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Forvo is a collaborative online pronunciation guide for any language in the world. Users post words or names they wish to be able to pronounce and native-speaking members of the community upload recordings of themselves saying the word or rate other people’s pronunciations. These recordings are then archived and are available by searching on topic, language or part of speech.
At the end of 2009 this brilliant site designed to teach skills to BBC journalists was opened to public access in the UK. Using hundreds of video and audio examples alongside interactive modules, the site provides masterclasses covering craft skills, law, and ethics & values. There is also an active discussion forum, glossary, and currently a section on covering the general election. It is intended to make the site available by subscription outside the UK. Part of the BBC Academy, see also the separate entry for the sister site, BBC College of Production.
American online store of Russian audio and video material, which includes generous audio and video clips (using Windows Media Player) of the most popular titles and the latest releases. The site is predominantly written in Russian but an English version is provided.
Site offering many Mantras and prayers in their original language in audio files that can be heard using RealPlayer. In addition there are a number of essays on Gods of the Hindu faith and Hinduism in general as well as items on other religions such as Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Membership is free.
This George Mason University site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Ninety-one national origins are covered from Afrikaans to Zulu. Details of nationality, age, sex, residence and the means by which they learned English are given. The paragraph each person reads has been chosen for containing most of the consonants, vowels, and clusters of standard American English: 'Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station'. The audio files use QuickTime.
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