Living Language

Perfect for drive-time listening and pronunciation practice!, September 15, 2015 By L.

EXCELLENT ESL tool for listening and pronunciation -- on the audible site ratings are strangely low, so I was inspired to offer my two cents here. I have been teaching all levels of ESL to native-Japanese and native-Spanish speakers for decades, and was delighted to find this resource for intermediate/advanced learners. It's exactly what I'd have been looking for if I'd believed it existed: I actually thought such a program, to deal with some of the knottier pronunciation challenges in English, might be impossible to create. It gives sophisticated but useful explanations for why many elements work the way they do, relates well to current speech-training vocabulary and is very reassuring for all of us who get alarmed over all the exceptions-to-rules in the English language. I would say the content and pacing is just about PERFECT for listening (and repeating aloud) in the car.… (mais)