MEDEA Awards 2008 Finalist: BBC Pronunciation Tips

The main element of Pronunciation Tips is a series of 44 free videos showing the sounds of English. These videos encourage the user to not only practice the sounds of English but also to learn and use the phonetic symbols that represent them.
What the judges said of this entry:
Great resource that is of use to learners across the world. Completely free of charge. Highly flexible and adaptive to suit individual learning preferences, styles and environments. Very high quality self learning approach, rich resources, clear objectives, communication and flow clear and appealing. Diversification of activities clearly helps the learner to grasp the content and skills quicker. Video, images and sound used very effectively for the purpose of the learning. The application is simple and easy to use for self learning, for teacher support as well as for supported classroom teaching and learning. Exemplary approach for pronunciation training in language learning.
Callum Robertson, online producer of the website BBC Learning English has worked for the BBC since 1998 and in English language teaching since 1986.
It was while teaching in London in 1998 that he was asked to write and present a radio series for BBC English. This led to other free-lance commissions and in 2000 Callum gave up regular classroom teaching to work full-time at the BBC. As well as producing radio series for learners and teachers of English Callum also began to work on internet projects for the developing web presence of what was to become bbclearningenglish.com.

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• English

[mdkoofia]

I'm not against IPA but they are only for broadcasters. they're kind of celeb and we are not. learning IPA will be double work for us. Most importantly most people don't follow broadcaster spoken in their respecting languages and doing all good jobs and businesses. so what are all those broadcasters spoken gonna do in our life??? are they any use for common people??

[mdkoofia]

Most of the people are not going to be a Newscaster. Why the pronunciations of IPA and majority people of native speakers are way different. learning pronunciation word by word are the great backfire and a total misleading. we need to learn in a conversation connected way, not word by word. If someone who studies English alongside his native language already know basic IPA. Please put us to mainstream people.

[mdkoofia]

i'm sorry that i'm going to comment little harsh.Those IPA way pronouncing for the newscaster/ TV presenters and some professionals. Majority of the people do not follow those so-called all correct pronunciation style. They are broadcaster English and likewise broadcaster spoken for other languages people don't follow. Even in my native language we hardly see any pronunciation dictionary let alone to follow them and symbols! are they fooling us. Majority natives don't follow IPA and doing well.

[muhammadhussainbalti]

Tthanks to BBC for putting such a precious trainning of english learning and free.

[MannylMul]

EXCELENT COURSES FOR PRONUNCIATION.  cecilia

[fritzdonayre]

Is very interesante ta chvr, a mi me gusta la pagina de BBC , is good for learners like me.