Pronunciation Patterns -- A Complete English Pronunciation Software Solution

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Learn American Pronunciation Based on Phonics

1. Learn all 26 letters of the alphabet and the many sounds each letter has.

1. Every English learner has to learn that English words cannot always be read as written.

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.

2. Learn International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) or American Phonetic Alphabet (APA) for 44 sounds.

2. English learners should be familiar with either the IPA or APA to learn the visual representation of English pronunciation.

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.

3. Learn how to pronounce each English sound correctly.

3. English learners must learn how to pronounce each English sound correctly.

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.

4. Learn phonics and patterns to help remember the correct American pronunciation.

4. English learners need to remember the correct pronunciation of each English word, especially for visual learners.

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.

Do you often have trouble remembering the correct pronunciation of long difficult English words and saying them?

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. Use our daily lessons to help you learn American pronunciation step-by-step.

5. Pronunciation Patterns has step-by-step interactive instructions to help you through the program. To access the lessons, simply click the Daily Lesson button in the middle panel.

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Help You Identify Your Pronunciation Errors

1. Try to identify your pronunciation errors by yourself first.

It is very important for every English learners to be aware of their own pronunciation errors. It will allow you to make conscious decisions to help you correct your pronunciation mistakes whenever it happens.

1. Select a word you have trouble with.

2. press F2 and F3 to record your own voice and F4 to play your recording back.

3. Compare your recording against the pre-recorded.

4. If you know that you made mistakes or are not sure, add the word into your learning list.

5. Use the Mistake Editor to mark your pronunciation errors to help you remember what to correct.

2. Find a native English speaker or ESL Teacher to help you verify your pronunciation errors.

You can record your teacher's comment as well as your own. Simply choose Teacher instead of Student at the bottom of the Mistake Editor window.

Because in default, Pronunciation Patterns records your voice as the selected word. Therefore, when you reselect the word and press the F4 key, it will play back your recording for that particular word. It is very helpful feature when you just want to record your voice and let your teacher help you identify your pronunciation errors later on.

3. If you are a Windows Vista user, use the latest Speech Recognition program to check your pronunciation.

Pronunciation Patterns works with Windows Vista Speech Recognition Program 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.

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Practice Pronunciation to Help you Perfect Your Pronunciation

1. Practice word pronunciation by using patterns or rules.

The best way to practice pronunciation is to practice a group of similar words together because it will help you pronounce out the new words. For example, if you know how to say the word lake or make, it will be easy for you to say the words, rake, sake, wake, etc because they share the same ending sound ake.

1. Right click the list box to practice the words by patterns or choose the patterns in our online tutorial.

2. Set how many times you want to play the sound and words.

3. Press F5/F6 to let the program to play the words automatically for you.

2. Create your own word list to practice with.

If you feel comfortable with the pronunciation of some words but not others, Pronunciation Patterns allows you to add any words from our 4,000 word list or download word audio file from the web to your own word list to help you practice pronunciation.

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

3. Let Pronunciation Patterns play the words or the sounds automatically to help you practice.

You can right click the list box to practice the words by patterns. Moreover, you can press F5/F6 to play the words automatically for you.With this auto-play option, you can practice English pronunciation while doing other tasks.

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

4. Practice your pronunciation with mp3 players anywhere.

The Pronunciation Patterns Network can export the word list into mp3 format and you can load them to your mp3 player to help you practice your pronunciation subconsciously from anywhere.

It is very important to have your subconscious mind accept the correct pronunciation. Therefore, first, you will need correct your pronunciation to correct your pronunciation. Then you will need to practice your pronunciation subconsciously.

5. Using our special Mouth Exercise to help you build strong mouth muscle.

Very often, we can't pronounce certain sounds because we have not exercise some parts of our mouth muscle.

Pronunciation Patterns adds this unique mouth exercise to help you exercise your mouth muscle. Simply choose Mouth Exercise at the login window, the program will load the exercise to help you build a strong mouth muscle you will need.
Here is one example: Try to say the following sounds: BA!!, CA!!, DA!!, FA!!, GA!! HA!!, etc.

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Help You Improve Your Listening

1. Learning the correct pronunciation of each sound can help you improve your listening.

1. If you don't know the correct pronunciation, you usually don't hear them.

For example, if you don't have the th sound in your native language, you can't hear them in English. That is why learning correct pronunciation is very important to your listening.

Pronunciation Patterns offers online videos to show you how to pronounce each sound exactly to help you learn the right way to pronounce each sound. We even tell you whether you have a trouble with each sound according to your language background.

2. Pronunciation Patterns lists all the similar words to help you test your listening.

2. Unlike other solutions which provide only two similar words for you to compare or to test your listening skills, Pronunciation Patterns lists all similar words such as will, whale, wheel, while, wall, well, and wool, in the system for you. 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 them to test your listening.
In additional, you can let the program play those words to you automatically. The more you listen, the better you will hear the differences.

3. With Pronunciation Patterns, you can break long words into phonemes to help you improve your listening.

3. Sometimes we don't hear every sound in a word. Don't worry. With Pronunciation Patterns, you can break them into different parts and listen each one individually.

In this example, the word Miscellaneous is a relatively long word for us. We break the word according to the syllables and you can play it as miscel-la-neous.

4. With Pronunciation Patterns, you can play online podcast at slower speed to help you improve your listening.

4. With Pronunciation Patterns, you can play online mp3 files in different speeds to help you improve your listening comprehension.

In this example, you just need to go to the Studying English Online page and start listening the podcast from VOA.com.

5. Learning how many different ways a sentence can be said will help you improve your listening.

5. American often stress different words in a sentence to convey their different feeling. That is why American English is very difficult to be understood.

Pronunciation Patterns shows you the patterns Americans use when you speak. For example, a simple sentence such as "How are you?" can be said as "How are you?" and "How're you?"

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Learn How to Speak Like Americans

1. Learn how you to speak fluent American English by linking words together.

1. If you want to speak like Americans, you will have to learn how to link the pronunciation of two words into one pronunciation.

For example, when Americans say "What is the big deal?", they don't just speak the five words one by one but link them as "whatis the big deal?", "what's the big deal?"

By understanding how they link words together, you will also improve your listening. Our latest accent reduction solution will offer thousands sentences to help you practice linking and see how they are applied.
(This feature is still working in progress and available to online members ony.)

2. Pronunciation Patterns ways to improve your intonation.

2. Americans often stress words in sentences to help them emphasize their true meanings.

For example, "Whatis the big deal?" and "what is the big deal?" have two different meanings.

Pronunciation Patterns records sentences with differnt intonation to help you speak like Americans.

3. Pronunciation Patterns ways to learn idioms to help you speak like Americans.

3. Americans use idioms in their daily conversations all the time. That is why it is very important for you to learn idioms if you want to speak as Americans as apple pie.

With Pronunciation Patterns, it is very easy for you to learn idioms while you learn a new word or you master the pronunciation of a old word. Simply go to the Online Resources page and click the Idiom button and you will be on the way to learn all the idioms.

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Teach Phonics to Children

1. Pronunciation Patterns lists all the major and minor patterns in colors for each sound.

1. Unlike other phonics software, only Pronunciation Patterns shows all the possible phonics rules and patterns for each sound.

For example, you see the there are four major phonics rules and eleven minor patterns for the long A sound. More over, it also offers exceptions for each sound.

Also, when you click on the rules or patterns, Pronunciation Patterns lists all the words following the rule or the pattern to help you learn and practice them.

2. Pronunciation Patterns has the rules section to help you learn phonics rules in a short time.

2. Unlike other phonics solutions, Pronunciation Patterns wants to help you learn all the rules and patterns in the shortest period possible.

Under each rule, we have many words to help you truly remember the phonics rules.

3. Pronunciation Patterns links to online animations to make learning phonics fun.

3. We understand that many of our customers are using Pronunciation Patterns to help their children learn phonics. Therefore, we link Pronunciation Patterns to online animations to make learning phonics fund.

We also believe that the animations can help you adults to understand the rules and patterns.

4. Pronunciation Patterns links to online photo sites to help children learn vocabulary.

4. The best way for children to learn a new word is to show them photos.

In this example, you just need to the Online Resources page and click the Photo buttons and Pronunciation Patterns shows photos for each word you click.

5. Pronunciation Patterns allows you to display words according to their length.

5. If you find the 4,000 words in the program are too hard for your children to learn. Don't worry, you can just to go to the Settings to set what words to be shown in the program according to their lentgh.

In this example, we set the Word Max to 6 and Word Min to 0. The program only show the words whose length is less or equal to 6.

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Help Beginners Learn Vocabulary

1. Learn the 4,000 commonly used words by using patterns in Pronunciation Patterns.

1. If you are beginner, it is very important for you to learn the 4,000 commonly used words to help you build a strong vocabulary foundation with correct pronunciation. If you don't learn correct pronunciation, it will be harder to correct your pronunciation once you form bad pronunciation.

Unlike other English software, Pronunciation Patterns groups the 4,000 commonly used words by patterns and rules to help you remember spellings and correct pronunciation.

For example, you can learn words like able, cable, disable, fable, stable and table all together. Our online tutorial help you see and learn patterns and phonics rules.

2. Pronunciation Patterns links to online dictionary in multiple languages to help you learn vocabulary.

2. Now, you are just one click away to translate the 4,000 commonly used words into your own language.

You just need to go to the Online Resources page and click your language flag. In this example, the program tranlates the word stagger in Chinese.
If you don't see your language in the program, please email us.

3. Pronunciation Patterns help you remember new vocabulary with the least effort if you use everyday.

3. Once you add new words into the learning list, Pronunciation Patterns knows when you need to review the words to help you remember them with the least effort. However, you will have to use the program everyday to take advantage of this feature.

4. Practice your pronunciation with mp3 players anywhere.

The Pronunciation Patterns Network can export the word list into mp3 format and you can load them to your mp3 player to help you practice your pronunciation subconsciously from anywhere.

It is very important to have your subconscious mind accept the correct pronunciation. Therefore, first, you will need correct your pronunciation to correct your pronunciation. Then you will need to practice your pronunciation subconsciously.

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Help Intermediate and Advanced Learners Increase Vocabulary

1. Learn the contextual meanings of new vocabulary through reading, reading and reading.

1. If you are an advanced English learner and have mastered 4,000 words in Pronunciation Patterns, you will need expand your vocabulary by reading. Because each English word has multiple meanings, it is extremely important to learn the contextual meanings of the word.

The best way to learn the contextual meanings of a word is by reading a lot. When you see a new word, please guess the meaning of the word in your native language first, then you can double click the word to add the new word to your learning list and look up the definition online.

2. Pronunciation Patterns links to online dictionary in multiple languages to help you learn vocabulary.

2. Now, you are just one click away to translate the words in the word list into your own language.

You just need to go to the Online Resources page and click your language flag. In this example, the program translates the word stagger in Chinese.
If you don't see your language in the program, please email us.

3. Pronunciation Patterns help you remember new vocabulary with the least effort if you use everyday.

3. Once you add new words into the learning list, Pronunciation Patterns knows when you need to review the words to help you remember them with the least effort. However, you will have to use the program everyday to take advantage of this feature.

4. Practice your pronunciation with mp3 players anywhere.

The Pronunciation Patterns Network can export the word list into mp3 format and you can load them to your mp3 player to help you practice your pronunciation subconsciously from anywhere.

It is very important to have your subconscious mind accept the correct pronunciation. Therefore, first, you will need correct your pronunciation to correct your pronunciation. Then you will need to practice your pronunciation subconsciously.

Pronunciation Patterns Ways to Help Test Takers to Prepare Vocabulary

1. Pronunciation Patterns can help you prepare tests like GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, and others.

1. Go to the Starting English Online and click in the Online GRE Vocabulary, you can double click the words to download the audio files of those words into your learning list to help you prepare GRE. Please click here to learn how Pronunciation Patterns to help you learn those words with the least effort.

You can simply enter your favor test preparation sites and add those words to your word list. Because of the addition of the Speaking Section in the latest TOEFL test, it is very important for you to master the pronunciation of the 4,000 commonly used words and the TOEFL vocabulary.

You always can just enter new words in the Word box to add them to your learning list. You also can go to other word list page provided by a third party.

2. Pronunciation Patterns links to online dictionary in multiple languages to help you learn vocabulary.

2. Now, you are just one click away to translate the 4,000 commonly used words into your own language.

You just need to go to the Online Resources page and click your language flag. In this example, the program tranlates the word stagger in Chinese.
If you don't see your language in the program, please email us.

3. Pronunciation Patterns help you remember new vocabulary with the least effort if you use everyday.

3. Once you add new words into the learning list, Pronunciation Patterns knows when you need to review the words to help you remember them with the least effort. However, you will have to use the program everyday to take advantage of this feature.

4. Practice your pronunciation with mp3 players anywhere.

The Pronunciation Patterns Network can export the word list into mp3 format and you can load them to your mp3 player to help you practice your pronunciation subconsciously from anywhere.

It is very important to have your subconscious mind accept the correct pronunciation. Therefore, first, you will need correct your pronunciation to correct your pronunciation. Then you will need to practice your pronunciation subconsciously.

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