Fun with Phonetics!

Check out the University of Iowa's website on Phonetics at http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/.  It is an interactive website where you can click on the different sounds of American English, Spanish, and German and see how the sound is produced.  It is a great tool for explaining to students the differences between consonants and vowels and for studying the place and manner of articulation.  I model for my students how the website works and then they use their headphones and laptops to do more exploring.