A colleague of mine sent me the link to a site called Forvo, which I found very interesting. According to the website, Forvo is the largest word pronunciation dictionary in the world. Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can learner how to pronounce in over 220 languages from native speakers, sometimes with different regional accents.

For example, in Spanish the word “lluvia” (rain in English), has 8 different pronunciations. One is pronounced by a female voice and the rest are by male voices from Argentina, Columbia, Spain, Bolivia and Chile. The site even shows you a map with small flags for each country, which are links to the audio. You can also help others by recording your pronunciations in your own language.

For example, the database has over 30,000 words pronounced in Spanish and over 48,000 in English. However, it is not a language learning site but an online dictionary that helps you with pronunciation.

A colleague of mine sent me the link to a site called Forvo, which I found very interesting. Forvo claims to be the largest word pronunciation dictionary in the world. Ask for a word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can learner how to pronounce in over 220 languages from native speakers, sometimes with different regional accents.

For example, in Spanish the word “lluvia” (rain in English), has 8 different pronunciations. One is pronounced by a female voice and the rest by male voices from Argentina, Columbia, Spain, Bolivia and Chile. The site even shows you a map with small flags which are links to indicate the country an audio is from. You can also help others by recording your pronunciations in your own language.

For example, the database has over 30,000 words pronounced in Spanish and over 48,000 in English. However, Forvo is not intended for

learning a language but to hear pronunciation from different places.

Source: http://blog-de-traducciones.spanishtranslation.us/pronunciacion-2010-01-05.html