Pronunciation Patterns shows you how many sounds each English letter can have so that you can remember the correct pronunciation with ease.

Pronunciation Patterns has step-by-step instructions to help you through the program.

Pronunciation Patterns provides both the standard International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the American Phonetic Alphabet (APA).

Pronunciation Patterns arranges the 20 vowels in long sounds, short sounds and vowel+R sounds to help you learn and remember vowel sounds.

We encourage you to use the APA because it will help you understand the phonics rules in the program more easily.

Pronunciation Patterns has mouth video clips to help you learn how to pronounce each English sound.

Moreover, Pronunciation Patterns lists common problems and errors for speakers of different language backgrounds which include Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, and everyone else.

Pronunciation Patterns uses phonics and patterns, used by millions of American children, to teach American English pronunciation and spellings. You will find that phonics is the only systematic way to help you remember the pronunciation of English words and you can learn all the phonics rules within a short time period with Pronunciation Patterns.

Pronunciation Patterns has the complete set of phonics rules. For each phonics rule, more than 100 example words help you learn the rule and see the pattern.

Pronunciation Patterns groups 4,000 words by patterns as able, cable, stable, fable, etc, to help you learn English words and practice English pronunciation.

We hope you enjoy how we color the letters to stimulate your brain. Of course, you can set the colors you prefer.

Pronunciation Patterns colors every word to help you remember the correct pronunciation. Also, it allows you to break a word into syllables for easy practice.

For example:
Like me, you may have trouble saying the word "statistics." With Pronunciation Patterns, you will remember that the letter a is pronounced as the schwa sound because it is colored in blue. The rule states that the schwa sound is an unstressed sound. Because of this, the stress is on the second T, not the first T.

With our sound diagram, you can easily break the word "statistics" into three parts as in the picture. You will practice the word as stə-'tis-diks.

5. Now you need to practice, practice, and practice to perfect your English pronunciation.

Only practice can help you remember the correct pronunciation subconsciously. It is important because we always speak our native tongue subconsciously. While you practice with the list, Pronunciation Patterns allows you to create your own difficult word list. Moreover, you can export your list in mp3 format and upload to your mp3 player to help you practice whenever and wherever.

Pronunciation Patterns not only has hundreds of sample words for each sound for you to practice, but also groups words by patterns to help you learn the correct pronunciation of the word.

Moreover, Pronunciation Patterns has a unique mouth muscle exercise to help build strong mouth muscularity and enable you to say words clearly.

Please practice English pronunciation with Pronunciation Patterns at least 15-20 minutes a day for at least 30 days to see the your improvements.

I also strongly recommend you read What It Takes to Improve English Pronunciation.

Also, you can set how many times you want to play the sound and word before moving on to the next sound and word.  

6. Pronunciation Patterns works with Windows Vista Speech Recognition to help you improve your pronunciation. You can speak any words in the list, the program will play the word you speak for you. If your pronunciation is not recognized, the program will highlight all the possible words for you and you can try it again.

Click here to learn more about how to use Vista Speech Recognition with Pronunciation Patterns.

The Network edition has many additional voice commands to work with Windows Speech Recognition.

7. Practice in saying the word is important; training in hearing the word is also important.

Unlike other solutions which provide only two similar words for comparison, Pronunciation Patterns lists all similar words such as will, whale, wheel, while, wall, well, and wool, in the system for you to compare. By doing so, you will truly see the subtle differences among many sounds.  

Pronunciation Patterns not only lists all similar words, but also randomly picks a word from among them to test your English listening comprehension.

8. English learners not only need to be able say short words, but also pronounce long words without difficulty.

With Pronunciation Patterns, you can break a word into 2 or 3 parts to help you master the pronunciation of long English words.

9. 4,000 words are sufficient for daily conversation, but advanced English learners like to go beyond 4,000 words.

Now, you can use Pronunciation Patterns to listen to news from VOA, Voice of America, and read it out loud by following the audio. It will help you improve your fluency and reading skills. (The version 4.0 allows you to total control the mp3 file. You can set when to repeat the audio file to help you practice one particular sentence.)

Moreover, you can add the audio file of any new words to your learning list by double clicking the word.

With this option, you will not just surf the web but will learn English while surfing.

Pronunciation Patterns will show the added words on the right hand side periodically according to the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve (EFC) to help you remember the new words.

Please remember that you have to use Pronunciation Patterns everyday to take advantage of the EFC.

You can learn more about the EFC by clicking here.

10. Once you master the pronunciation of every word, you need to speaking your own sentences with fluency.

Pronunciation Patterns has its own forum for you to share your personal experience with others. Also, there are many great English pronunciation and accent reduction tips to help you speak more fluently and clearly.

Pronunciation Patterns links to the best Text-to-Speech demo (available as it is). Type in your own sentences or copy and paste any sentence to have the latest and best text-to-speech demo speak the sentence for you.

11. In Pronunciation Patterns Network Edition, you can read the news and dictate your own in its dictator by using Windows Vista Speech Recognition. With this feature, you can improve your speaking while reading online.

12. Don't have time to practice all the words?

Pronunciation Patterns allows you to customize the software to your needs. Simply select the words you have trouble with and check the "Learn Words Above Only" option. Pronunciation Patterns will list only these words in the right list box.

Pronunciation Patterns has Mistake Editor to help you comment on your pronunciation mistakes. Teachers can help their students identify their specific pronunciation problems.

You can export the learning list to a text file and take the list with you so that you can practice English pronunciation whenever and wherever.