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Pronunciation Guides

How a language actually sounds, and how to make those sounds yourself. Each guide starts from the sounds you already say, then works through the ones that are new, the ones learners usually get wrong, and how the language is written down. You do not need to know any phonetics to start — the symbols are explained as they appear.

New to IPA or phonetics? Start with the plain-language IPA guide or learn what a phoneme is.

75 guides

A

Ainu

for English speakers

Amharic

for English speakers

Amharic

for Spanish speakers

Amis

for English speakers

Arabic

for English speakers

Arabic

for Spanish speakers

Armenian

for English speakers

Aymara

for English speakers

B

Basque

for English speakers

Bengali

for English speakers

Bengali

for Spanish speakers

Burmese

for English speakers

Burmese

for Spanish speakers

C

Cantonese

for English speakers

Cantonese

for Spanish speakers

Cape Verdean Creole

for English speakers

Catalan

for English speakers

Cherokee

for English speakers

Chichewa

for English speakers

F

French

for English speakers

French

for Spanish speakers

Fuzhounese

for English speakers

G

German

for English speakers

German

for Spanish speakers

Guaraní

for English speakers

H

Haitian Creole

for English speakers

Hakka

for English speakers

Hakka

for Spanish speakers

Hausa

for English speakers

Hausa

for Spanish speakers

Hawaiian

for English speakers

Hindi

for English speakers

Hindi

for Spanish speakers

Hokkien

for English speakers

Hokkien

for Spanish speakers

I

isiXhosa

for English speakers

isiZulu

for English speakers

Italian

for English speakers

Italian

for Spanish speakers

J

Javanese

for English speakers667 flashcards

Jejueo

for English speakers

K

Kinyarwanda

for English speakers

L

Lingala

for English speakers

Louisiana French

for English speakers

M

Mandarin

for English speakers

Mandarin

for Spanish speakers

Mapudungun

for English speakers

Marathi

for English speakers509 flashcards

N

Náhuatl

for English speakers

Navajo

for English speakers

P

Persian

for English speakers

Persian

for Spanish speakers

Punjabi

for English speakers

Punjabi

for Spanish speakers

Q

Québécois

for English speakers

Quechua

for English speakers

R

Romansh

for English speakers

S

Shanghainese

for English speakers

Shona

for English speakers

Spanish

for English speakers

Swahili

for English speakers

Swahili

for Spanish speakers

T

Taishanese

for English speakers

Turkish

for English speakers

Turkish

for Spanish speakers

U

Ukrainian

for English speakers

Umbundu

for English speakers

Urdu

for English speakers

Urdu

for Spanish speakers

V

Vietnamese

for English speakers

Vietnamese

for Spanish speakers

W

Wolof

for English speakers

Y

Yoruba

for Spanish speakers

Yorùbá

for English speakers

Yucatec Maya

for English speakers351 flashcards

Related on LinguaCommons

These guides use the vocabulary of phonetics throughout — phoneme, allophone, minimal pair, syllable, stress, tone and IPA. If any of those are unfamiliar, the terminology section explains them with examples, and the notation guides cover the symbols themselves.