

Xin Wang MBA
of Carnegie Mellon University
CEO/Founder
xCers Corporation