How to use: Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary

app

Pronunciation and Spelling by Color

Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary

provides a bridge from

tospelling pronunciation

and from listening back to spelling

The Bridge is a Simple Color AssociationA happy accident is that the 16 vowel soundsof English happen to be found inside the namesof 16 ordinary colors:

Long ‘a’ is in Gray /Ay/Short ‘a’ is in Black /a/Long ‘e’ is in Green /Ey/ Short ‘e’ is in Red /e/ and so on….

The Vowel Sounds Look Like This:

Back to the AppThere are four tabs or buttons: Home, Reference, Dictionary and Contact

This is Home.

That was easy.

Reference1) English Pronunciation

- four Key Principles 2) English Spelling

- spell from listening3) English Phonetic Alphabet - 40 sounds of NA English4) Thompson Vowel Chart

- with audio support

Spend a few Minutes Here

Not clear about the Key Principles? There are dropdown arrows with more info:

The Vowel Chart

Vowel Chart is at the bottomof the Reference page

Audio of each sound

Pronunciation Dictionary The moment we have allbeen waiting for:

PronunciationEnter a word you can spell but not say in:

* The Dictionary has an alphabetical list of the2,000 most common words in English.

How do you say Suit for Example? I typed in suit because spelling is crazy and learners have a lot of trouble with suit.

Two good guesses came upsuit and suiteI want the clothing oneso I click on the top entry.

SuitThe screen explains itself.

EPA is the English Phonetic Alphabet (see Reference page)

EPA Suit is a Blue word Suit is a Blue word

Synonyms are here too

Suite

Just for fun let’s back up and click on suite

Suite is a Green word

And it has a ‘homonym’(whatever) - sweet

Pronunciation RecapTo find the pronunciation of a word that you can spell but not say,

Go to the Dictionary buttonType the word you want to say in Search a WordClick on the word for its Color/Pronunciation

The app contains the pronunciation of the 2,000 most common words in English, categorized by color dictated by the main vowel sound.

[Spend a few minutes learning vowel sounds by color from the Vowel Chart in Reference]

WARNING: Don’t start word entries with capital letters

Spelling Dictionary

The Color button in the top left corner takes youfrom listening to spelling.

SpellingListen to the vowel sound in the main syllable of the word you want to spell.What color is that vowel?Click on that color the word is alphabetical in its color chapter.

For fun let’s pretend we can’tspell ‘alert’. It sounds like /a lErt/. It’s Purple.

How do you Spell /a lert/…?Scroll down Color List to Purple and Click.

There it is! Words are grouped alphabetically by color or main vowel sound. It’s a SOUND DICTIONARY.

Sound Dictionary RecapTo find the PRONUNCIATION of a word you know

how to spell, enter it in

To find the SPELLING of a word you have heard, determine the Color of the main vowel soundand find the word listed alphabetically in itsColor chapter.

Hint: Your word has to be one of the 16 colors from theVowel Chart in Reference – there are no exceptions.

Back and ForthTo get back to the Dictionary main page from anywhere click Cancel or ALL at the top of the Color List.

If the word you want is not in Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary, click Add a the top right.

You’ll get the word in an update.

Contact

The last tab or button is Contact.

You can reach me any number of ways for more infoon our products, questions or comments.

Enjoy the App!

Sound Dictionary Products

Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary is available for $1.99

For Apple and Android products from iTunes and Google Play

The app is the beloved child of Grass is Black the original Sound Dictionary

which includes definitions and expressions. Hard copies of Grass is Black - $39.95 from Amazon.com

http://amzn.to/1tFZ82o PDF of Grass is Black - $14.95 from the E-Store

www.thompsonlanguagecenter.com

Have a great day!