🌐 Language Learning Tools
Expand beyond English. Practice pronunciation in seven languages with interactive recording, instant feedback, and fluency scoring.
🗣️ Language Pronunciation Practice
🇺🇸 English (US)
General American pronunciation with phonetic feedback.
🇬🇧 English (UK)
Received Pronunciation and British accent patterns.
🇪🇸 Spanish
Castilian and Latin American pronunciation practice.
🇫🇷 French
Nasal vowels, liaisons, and rhythmic groups.
🇩🇪 German
Umlauts, ich-laut, and compound stress patterns.
🇧🇷 Portuguese
Brazilian vowel reduction and nasalization.
🇨🇳 Chinese
Mandarin tones, pinyin, and syllable structure.
🇮🇳 Hindi
Retroflex contrasts and aspirated stops.
📅 Days of the Week Practice
🇪🇸 Spanish Days
Lunes through Domingo with audio.
🇫🇷 French Days
Lundi through Dimanche with audio.
🇩🇪 German Days
Montag through Sonntag with audio.
🇧🇷 Portuguese Days
Segunda through Domingo with audio.
🇨🇳 Chinese Days
星期一 through 星期日 with pinyin.
🇬🇧 English Days
Monday through Sunday with audio.
🇮🇳 Hindi Days
सोमवार through रविवार with audio.
🧩 Interactive Tools for Other Languages
Foreign Language Number Pronouncer
Type any number to see and hear it in six languages, then test your ear with a number listening quiz.
Mandarin Tone Trainer
Hear Mandarin syllables and two-syllable words, identify the tones, and track which tone pairs you confuse.
Pinyin Tone Mark Converter
Turn ni3 hao3 into nǐ hǎo and back, with correct tone mark placement and tone sandhi hints.
Spanish Accent Mark Checker
Split any Spanish word into syllables, choose the stress, and find out whether it needs a written accent and why.
Multilingual Dictation Trainer
Listen to sentences in six languages, type what you hear, and see a word-by-word comparison with the original.
Hindi Devanagari Sound Chart
Tap any Devanagari letter to hear it, with IPA, romanisation and an example word, arranged by place and manner of articulation.
📖 In-Depth Pronunciation Guides
Every guide explains one part of a sound system with IPA, tap-to-hear examples and a short listening or speaking drill you can do on the page.
Spanish Pronunciation
- Spanish Pronunciation for English Speakers: The Complete Sound Guide
- Spanish Vowels: How to Pronounce the Five Pure Vowels
- Spanish R and RR: How to Pronounce the Tap and the Trill
- Soft B, D and G in Spanish: The Consonants Textbooks Skip
- Spanish Stress and Accent Mark Rules: Agudas, Llanas and Esdrújulas
- Spanish Diphthongs and Hiatus: When Two Vowels Make One Syllable
- Spain vs Latin American Spanish Pronunciation: The Real Differences
- Spanish Linking and Sinalefa: Why Native Speakers Sound So Fast
French Pronunciation
- French Pronunciation for English Speakers: A Complete Sound Guide
- French Nasal Vowels: How to Say AN, ON, IN and UN
- French U vs OU: How to Pronounce Tu, Tout and the Rounded Front Vowels
- How to Pronounce the French R: A Step-by-Step Method
- French Liaison Rules: Obligatory, Optional and Forbidden
- French Silent Letters: Which Final Consonants to Pronounce
- The French Mute E: When to Drop It and When to Keep It
- French Rhythm and Intonation: Why French Has No Word Stress
- French Numbers: How to Say and Pronounce 70, 80, 90 and Beyond
German Pronunciation
- German Pronunciation for English Speakers: The Complete Sound Guide
- German Umlauts: How to Pronounce Ä, Ö and Ü
- The German CH Sound: Ich-Laut and Ach-Laut Explained
- German Vowel Length: How to Tell Long and Short Vowels Apart
- German Final Devoicing: Why Hund Sounds Like "Hunt"
- The German R: Uvular R and Vocalic R Explained
- German Letters That Trip Up English Speakers: W, V, Z, S, SP, ST, EI and IE
- German Word Stress: Compounds, Prefixes and Loanwords
Portuguese Pronunciation
- Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation: A Complete Guide for English Speakers
- Portuguese Nasal Vowels: How to Say ÃO, ÃE, EM and IM
- Open and Closed E and O in Portuguese: Avó vs Avô
- Why Brazilians Say "Tchi" and "Dji": T and D Before I
- Portuguese R Sounds: Caro, Carro, Rato and the Brazilian H
- Brazilian Portuguese Vowel Reduction and the Final L
- Portuguese LH, NH, X, CH and Other Tricky Letters
- European vs Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation: What Changes
Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation
- Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation for Beginners: Pinyin, Tones and Syllables
- The Four Tones of Mandarin Chinese: How to Hear and Say Them
- Mandarin Tone Sandhi: The Third Tone, 一 (yī) and 不 (bù)
- Pinyin Initials: zh ch sh r, j q x and z c s Explained
- Pinyin Finals: ü, e, -i and the Vowels Pinyin Hides
- The Mandarin Neutral Tone and Erhua (the Beijing "R")
- Mandarin Tone Pairs: Practising Tones in Two-Syllable Words
- Pinyin Spelling Rules: Y, W, Apostrophes and Where the Tone Mark Goes
Hindi Pronunciation
- Hindi Pronunciation for English Speakers: Devanagari and Its Sounds
- Hindi Aspirated and Breathy Consonants: Kh, Gh, Bh, Dh and More
- Hindi Retroflex vs Dental Consonants: ट and त, ड and द
- Hindi Vowels and Mātrās: Short and Long Vowels That Change Meaning
- Hindi Nasal Vowels: Chandrabindu (ँ) and Anusvara (ं) Explained
- Hindi Schwa Deletion: When the Inherent "a" Is Silent
Language Learning Methods
How these pages are organised
Each language has two pages. The pronunciation page covers the sound system as a whole — the vowels and consonants that differ from English, the stress and rhythm rules, and the spelling-to-sound patterns worth learning first — together with a recorder that scores your accuracy, fluency and confidence. The days of the week page is a short, focused vocabulary set with transcriptions, grammar notes and the usage rules that learners most often get wrong.
The days pages are deliberately narrow. Seven words is small enough to finish in one sitting, and weekday names happen to concentrate a surprising amount of a language's phonology: French nasal vowels in lundi and vendredi, German final devoicing in -tag, Brazilian Portuguese vowel reduction in sábado, Mandarin tone sequences, and Hindi breathy-voiced consonants in budhvār. They work well as a first contact with a new sound system.
Choosing where to start
- If English is your target, start with the English or British English pronunciation page, then use the minimal pairs and stress pages to work on specific contrasts.
- If you are learning a new language, read the pronunciation page first so you know which sounds do not exist in your own language, then use the days page for repeatable practice.
- If you want to test yourself, the transcript tool transcribes your speech in real time, which shows you what a listener actually hears rather than what you intended to say.
A note on the speech tools
The recording and playback on these pages use the browser's built-in Web Speech API, so they work without an account and without uploading your voice to a server. Support and voice quality vary between browsers; Chrome and Edge currently offer the widest language coverage. If a voice sounds wrong for a language, it is usually because your browser has no native voice installed for it and is substituting a default.