From a combination of not learning phonics and learning most of my vocabulary from books, I often embarrass myself by pronouncing words incorrectly in conversation. I know AWAD comes with an audio recording of words. This I really appreciate. Do these come from some other service I could access? Is there any dictionary site online that provides audio files of the correct pronunciation of words?

theVixen

Welcome, Vix!

Check out OneLook Dictionary.com

Enter a word, and lots of dictionaries will come up to click on. MW, among several others, has an audio feature for pronuncation.

Happy hunting,
WordWicks

Edit: The url is:

http://www.onelook.com/

Here is something that might interest you. Not easy to learn, though.

http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html

Oh wonderous day ... are you hinting there is a place I can go to hear Aussie and Oz and Brit pronunciations ...
Now *that* should be fun~!

Why thank you. Merriam-Webster's dictionary works quite well. As for being correct, well I may still pronounce words differently from most, but at least I can now point the blame to someone other than myself. :-) Thank you.


theVixen

For a comparative take, try this resource from the excellent alt-usage-english site:

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml