Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 3rd Edition

The
authoritative guide to over 225,000 pronunciations in both British and
American English has been updated in a new edition - now complete with
the brand new Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM which gives students
lots of practical help to improve their own pronunciation.The new third
edition of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary gives students detailed
guidance on over 225,000 pronunciations. Fully revised for 2008, it
includes new words such as iTunes, Skype and Tikrit. This new edition
also includes the brand new Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM which
gives students practical help to improve their own pronunciation.

Need help with pronunciation? The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary:
* Helps students with over 225,000 pronunciations in both British and American English using the International Phonetic Alphabet
* Helps students with intonation by showing the stress patterns of thousands of compounds and idioms
*
Features user-friendly graphs showing the preferred pronunciations of
British and American speakers, based on extensive research by Professor
Wells

NEW - now with the Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM
*
Students can listen to the pronunciation of all entries in British and
American English, then record and check their own pronunciation
*
Self Study Lab - Students can learn the International Phonetic Alphabet
and practise their pronunciation with thousands of interactive
exercises and feedback from Professor Wells
* Teachers' Resource Centre provides you with downloadable exercises for use in class

Out now! Visit the Longman Dictionaries site, with three video clips of me talking about the new edition.

What s new in LPD3?
The third edition continues the excellent tradition of the previous editions, but with extensive additions and improvements.

* 3000 added headwords
* results of two new opinion polls
* CD-ROM with the Longman Pronunciation Coach

New headwords Among the new headwords are
*
proper names, e.g. Athenry, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bussell, Cruyff,
Ericsson, Obama, Rowling, Sentamu, Tehachapi, Titchmarsh, Verizon,
Whampoa, Zellweger;
* terms relating to the internet, e.g. blogging, chatroom, digicam, eBay, Facebook, Google, podcast, Wikipedia, YouTube;
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and thousands of other assorted new words, e.g. Asbo, bird flu, Botox,
chav, latte, nanobot. Among words beginning fa-, for instance, you will
now also find faddy, fade-in, ~censored~-hag, fairness,
fair-to-middling, fakie, falling-off, falling-out, fan-assisted,
fanciable, fancy-dress, Fannie Mae, fantasist, farthermost, fat-free,
fault-tolerant, fava.

As in previous editions, non-English words
come with the foreign-language phonetics as well as an appropriate
anglicization: among the new additions are Abu Ghraib, al Qaeda, haram,
niqab, and Sharm-el-Sheikh (Arabic), Ahmadinejad (Farsi), Benfica
(Portuguese), Federer (German), gaijin and sudoku (Japanese), kimchi
(Korean), mojito (Spanish), Putin (Russian), qi and Qingdao (Chinese),
Sarkozy and Taizé (French), Terfel (Welsh), Tórshavn (Faroese).
Preference polls

In
addition to the pronunciation preference polls reported in the previous
edition, there are now also polling results from two more polls, both
conducted on-line:

* for AmE, a survey conducted by Prof. Bert
Vaux, including among others the words almond, asterisk, caramel,
chromosome, Presley, Thanksgiving and thespian;
* for BrE, a survey
conducted by Pearson Education and the author, including among others
the words contribute, dissect, kilometre, liquorice, omega, tinnitus
and tune. (more...)

CD-ROM with the Longman Pronunciation Coach

The CD-ROM bundled with the dictionary includes

* spoken versions of every headword, in BrE and AmE
* the entire text of the dictionary, on-screen
* a Self-Study Lab (interactive exercises with feedback)
* a Teachers’ Resource Centre with worksheets and suggestions for classroom activities

Home page - http://www.longman.ch/LanguageTeaching/Dictionaries/Dictionaries-British

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