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Pronunciator: Language Learning Online

Overview of language learning available from Pronunciator through the State Library.

Language Options

Pronunciator is designed to provide a more personalized form of language learning, starting with the language pairs you choose for your learning. For these pairs, there's both a home language and a learning language:

  • Home language is the language you already speak, or your known language. It's used for translations, interface directions and menus, audio lessons, and often narrators and virtual coaches. You can also create personalized courses from most home languages.
  • Learning language is the focus or target of your language learning. Each learning language has an average of 10,000 instructional phrases.

Home Languages

There are 144 languages available to set as home languages:

Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Arabic (Algerian)
Arabic (Egyptian)
Arabic (Gulf)
Arabic (Levantine)
Arabic (Moroccan)
Arabic (Tunisian)
Armenian
Assamese
Awadhi
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bhojpuri
Bodo
Braj Bhasha
Bulgarian
Bundeli
Burmese
Catalan
Cebuano
Chhattisgarhi
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dogri
Dutch
English (American)
English (Australian)
English (British)
English (Canadian)
English (India)
English (Irish)
English (New Zealand)
English (Scottish)
Estonian
Finnish
Flemish
French
French (Canadian)
Frisian
Galician
Garo
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Haryanvi
Hausa
Hebrew
Himachili
Hindi
Hinglish
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khasi
Khmer
Kodava
Konkani
Korean
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Magahi
Maithili
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Malvi
Marathi
Marwari
Mewati
Mizo
Mongolian
Nagamese
Nepali
Northern Sotho
Norwegian
Oriya
Oromo
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese (Portugal)
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Sanskrit
Santali
Saraiki
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Shona
Sicilian
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovene
Somali
Southern Sotho
Spanish (Latin America)*
Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish (Spain)
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tigrinya
Tulu
Turkish
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Welsh
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu

*Spanish (Latin America) is based on the form of Spanish spoken in Colombia.

Learning Languages

There are 164 languages available to learn:

Afrikaans
Albanian
American Sign Language
Amharic
Angika
Arabic (Algerian)
Arabic (Egyptian)
Arabic (Gulf)
Arabic (Levantine)
Arabic (Moroccan)
Arabic (MSA)
Arabic (Tunisian)
Armenian
Assamese
Awadhi
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bhojpuri
Bodo
Braj Bhasha
Bulgarian
Bundeli
Burmese
Catalan
Cebuano
Chhattisgarhi
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Pinyin)
Chinese (Xiang)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Dogri
Dutch
English (American)
English (Australian)
English (British)
English (Canadian)
English (India)
English (Irish)
English (New Zealand)
English (Scottish)
Estonian
Faroese
Finnish
Flemish
French (Canada)
French (France)
French (India)
Frisian
Galician
Garhwali
Garo
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Haryanvi
Hausa
Hebrew
Hiligaynon
Himachali
Hindi
Hinglish
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Japanese (Romaji)
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khasi
Khmer
Kodava
Konkani
Korean
Kumaoni
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Magahi
Maithili
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Malvi
Marathi
Marwari
Meitei
Mewati
Mexican Sign Language
Mizo
Mongolian
Nagamese
Nepali
Northern Sotho
Norwegian
Oriya
Oromo
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Provençal
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Sambalpuri
Sanskrit
Santali
Saraiki
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Shona
Sicilian
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovene
Somali
Southern Sotho
Spanish (Latin America)*
Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish (Spain)
Swahili
Swedish
Sylheti
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya
Tulu
Turkish
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu

†The American Sign Language speaker is from Southern California but focused on a standard American ASL.

♦The Mexican Sign Language speaker is from Guadalajara.

*Spanish (Latin America) is based on the form of Spanish spoken in Colombia.