Learn to Pronounce Difficult Words

There are many websites to learn clear pronunciation of any words. Its nature, if a person is not able to speak correct pronunciation of certain words or name, he feels embarrassed to ask other. So here is the solution where you can learn to pronounce difficult words.

Don’t worry, If you are not able to speak the correct pronunciation of certain name or words, then its better you can use a closed-caption videos on YouTube it will be very helpful to learn the pronunciation and listen to pronounce difficult words.

Google is the best option. Definitely it may useful to students and educators. You can practice pronunciation by directly downloading the audio pronunciation file of English dictionary words from Google.

These audio pronunciation files are in MP3 format and you can directly use them, no need to go for Google Search. It’s very easy to use; you just use this URL https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/miracle.mp3 . Just replace the MIRACLE (see in the word end of the url)you need to learn and pronounce.

For example: https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/miracle.mp3                                  https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/messeigneurs.mp3

But you will get only for the English words not for non-English words or name of the person.

“Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” is a word apparent to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.

So, go to YouTube and search for any word tailed by “cc”.

Example: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, cc. Here “cc” is a youtube search operator it will show videos that have closed caption.

In you tube search results, you just select a video that has specific word in the transcript. Then click the transcript key and jump to the line containing that word (see screenshot).

You Tube has many users all around the world. You just use similar closed caption trick to learn how to pronounce the word and also how the word was pronounced in other countries of the world. All you need to do is just pick a video from the search results.

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