Interactive Phonemic Chart
Adrian Underhill's Interactive Phonemic Chart! This excellent teaching tool can be played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the English phoneme set.
Note: The chart may take a couple of minutes to appear the first time you visit this page. Please be patient - it's worth the wait!


Flash, size 2.48 Mb




Readers' comments (16)
vlombardi | Wed, 7 Mar 2012 1:34 pm
EXCELLENT!!! Thank you Adrian! Virginia Lombardi- Argentina-
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inlingua_edin | Tue, 6 Dec 2011 6:51 pm
Yes. I agree with French Frank and Anonymous when they say that the voiceless consonants shouldn't be followed by the schwa. "strength" would become something like, "suh-tuh-renth."
Also the example of "4" for the long "o" is, in my opinion, a poor choice - "saw" would be much better. There is much less difference in the way "saw" is pronounced in Oxford, Leeds and Aberdeen than the way "four" is pronounced the length and breadth of the country.
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Anonymous | Thu, 23 Jun 2011 2:58 am
Agree with Anonymous re schwa. I wouldn't use the resource becuse of that. Pity - potentially very useful.
Margaret Oz
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Handson | Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:55 pm
I cannot download it which program should I use?
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Rossy | Thu, 7 Apr 2011 4:09 am
It´s very useful for me and my students.
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SMD | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 4:15 pm
Does anyone know of one of these charts with sounds using an American "R"? Thanks!
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french frank | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 8:30 am
Agree with Anonymous about the shwa after the voiceless consonants. Shopper and shop would be the same using this model.
Would be useful to have a separate group for the voiceless consonants.
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Anonymous | Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:23 pm
There seems to be no way to download this stuff! I've been trying intermittently for a couple of hours! That's a pretty frequent phenomenon with a lot more resources, which produces a great deal of frustration!
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Anonymous | Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:09 pm
Potentially terrific but I was concerned to hear the shwa after the voiceless consonants and nasals. I wouldn't use this with my class because of that.
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David Perez | Fri, 25 Feb 2011 5:11 pm
hello:
I saw this and is very good, but when i tried to downloaded, it keeps telling me that i need i program to run it, Does anybody know what program is it?
thanks for your help
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