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imperfect but useful animated mouth-diagrams of all the English phonemes.

these urban-subculture-image models need to be taken to a skatepark and made to demonstrate their skills, or face a gang of very lonely and very muscular prisoners.

my bird made me stumble this.

p! p! b! b! : nearly so good - clickable noise-making phonemic chart for English. But half the consonants have an unnecessary and misleading schwa after them! please update!

this is a useful archive of accents for linguists and voice actors. speakers from all corners of the globe were recorded reading a text in English that uses all the phonemes and elicits some of the main linking issues. The site is not without drawbacks. First, reading a flat-affect text written by someone else doesn't allow the speaker's natural communicative intonation to emerge, so we can't get a clear idea of their suprasegmental competence. Secondly, some of the speakers ostensibly representing a language group had such developed English that their contribution told us nothing of their origins. Finally, some major language groups are absent from the archive. What happened to Xhosa? with 7M+ native speakers, mainly in South Africa, you'd think they'd have at least one. Xhosa speakers sound great in English, and lots of them want to learn because Deh A lookin fo WOK!

This website is a mess, but I have to start marking my students' work like this. Love the illustration.

This intelligent and well-intentioned site gathers evidence of malpractice by big corporations. I know these outfits are sitting ducks, and full of normal, un-evil employees... but those few bad apples at the top and the unquestioning analysts that support them warrant a good intellectual attack, and this is pretty good ammunition.

I'd call myself a Dylan fan but in this case I think Fairport Convention's cover is leagues ahead. props to Dylan for writing it, but he hides his light under a bushel in the original.