American English Pronunciation Patterns Professional 4.2 (Based on Phonics) : Perfect English Pronunciation Software to Help You Improve Pronunciation, Speaking, Vocabulary, Spelling, Listening, and Reading, and Reduce Accent.

by xCers Corp

Product Features

• All the features in the professional 3.0 version plus the following features
• Integrated web browser with many advanced features to help you improve your listening and speaking
• International Phonetic Transcripts (IPA) and American Phonetic Transcripts (APA) for all 4,000 words
• Integrated video player to help you improve listening when you watch movies or MTVs
• 1 year membership to access many online contents such as online lessons, patterns tutorial, etc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• ASIN: B000PKMFQ2
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 21, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,972 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #46 in Software > Education & Reference > Secondary Education > English & Grammar

Product Description

No Longer Available. Please refer to Pronunciation Pattern Network Edition 6.0. Free Trial at Pronunciation Patterns Site.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hard to believe, November 24, 2008

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Jaaboston "jaaboston" (Des Moines, Iowa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American English Pronunciation Patterns Professional 4.2 (Based on Phonics) : Perfect English Pronunciation Software to Help You Improve Pronunciation, Speaking, Vocabulary, Spelling, Listening, and Reading, and Reduce Accent. (CD-ROM)

Sorry guys, but I have been using the demo and it is hard to believe most of the reviews I am reading here. Clearly, they were not written by ESL students and they seem very professional and with a lot of info about the software (looks like written by the developers). I find the inter phase to be crowded and difficult to follow. This software is not intuitive at all and it is hard to follow any logical sequence of learning. Anyway, download the demo and try for yourself.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good product, June 24, 2007

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Viet - See all my reviews

This review is from: American English Pronunciation Patterns Professional 4.2 (Based on Phonics) : Perfect English Pronunciation Software to Help You Improve Pronunciation, Speaking, Vocabulary, Spelling, Listening, and Reading, and Reduce Accent. (CD-ROM)

I'm Vietnamese student. Pronunciation Patterns is very good one as follows:
1/ Clearly sound and easy to repeat.
2/ There are thousands of new words to learn.
3/ program is very good at automaticly repeating, recording and replaying
4/ Customer service is very kindness and willingness.Excellent!

Some points that the author needs to improve:

1/ Some words do not match with the sounds
2/ Lack of some dipthong souds
3/ Diagram is not very perfect. It means that it's very difficult to realize what s student need to improve after recording his or her voice.
4/ In CD, the authour should only use the words that you already set up in your program. I saw some words in the screen, but in fact they are not in the program so it makes customer unsatisfied.
5/ I do not like to use CD to much, because it may harm CD driver; Why don't you think about the way to copy it into only one computer and open it without CD?
6/The price is too high for a student.

Anyway, it is 4/5
Hope you enjoy it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pronunciation Patterns is a great spoken english self-taught material., December 25, 2007

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Hao L "Hao" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American English Pronunciation Patterns Professional 4.2 (Based on Phonics) : Perfect English Pronunciation Software to Help You Improve Pronunciation, Speaking, Vocabulary, Spelling, Listening, and Reading, and Reduce Accent. (CD-ROM)

I got the PP weeks ago and have been using it since then. I just love it because of a lot of reasons:

1. Systemmatically teach me the American Phonetic Alphabet that I missed when I started to study English. It helps me correct many pronunciation errors;
2. The more practice by following the sound of each word, the more confident and comfortable to communicate with people in English;
3. It is a effective and convenient approach to study, especially I have to work in the day time;
4. It is not boring at all, actually it is fun;
5. Quick and satisfactory supports from the company;
6. I wish I could find the material years ago;

I think the only drawback is that I have to insert the CD to play even if I install it to my computer.