American English Pronunciation Patterns Professional 4.2 + 1 Year Membership (Based on Phonics) : Perfect English Pronunciation Software to Help You Improve Pronunciation, Speaking, Vocabulary, Spelling, Listening, and Reading, and Reduce Accent. | 
| From: xCers Corp
Buy New: $250.00
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 3332
Format: Content/copy-protected Cd
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
UPC: 989811253631
EAN: 0989811253631
ASIN: B000PKMFQ2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new from the creator
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| Features:
| • | All the features in the professional 3.0 version plus the following features | | • | Integrated web browser with many advanced features to help you improve your listening and speaking | | • | International Phonetic Transcripts (IPA) and American Phonetic Transcripts (APA) for all 4,000 words | | • | Integrated video player to help you improve listening when you watch movies or MTVs | | • | 1 year membership to access many online contents such as online lessons, patterns tutorial, etc. |
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Product Description
Pronunciation Patterns uses phonics and patterns to help non-native English speakers learn, correct & improve, and perfect English pronunciation in 1 year. We believe that the English solution people purchase has to work for them. Therefore, we offer the demos for you to download at the official Pronunciation Patterns web site.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
Must Have to Improve Pronunciation and Reduce Accent September 10, 2007
O. Aguilar
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the best Tool I have found so far to helps improve your pronunciation and reduce accent.
1.- The program has a great feature called RULES which has four categories. One of them is the Silent Category and provides a list of letters that are silent in a word. Examples of very simple words that can be mispronounced are: the word bomb, you don't pronounce the second "b", or the word island, you don't pronounce the "s". And there are many other categories that provide easy to learn and remember rules about common mispronounce words and how to avoid those pitfalls. How can that help, you may ask? Well if you don't have to memorize the word because you already know the meaning and how to spell... then all you need is to tweak you pronunciation with the simple to follow rules.
2.- The program displays the word using a color code scheme. The legend for the colors is included and can be customize to colors that works better for you. I recommend increasing the font size so you can better distinguish the color coded letters. How can this help? You can easily see what letters are silent, stressed, unstressed, patterns, and exceptions. This provides reinforcement learning because you listen to the correct pronunciation and see how the word is broken down by color coded hints. To visual learners this will answer you prayers.
3.- The program has a non-linear learning approach which allows you to decide what you would like to learn or practice. My approach is to remember which words I have problem pronouncing or I have been told I mispronounce...and that's where I start. I can search by letters, vowels, consonants, and others. Once I find the word I can get to work...another feature is that it allows me to create a list of similar words to so I can really reinforce my learning.
That is just of the features that I have found extremely useful but there are a lot more that complements what you have learned so far in order to take it to the next step.
If you are like me that have already wasted lots of money on books, CDs, DVDs with very little gain, which can be very disappointing, then this is the answer to our prayers. Within 30 minutes I corrected about fifty (50) words that I thought I was pronouncing right but was dead wrong and I was able to easily understand why. As you can see, it takes very little time to make big improvements.
Remember, improving pronunciation and reducing accent are just two excellent benefits of this program, there are a lot more that will benefit beginners as well as advance learners. You'll be hooked in no time, and trust me this would be one of those rare occasions where it is OK...
Amazing Software, verry helpful , December 2, 2007
Abdo (Sterling Heights , michigan)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Waoo!!!!, it is an amazing software for anyone who has encountered problem with speaking and listening English language.
like thousand of peaple who tried to learn English i bought all kind of the software availble on the market during the last few years . and each time i get the same problem. i have a good understanding when i read English but i had an absolute problem with the listening and speaking. until i discover this famous software.
I start using it only 23 days, and the result are really very impressive.I notice a big improvement in my expression- I m more confident when speaking , now i m sure that people understand my message- also, my listening has been improved immensely.
my english improvement was noticed also by my coworkers.
Thanks to this software, i understand for the first time that the Biggest problem with the English language is that is a phonetic language , where we have to learn the different sounds. and this software bring the appropriate solution to this problem.
this software is really richest mine of new and innovative tools, it allow the user to focus on the specific sounds that cause him problem , you can also create your own list of the words that cause you problem and you can practice them until you feel better. it allow also to learn new vocabulary. really , i m very satisfied with this software the highest quality of their service.
I recommend Pronunciation pattern strongly to anyone who has problem with the English language. Just try it and you will see the difference.
Abdo, Sterling Heights, Michigan
Remarkable program June 14, 2007
C. Anyadike
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was looking for a program to help me correct my pronunciation and found what i now consider to be the most remarkable accent reduction program. The program exceeded my expectations. It has an incredible array of features that will impress even the most hardened critic.
Pronunciation patterns has an extraordinary assembly of all the tools you need to improve pronunciation and more; it has precise description of mouth mechanics required to produce each sound supplemented by video mouth clips,in addition to load of words to interactively practice with and links to interactive websites all geared to help improve pronunciation,fluency,and vocabulary.
And customer service was excellent and prompt.
This program is bound to become the gold standard against which others are compared.
Thanks Xcers corp. for a remarkable program.
C.Anyadike
 Good product June 24, 2007
Viet
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm Vietnamese student. Pronunciation Patterns is very good one as follows:
1/ Clearly sound and easy to repeat.
2/ There are thousands of new words to learn.
3/ program is very good at automaticly repeating, recording and replaying
4/ Customer service is very kindness and willingness.Excellent!
Some points that the author needs to improve:
1/ Some words do not match with the sounds
2/ Lack of some dipthong souds
3/ Diagram is not very perfect. It means that it's very difficult to realize what s student need to improve after recording his or her voice.
4/ In CD, the authour should only use the words that you already set up in your program. I saw some words in the screen, but in fact they are not in the program so it makes customer unsatisfied.
5/ I do not like to use CD to much, because it may harm CD driver; Why don't you think about the way to copy it into only one computer and open it without CD?
6/The price is too high for a student.
Anyway, it is 4/5
Hope you enjoy it.
Amazing Pronunciation Software December 5, 2007
S. Saks (Chicago, IL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Learning a second language is challenging, but worthwhile goal. With this well designed program and some motivation, you can learn English as a second language. This software is user - friendly so anyone can successfully learn english pronunciation regardless of english or experience with computers. This software teaches pronunciation using a variety of tools. It is simple to install and setup on your computer, provide adequate help and support to anyone through email.
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