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Chantez-vous Français? Remarques curieuses sur le français chanté du Moyen Age à la période baroque. (Do you sing French? Interesting remarks about French sung in the Middle Ages at the baroque period.) Olivier Bettens' website about Medieval French Song, including pronunciation and other excellent information. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Collins Dictionaries Online © 1995 HarperCollins Publishers Online, hosted by wordreference.com. Wow! Online word-lookup search boxes for the Collins Dictionaries in Spanish, Italian, German, French, and English. The French, Italian, English and German entries include IPA pronunciations! (Also offers WordReference Personal free webpage translation software for Windows only.) Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

IPA Bingo. Commercial product from Cascadilla Press "can be used with large or small classes to encourage students to learn the IPA symbols used for transcribing American English or to reinforce their knowledge of articulatory descriptions. IPA Bingo is a fun way for students to practice using the IPA symbols. Package includes rules for IPA Bingo, 100 different game cards for students to use, and 2 sets of caller cards for the instructor to use. The rules include suggestions for variations." Special Note: The materials for IPA Bingo are available online for free download as pdf files for non-commercial use if you would prefer to print them out yourself. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Language Games. free IPA card games to spice up your diction classroom activities. Fun classroom activites for learning and using phonetics, developed for undergraduate linguistics courses but easily adaptable for music diction. Offers IPA card decks for sale as well. UPDATE: author lists the IPA cards as out of stock, but will reprint them if there is enough interest. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Latin Resources Online. Check out this outstanding webpage of Latin Resources Online, which includes sound files and sections on Latin Pronunciation. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks. "This site has annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites. The links have been selected and annotated with the aim of directing ... colleagues and other interested scholars to some useful internet resources." Includes links about Chinese dialectology (including Cantonese), phonetics, and phonology, both synchronic and diachronic, plus general resources for linguistics. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Norwegian Pronunciation from Norskklassen, the Norwegian class on the Net. Norwegian pronunciation with IPA symbols. (Alternative (non-IPA) guide available at http://frodo.bruderhof.com/norskklassen/sounds-t.htm.) Page created by Sarah Brodwall. Sounds spoken by Arne Kjell Foldvik, native of Larvik i Vestfold, Norway. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Online Phonetics Course from the Department of Linguistics, University of Lausanne. Available in English or French. (NB: we suggest you download the latest version of Quicktime to access the online sound files.) An outstanding website, "designed to teach the fundamentals of phonetics and mastery of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)." Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Phonetics Laboratory at the University of Victoria, B.C., includes an online IPA Lab with sound files. (An online voice quality lab is under construction.) Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Phonetics: External Links. An excellent page of linguistic links on the web, compiled by Universiteit Utrecht. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Resources for Studying Human Speech. George Dillon's outstanding collection of resources about the study of human speech. From freeware programs to IPA transcription tools, you can find it here. Topics include: Phones and Phonemes of English, Speech Waveform Analysis, Text to Speech (TTS) Synthesizers, Speech Recognition, Archives and Search Index. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Sanford, Sally A. A Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the 17th Century. This wonderful website includes a wealth of high-quality audio samples, and a well-researched discussion of singing styles in 17th Century Italy and France. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Scottish Gaelic Language Learning Materials. Includes links to dictionaries, Scottish Gaelic Course Materials, Songs for Singers, music recordings and a special feature where native Gaelic speaker Donald Macdonald can provide you with the proper pronunciation for difficult Gaelic words using the PureVoice program. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Spoken Thai for the Internet "has been adapted from the book of the same name authored by Mary R. Haas and Heng R. Subhanka and first published in 1945 by the Linguistic Society of America." This outstanding resource includes 17 units with exercises, tutorials, drills and soundfiles. The site also has links to an IPA font. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Stirling University's on-line phonology course. "This course has been designed as a self-access course for all those interested in learning the script and identifying the sounds of the phonology of British Received Pronunciation. " Interesting site includes diagrams and IPA in an easy-to understand format. Sections on consonants and vowels are particularly useful. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Swahili Pronunciation Guide includes a non-IPA but very helpful overview of Swahili pronunciation. Includes clear soundfiles. Recommended. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Finnish language by Jukka "Yucca" Korpela. Outstanding page includes Finnish Pronunciation section, plus links to additional Finnish language resources. Note especially Visit Site , a summary of Finnish pronunciation using IPA! Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian. Dr. Kelley L. Ross' truly outstanding web-resource discussing the origins and known information about the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian, with references to other early languages. Interesting reading, complete with graphics and a chart of sounds/symbols. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Pronunciation of the Portuguese of Portugal by R. Harmsen. Guide to the pronunciation of European Portuguese, includes IPA, sound files and primary differences from Brazilian Portugese. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Singer's Dilemma: Tone Versus Diction. Online article by Shirlee Emmons offers tips and techniques for improving diction, especially in English and German. Uses IPA for vowel descriptions. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Thai Alphabets is a tutorial with soundfiles, presented by the Thai Language Audio Resource Center. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Word of the Day in Irish by Dennis King. While this site does contain an Irish Gaelic word-of-the-day feature and archive, it is the links and additional resources that make this a must-visit site. In particular, check out the sections called Features, Resources for Beginners, and Links. Some resources also include Scottish Gaelic, Old Irish, and Welsh. "The Pronunciation and Spelling of Modern Irish" page at Visit Site includes a non-IPA pronunciation guide to Irish Gaelic. Mainpage for this site is Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

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Fonts in Cyberspace: A guide to finding language fonts on the Internet. Containing more than 411 sources for 126 languages. Brought to you by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, this is the motherlode of all font sources, most of which are downloadable. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Magnetic Phonetics 2 from Cascadilla Press is a purchasable set of 276 magnetic tiles with all of the IPA symbols for English (broad transcription) printed on them. Using these, you or your students can play a phonetic version of Crossword or Scrabble, or practice creating transcriptions on any metal surface. Also fun for your refrigerator or student waiting area. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

SIL IPA Fonts. The fine folks at The Summer Institute of Linguistics provide downloadable IPA fonts in True Type and PostScript Type 1 formats free of charge. Both Mac and Windows formats are available, and the fonts will work with most keyboards. The SIL-IPA free fonts contain the smaller set of IPA phonemes used by singers for Romance-language transcription, but if you need a larger, more comprehensive set of phonemes, they offer those for a small fee. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Spoken Thai for the Internet "has been adapted from the book of the same name authored by Mary R. Haas and Heng R. Subhanka and first published in 1945 by the Linguistic Society of America." This outstanding resource includes 17 units with exercises, tutorials, drills and soundfiles. The site also has links to an IPA font. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

General Language

African languages & cultures. Links to online resources including Afroasiatic languages, Khoesan languages, Niger-Congo languages, Bantu languages, Nilosaharan languages, and European and European-lexified languages in Africa. An excellent source to begin your studies. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Alex's Multilingual Webpages have lots of links to language resources and dictionaries. A wide variety of languages is included at this site. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Resources for Students and Teachers of English as a Second Language. Selected by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Writers' Workshop. Includes links to Academic ESL Departments, Dictionaries, Grammars and Phrasebooks, ESL News, Reviews, Journals, Bulletin Boards and Writing Forums, ESL Resources for Teachers, ESL Theory and Applied Linguistics, and Fun ESL Sites and Chatboards. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

Russian and Slavic Resources. This site has numerous links including Russian language resources, on-line abstracts from the Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in the WWW, Old Church Slavonic texts, and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!

The Linguist List. Dictionaries, etc. This is a wonderful resource for dictionaries, from Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. Visit Site   A Diction Domain SuperSite!