For written practice worksheets and handouts about pronouncing American English, follow this link.

You may also wish to listen to a variety of speakers producing selected vowels of American English in words and sentences - go to the auditory training page.  

Please note that audio files are in .wav format, and work best with Firefox.

The University of Iowa's Phonetics Flash Animation Project has animated side views and live action front views of productions of speech sounds. Sounds are divided into consonants and vowels, and further divided by their place, manner and voicing. Follow the link and click on "English" to begin.

About.com's web page shows the top 250 most common words in English. If you click on a word, you will hear it pronounced correctly in English - you may have to turn the volume on your computer way up to hear it. This page also contains links to the other 750 most common words. Note: this is a commercial website.

The Internet TESL Journal and the ESL Blues websites have grammar and vocabulary activities and quizzes, crosswords, and podcasts from ESL teachers.