Forvo is service dedicated to learn and teach the pronunciations in several languages (204 languages as of now). This community based service takes the pronunciation right from the native users which is contributed by members and then verified around the globe.  In case if the members don’t find the pronunciation right, they are free to add their own recording.

Forvo has very simple and easy to use interface, whenever you want to know / learn a pronunciation, simply go to Forvo and search by typing the word in the search box. Once you find a word , click on the play button right beside it to hear.

Listen the pronunciations in forvo

In case the word you are searching is not availble, you are free to add this word. The word is added to your track list so that you can see later if somebody had added pronunciation for this.

However in order to ask for its pronunciation, you can ask for the pronunciation anonymously without signing in to your account, but is that case you will not be able to track the pronunciation.

Adding a word in Forvo

The Pronounce tab on the page, allows you to access several words from random or specific languages for which the pronunciation is still pending, if you know the correct pronunciation you can add it by recording.

My experience with Forvo

I tested Forvo for several words in different languages, and it works pretty fine, definitely a very useful tool for people working in languages other than their mother tongue, or trying to learn a new language.

I think, as the service is user based, and native speakers can add their contribution to make it a better place, it would be a good idea to add the meanings too for words from different languages. This will make Forvo more powerful, moreover allowing to add the meanings too wont take much of efforts on the developer side. What say?

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