Phonetic symbols and English sounds

Some of the students aren't familiar with phonetic symbols. There are different charts and you have one example at the end of your textbook but this is another example: click here. If you prefer using the material provided by CUP, do go to this link. This other link has a lot of material.

If  you want to read an article about the difference between English adn Spanish you may go to this link and have a look: click here.

There are a lot of videos to help you and these are some examples:

• for consonants: this one   
• for vowels they can be short or long so these videos can help you; this one is very easy and this deals with pronunciation and it gives you many examples: click here. But also you have this one for short vowels and this one for long vowels.
• To work with the most difficult vowel sound /ǝ/ you may use this video or this one.

For thosse who are in higher levels you know there are some other problems to sound natural such as how to connect or link words (here you are a video or this pedagogical one), this video is with some hints about how to do it, or this one to speak more fluently, or this one which compares Spanish and English.

For higher levels, have a look on this video which works with the difference between long /i:/ and short /I/: click here