Here I bring you one of the most important resources I can hand you.

This is the phonetic chart, with sound, from the Cambridge University web page. This is very important when you are going to pronunce a word and you only have the phonetic transcription. 

I strongly recomend you to listen the pronunciation and try to repeat it until you see that it sounds simmilar.

Moreover, you can listen two versions, from a man and from a woman. Just click in the top right corner of the chart.

Well, to sum up our phonetic system I have found a system where you can find EVERYTHING you need to know about American English phonetics.

It has been difficult to me to embed this here, so I hope you like it!!!

And all the anatomy of the voicing system, from the same webpage, very very interesting!!! you can translate the terms to spanish if you don't understand something. I hope with this, you'll learn a lot of how ti pronunce the phonemes in english

Here I bring you an interesting video, called The Story of Stuff. We are going to improve our listening and enrich our vocabulary.

It is a video we can considerate as educational, for children maybe quite complicated, but with teenagers and adults can be very useful. It is about consumism, economics and ecology, you like it, don't you??

To make it easier, we are going to post it with spanish subtitles. I hope you like it:

The transcription of the video, with annotations of the writer, you can find HERE in PDF

Or you can see it directly here, footnoted by the author.

This is very important for teachers, when they have to teach english, pronunciation is basic, but if you want to improve your english, this is really neccessary.

There I bring you a slideshow I have done myself. There are several exercises about discriminate which word is pronunced with the right phoneme. When you download it, you'll be able to see how it really works, because you'll be able to listen the phoneme, to see if you have done it right or wrong... well, there it is!!

Well, today we are going to do an exercise of Listening!!! based on the Audio-lingual method, repeating several times the words we are going to learn how to pronunce the lyrics of this song. Much better than repeating some sentences without sense!!

I have written the lyrics behind the video, but this is not right! the parts in Bold ar wrong, or not!! so you have to listen carefully and try to see if it needs changes or it is ok. Good Luck!

To hear the song, I bring you the Video from youtube.

Maroon 5 - Won't go home without you




I asked her to stay but she wouldn't listen
She left before I had the chance to say
Oh
The words that would mend the things that were woken
But now it's far too late, she's said goodbye

Every night you cry yourself to see
Thinking: "Why does this happen to me?
Why does every moment have to be so hard?"
Hard to believe that

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make all night
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you

The last of her breath, I'll never get over
The noises that she made kept me away
Oh
The weight of things that remained unshaken
Built up so much it crushed us everyday

Every night you cry yourself to sleep
Thinking: "Why does this happen to me?
Why does every moment have to be so heard?"
Hard to believe that

It's not over all right
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it truth the night
I won't go home without you

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you

Of all the things I felt but never really shown
Perhaps the worst is that I ever let you grow
I should not ever let you go, oh oh oh

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it thought the night
I won't go home without you

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it fight
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you

Now, if you want to check the lyrics and see if you have it right, HERE you can see the original lyrics.

Here you have the lyrics

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours. Floss Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth. But trust me on the sunscreen…

Of Course, if you have any doubt about what is the meaning of a word, or some idiom, post a comment and I'll answer you.