Pronunciation Power
Recommended for learners (beginner to advanced)
Pronunciation Power is a comprehensive program on CD-rom that teaches the 52 sounds of English to ESL learners, with an American English accent. The program comes on two CDs, which may be purchased separately or together:
Pronunciation Power 1 (beginner to intermediate)
Pronunciation Power 2 (intermediate to advanced)
Pronunciation Power 1 uses the latest in pronunciation learning technology for beginner to intermediate students. It includes:
- Over 7000 practice words and thousands of sentences
- Over 100 hours of training
- Over 2000 photos and graphics
- Animated lessons
- 1020 listening exercises
- Hours of exercises for practising Stress, Timing, Articulation, Intonation and Rhythm (S.T.A.I.R.)
- Four exciting new interactive games
Pronunciation Power 1 has many technologically advanced features that let learners see moving pictures of the instructor's mouth, listen to the sounds made by the instructor and record their own voice to compare with the instructor's.
- Teaches the 52 sounds needed to speak clear English
- 16 different interactive modules reinforce learning progress
- Includes a 12-language English pronunciation dictionary
- Each teaching module provides over 100 hours of training
Pronunciation Power 2 is an interactive, user friendly yet sophisticated teaching tool. Designed for intermediate to advanced English students of all ages, the program contains hundreds of hours of professional instruction.
- Teaches the 52 sounds necessary to successfully speak perfect English.
- Compares student's voice with instructor's, using advanced waveform comparison technology.
- A moving animated side view of the mouth and tongue plus a front view video of the instructor's mouth show exactly how to form proper English sounds.
- Advances student's listening ability with 650 different sentence exercises.
- Lets students practise pronunciation through interactive exercises, including:
- 780 selected English words chosen to demonstrate the 52 sounds
- 1,040 comparative English words to identify sound differences
- 520 different sentences to fully practise acquired English skills
Pronunciation Power 2 includes the following technologically advanced features:
Main Menu: Sounds
- Choose one of the 52 sounds by clicking it with your mouse.
- Hear each of the 52 sounds pronounced clearly by the instructor.
- Navigate through lessons, speech analysis and exercises.
Speech Analysis
- Listen to the instructor pronounce the sound; then see the instructor's waveform.
- Record your own pronunciation and waveform of the sound.
- Compare your waveform to the instructor's waveform.
Vocal Mechanics
- Learn how the sound is made through detailed pictures of the human mouth.
- Side view: observe the movement of an animated face - see the tongue guide the sound.
- Front view: observe the movement of the instructor's mouth - see the lips form the sound.
Practice Exercises
- Choose from one of four exercise lesson sets to help you practise the 52 sounds.
- As you master the lessons you are mastering spoken English!
Sample and Comparative Words
- Study 15 example words plus 20 comparative words per sound.
- Listen to the instructor pronounce the sample and comparative words.
- Record your own voice and compare your pronunciation to the instructor's.
Listening Discrimination
- Up to 15 listening-discrimination exercises for each sound. Listen to the instructor reading a sentence.
- Choose the word that the instructor uses in each sentence.
- The program tells you if you identified the right word.
Sentence Exercises
- 10 sentences per sound.
- Listen to the instructor read the sentence.
- Record your voice while you say the sentence.
- Compare your voice to the voice of your instructor - your English speaking partner.
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