Welcome back to the 2015-16 school year!

Welcome back to the 2015-16 school year! To all of our students old and new: all of us at AJ Tutoring are so excited to be back for another school year! Now that school has been in session in the Bay Area for a few weeks, were looking forward to helping you with your academic coursework and tests this year.As always, AJ Tutoring offers academic tutoring in almost every academic subject. If that tough pre-calculus class is giving you trouble already, give us a call! Our academic tutoring students typically meet with their tutors once per week for a 1.5-hour session. During each session, we make sure that youre fully prepared for any upcoming tests, quizzes and essays, get you up to speed on the most challenging concepts in your class, and pre-teach upcoming material so youre never hearing anything from your teacher for the first time. Take a look around our website for more information on AJ Tutorings academic tutoring program!We also offer efficient, effective, high-quality test preparation for your upcoming standardized te sts, including the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and SAT subject tests. 2015-2016 is a challenging year for test-taking since the SAT is changing in March 2016, juniors need to make more decisions about which tests to take (current SAT? new SAT? the ACT?). Please reach out to us if you have questions about the ideal test-taking plan we would love to talk through your options for the upcoming school year!Best wishes from AJ Tutoring for a great start to the year!

Top 5 Online English Pronunciation Resources

Top 5 Online English Pronunciation Resources If youre not living in a country that speaks English, learning to properly pronounce English can be difficult. Like all languages, English contains some sounds that may not exist at all in your language. Not only will you have to learn to pronounce these sounds, but youll have to learn to hear them as well.Below are my 5 favorite online English pronunciation resources that will help you with anatomical demonstrations, audio and much more. We also recommend taking classes with our native English speaking teachers. Click here to register for a free trial class.5. The Poetry Foundation is one of my favorite things to show my students for general English learning, and for pronunciation practice. I like to use poems in my classes to help my students learn English pronunciation because great poems have a focus on the sound of the English language. But the Poetry Foundations website also offers free mp3s of many of the poems being read by the authors. Heres one of my favorites, by Robert Fr ost.4. ManyThings.org offers great practice using minimal pairs. This is a pair of words that are almost exactly the same, but differ by one sound. Studying them is a great way for students to learn to distinguish and pronounce sounds that my be difficult for them to separate in a new language. The site offers recordings of the minimal pairs, as well as tests students can take of their ability to distinguish the sounds.3. Rachels English channel on YouTube offers a great series of videos with detailed instructions on American English pronunciation, with explanations of how to move your mouth for particular sounds.2. Here is a great video on YouTube for learning the American English accent ??1. The University of Iowa has a very ambitious project on its website here that allows you to choose specific sounds from the English language, and watch videos of them demonstrated by animations that show what happens inside the mouth when the sounds are formed, video showing an English speakers mouth as she says the words, and audio. Its a great resource for very focused work on your English pronunciation.Thanks! Please let us know if you have any more great resources to add to the list. Mother Hi,let me suggest you a simple chrome extension which helps you while reading english web articles, it is calledHow Do You Sayjust highlighting a word you can hear the correct pronunciation, from my point of view it is perfect to improve pronunciation hope for you too!bye! Ext Heres a video-based pronunciation site to learn how to pronounce English words:http://www.embedplus.com/dictionary/how-to-pronounce-words-and-use-them.aspx LOIEnglish Seems like a very promising tool!