[If you're interested in pronunciation, do check out my Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/1410039381/fluent-forever-foreign-language-pronunciation-trai ] First Video: youtu.be/-e66ByetpDY Second Video (Consonants: Place): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJR1VPzayu0 Third Video (Vowels): www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeaghqkLRi8 The third video tutorial on the International Phonetic Alphabet and English Pronunciation. This one covers the English Vowels and vowel characteristics in general - Height, Rounding and Backness, with the eventual goal of helping you learn your target language pronunciation based on better understanding your native language. Some Links: The main website: www.towerofbabelfish.com Specific language resources for most of the commonly learned languages: www.towerofbabelfish.com/Tower_of_Babelfish.com/Languages.html Anki Deck: www.towerofbabelfish.com/cms/?page_id=175 Wiki's article on IPA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet English Phonology: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Phonology The Sounds of French (aka "How to learn new vowels"): youtu.be/hI2Pso1dDjM Some more vowel charts: French, German, Italian, English RP and GA: www.helsinki.fi/speechsciences/projects/vowelcharts/ Russian (compared with German, oddly enough): www.tuninst.net/Romabama/Bur-Gramm2/prop-vow/vow-German-Russian.GIF Spanish (and everything else): bartus.org/akustyk/vowel_systems.html Czech: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_phonology @TowerBabelfish: t.co/QyVhampn

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