Free English pronunciation & accent resources

Structured courses from beginner to advanced plus short recurring series (6 Minute English, The English We Speak, pronunciation videos). Every audio has a transcript.

Best for: Daily listening habit with transcripts; the pronunciation series is clear even if you are aiming for an American accent.

beginner · intermediate · advanced · British

Learner-friendly definitions with separate US and UK audio and IPA for each word, plus an English–Spanish dictionary.

Best for: Checking word stress and the US vs UK pronunciation of a word in one place.

beginner · intermediate · advanced · American and British

Short video lessons by a group of teachers, each followed by a quiz. Covers grammar, idioms, pronunciation, business English and IELTS/TOEFL.

Best for: A focused 10-minute lesson on one specific question you have.

beginner · intermediate · advanced · American, British, Canadian

Crowdsourced pronunciation dictionary: native speakers record individual words, names and place names, tagged by country.

Best for: Names, brands and place names that dictionaries don't include.

beginner · intermediate · advanced · Many (filter by country)

Old-school but huge collection of quizzes, minimal-pair listening tests, word games and sentence lists for ESL students.

Best for: Quick minimal-pair practice (ship/sheep, full/fool) and vocabulary drills.

beginner · intermediate · American

Dictionary written for learners, with US and UK audio, collocations and word-frequency labels (the Oxford 3000/5000 lists).

Best for: Learning which words are worth learning first, and how they combine with other words.

beginner · intermediate · advanced · American and British

Animated diagrams and videos showing how the mouth, tongue and lips form each sound of American English.

Best for: Seeing exactly where your tongue should be for sounds like the American R, TH, or the vowel in 'cat'.

beginner · intermediate · advanced · American

Free, open-source audio recorder and editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Slow down native audio without changing pitch and record yourself on a second track.

Best for: Shadowing: native audio on one track, your voice on the other.

intermediate · advanced · Any

App that scores your pronunciation of words and sentences using speech recognition. A limited set of lessons is free; most content requires a subscription.

Best for: Trying automated pronunciation feedback on individual sounds.

intermediate · advanced · American

Popular British English channel covering pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

Best for: Learners aiming for British pronunciation.

intermediate · advanced · British

The reference American English dictionary, with audio pronunciations and example sentences.

Best for: American spelling, meaning and pronunciation of less common words.

intermediate · advanced · American

Well-produced lessons on pronunciation, speaking confidence and common mistakes; includes many imitation exercises.

Best for: Repeat-after-me imitation drills.

intermediate · advanced · Australian

One of the largest free libraries of American pronunciation videos: individual sounds, linking, reductions, and real-conversation analysis. A paid academy exists; the YouTube channel is free.

Best for: Advanced speakers who want to understand why American speech sounds the way it does.

intermediate · advanced · American

Speak answers to questions and an automatic system estimates your level and gives feedback. Built by Cambridge researchers; free to use.

Best for: Getting a rough speaking-level estimate and practice without a teacher.

intermediate · advanced · British

Record yourself saying sentences and get feedback from human coaches. The free plan includes a limited number of corrections per month.

Best for: Getting a human to listen to your pronunciation, for free, a few times a month.

intermediate · advanced · American and British

Type any word or phrase and hear it said by real people in thousands of YouTube clips, filtered by US, UK or Australian English.

Best for: Hearing how a word really sounds inside a sentence, with natural stress and reductions, not just a dictionary recording.

intermediate · advanced · American, British and more

Free archive of recordings of English speakers from around the world, originally made for actors learning accents.

Best for: Studying a specific regional American accent in depth.

advanced · Regional accents worldwide

Free phonetics software used by researchers. Record yourself and see your pitch (intonation) line and vowel quality, then compare with a native recording.

Best for: Advanced learners who want to see their intonation, not just hear it.

advanced · Any

Thousands of people from different language backgrounds read the same English paragraph, with phonetic transcriptions. Includes many native Spanish speakers and American English speakers.

Best for: Comparing a Spanish-accented reading with an American reading of the exact same text.

advanced · Hundreds of accents

Podcast by a non-native American-accent coach about pronunciation, confidence and sounding clear as a non-native speaker.

Best for: Advanced speakers dealing with accent and confidence, from someone who went through it.

advanced · American