I still can't get the knack of English pronunciation.
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Pronunciation
/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
Synonyms for "pronunciation" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Noun(5 words)
Strong matches (11)
Noun(8 words)
dictiondrilldutch articulerenenunciatingenunciationgerman artikulierenitalian articolarelaut artikulieren
Related words (19)
Adjective(2 words)
lexical attributeverbal articulation
Noun(15 words)
oralizationorthoepyphonetic spellingphonetic transcriptionportuguese articularpracticeproper pronunciationspeech abilitiesspeech abilityspeech related traitspeech skillstandard pronunciationtalk clearlytonguingutterance
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Related word relations
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More general
16 entrieslanguagelanguage learning activitylinguistic featurelinguistic notationoral communicationorthographyspeechspeech actspeech communicationspeech patternspoken communicationspoken languageteaching activityutterancevocalizationvoice communication
More specific
7 entriesAmerican pronunciationBritish pronunciationIPA transcriptionbroad transcriptionnarrow transcriptionoral drillsounding exercise
Collocations
5 entriesclear pronunciationcorrect pronunciationpronunciation guideregional pronunciationstandard pronunciation
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
115 translations across 84 languages.
Afrikaans
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Albanian
1 entries- shqiptim noun (way in which words are pronounced)
Amharic
1 entries- አነጋገር noun (way in which words are pronounced)
Arabic
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Armenian
1 entries- արտասանություն noun (way in which words are pronounced)
Asturian
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Azerbaijani
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Bashkir
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Belarusian
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Bulgarian
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Carpathian Rusyn
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Catalan
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Chinese
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Czech
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Esperanto
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Estonian
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Finnish
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French
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Georgian
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German
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Hungarian
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Indonesian
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Interlingua
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Iranian Persian
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Irish
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Italian
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Lao
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Marathi
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Northern Kurdish
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Romanian
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Romansch
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Turkish
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Turkmen
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Urdu
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Uyghur
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Zhuang
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Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Please correct my pronunciation.
Source: tatoeba (38823)
Mr Smith drilled them in English pronunciation.
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In this dictionary the pronunciation comes right after the headword.
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