Author: EasyPronunciation

We have just released the Portuguese version of the Alphabet game. As a quick reminder – this game can help you achieve a so-called high-performance state in which your language learning ability is highly increased.

We added English subtitles in Russian vocabulary builder. We hope it will help people who learn Russian with this online course.

Information for people with the subscriptions “Frequent User” and “One Language”. We want to add short reviews from users to our website. This review should contain information on how you use our site and whether it helped you improve your pronunciation. We understand that writing a review may require some time. In order to motivate… Continue reading Free account upgrade on EasyPronunciation.com

There’s an change in our policy related to the money-back guarantee. In September 2017 we introduced lifetime money-back guarantee for our pronunciation courses. At that time, the only way to watch these courses was to use Pronunciation Player. All the videos in this software were encrypted and protected from illegal copying. Later we integrated most of… Continue reading Change in our policy

We added an option that allows you to display the transcription under each word. This option only works in Mozilla Firefox.

We added the support for Brazilian Portuguese in IPA phonetic translator for Portuguese. This tool is still in beta.

We added the support for connected speech in Spanish phonetic translator. Here are few examples of the phonetic transcriptions obtained with this new option: tu universidad tu.ni.βɛɾ.si.ˈðað  (connected speech) tu u.ni.βɛɾ.si.ˈðað está aquí ɛs.ˈta.ˈki  (connected speech) ɛs.ˈta a.ˈki

We are releasing the beta version of Portuguese phonetic translator. At first, I was inspired by this IPA converter for Portuguese. I started testing it with the phonetic transcriptions from the book The Phonology of Portuguese. And I wasn’t really satisfied with the results. Our Portuguese phonetic translator right now gives the comparable results. During… Continue reading Beta version of Portuguese phonetic translator released

During the last week I made a lot of changes in the algorithm of the Spanish phonetic translator. Most of the changes are based on the book Manual de fonética y fonología españolas. That includes: better support for Spanish allophones, yeísmo (when the words “callo” and “cayo” are pronounced the same), splitting the words into syllables,… Continue reading Updates in Spanish phonetic translator

If you use our Japanese phonetic converter, you may have noticed a lot of changes recently. The most important one is that now it shows the inflected word forms of the verbs and adjectives as single words. Before they were split into meaningless pieces, such as “食べ” “まし” “た”. What will be really cool about… Continue reading More updates in Japanese kanji converter