Learn English: Pronunciation
John Doan Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Learn English: Pronunciation is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by John Doan. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 16.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 1 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 8
- 2026 · v2.4.0
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About Learn English: Pronunciation
Sheep or ship? Think or sink? Best or vest? If those pairs sound the same to you, that is not a vocabulary problem — it is a listening problem, and it is the one thing most English apps never train. This one starts there. HEAR THE DIFFERENCE • 14 sound contrasts, 70 minimal pairs — the sounds that actually change meaning • Sheep/Ship, Light/Right, Think/Sink, Best/Vest, Cat/Cut, Pear/Bear, Sea/She, Chair/Share, Fan/Van, Pen/Pan, Thin/Thing, Price/Prize, Jet/Yet, Pool/Pull • Four dedicated pronunciation lessons: TH sounds, R and L, long and short vowels, and S / SH / CH • Hear a word, choose which one you heard. It is harder than it looks, and it is exactly the skill that makes fast speech understandable EVERY WORD SHOWS ITS SOUND • IPA phonetic notation on all 361 words • A plain sound-it-out hint, like AP-uhl for "apple" — for when IPA is not yet familiar • A real example sentence you can hear • Tap anything to hear it again, as many times as you like 26 VOCABULARY LESSONS, 361 WORDS Alphabet, Numbers, Colors, Animals, Food & Drink, Family, Body, Days & Months, Time & Weather, Common Phrases, Jobs, Clothes, House & Home, Action Verbs, Feelings, Places Around Town, Transportation, Fruits & Vegetables, School & Study, Nature, Sports & Hobbies, Opposites — plus the four pronunciation lessons. 30 GRAMMAR TOPICS A short rule, seven real examples, and fill-in-the-blank practice for each one. Articles through to second conditionals and relative clauses — 210 examples and 104 drills. Answer by tapping a choice or by typing it, whichever you find harder. PRACTICE THAT IS ACTUALLY PRACTICE • Listening quiz — hear a word, pick it from four • Grammar drills — tap or type, across every topic • Minimal pairs — the ear training, mixed or by contrast • Save any word to Favorites and come back to it HOW THE AUDIO WORKS, HONESTLY Every word and sentence is spoken by the built-in iOS speech voice, not by a recording. That is a deliberate trade: it is why the app is 100% offline with nothing to download, why you can slow the speech right down when a word is hard, and why you can switch between American, British, Australian and Indian English voices in Settings. FREE, AND ACTUALLY FREE • No ads, no accounts, no sign-up, no subscription, nothing locked • No tracking and no analytics of any kind • No permissions requested — not the microphone, not notifications, nothing • Works completely offline, on a plane or with no signal • iPhone and iPad Built for adult learners who want to understand real English, not collect points.
What’s new
Version 2.4.0 · Updated September 8, 2026
Version 2.4 — fixes that matter, and a listing that finally says what this app is. FIXED • The app now plays sound even when your phone's silent switch is on. If the app has ever seemed silent for no reason, this was why. • Practice is available on every grammar topic. Sixteen of the thirty topics had a practice button that opened an empty round — all thirty work now. • The listening quiz no longer asks the same word twice in one round, and can no longer show you two identical choices. • Getting a word wrong no longer marks it as learned. • Fixed a present perfect exercise that showed its own answer inside the question. • The app now stays in its light theme instead of turning parts of the interface unreadable in system dark mode. Thanks for learning with us. Keep listening.
App privacy
The developer, John Doan, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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