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So even known sounds may be difficult in positions where they do not usually occur in your native language. Some languages allow very complex consonant clusters, like Polish. You can download Chrome for free to your device. Chinese for instance allows only nasal consonants as in kin and king at the end of a syllable. Once you have learned to hear the sounds or other properties, like word stress correctly, you are ready to pronounce them. There are still many unsolved questions in language learning.

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We are dependent on external funding for the implementation of exercises in English and in other languageswhich is hard to obtain. How do the exercises work?

We hope to add these exercises in future, though.

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We advise users to take these exercises on any other device including an Apple laptop. You can download Chrome for free to your device. ntny

Note that the browser is not allowed to access the microphone on an iPhone ntju iPad. By registering you allow your results to be logged, so that they can be used to improve CALST and to tailor the exercises for other learners with the same native language. Some languages allow very complex consonant clusters, like Polish.

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This is quite natural, actually. Once you have learned to hear the sounds or other properties, like word stress correctly, you are ready to pronounce them.

One size fits all? Chinese for instance allows only nasal consonants as in kin and king at the end of a syllable.

Acknowledgements History Financial support. Since there is no knowing what learners may do i. This automatically also means that it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish categories in another language. This allows you to practise with new words as much as you like. There are many vocabulary training programs out there, but CALST also offers specific pronunciation exercises, based on sound phonetic knowledge.

In contrast to many other languages, Norwegian does not have a standard pronunciation. There are still many unsolved questions in language learning.

A German learner of English may find it hard to pronounce the first sound in wewhile a Chinese learner may find it hard to say zoo instead of Sue. For example, some sounds may be easy to pronounce at the beginning of a word, but is not allowed at the end of a word in your native language: Prosody refers to properties of the language which are at a level higher than individual speech sounds.

Registered users can see the results from all the exercises they have taken.

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If a new sound category is similar to a sound category in your native language, you will perceive it as the same, even if native speakers of the language you are learning ntny clearly and easily hear and pronounce the difference.

And if a sound is not a problem in one language, you will not get exercises for it in another language you learn xalst. Acknowledgements History Financial support. This is an awesome project!

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Finally, it can be hard to know how words that you hear are written. This is called a discrimination task. Some people are better able to put the filter out of play than others.

You can take the exercises several times, with different exercise material each time you take the exercises except for the intonation exercises. One for all and all for calxt There are still many unsolved questions in language learning.

Thanks for making it! There ntu large individual differences, of course: Yes, CALST is a web-based pronunciation training platform, so you need access to the internet to run CALST — but we do use local storage to deal with short interruptions of your internet connectivity. Practice, practice, practice is best done outside of the classroom — as long as you remember to use what you have learnt in real conversations.