Since my tutor mentioned my poor pronunciation I have been looking into sources of help and assistance. Clearly the tutorials are the main OU resources, but they are so badly attended and I find Elluminate difficult. I have been investigating other options.
One source is the IPA, those funny little letters in the dictionary that most people ignore. These are two easily similar words :
schön [ʃø:n] Adj. - beautiful
schon [ʃo:n] Adv. - already.
Another route is to find where these words are spoken, digitally on the web. The DWDS (deh vey deh es) site often has a button that speaks the word being looked up, but that is difficult to download being Flash based. It can be recorded via Audacity and then downloaded but what a fuss.
One site specialising in pronounciation is www.forvo.com . You can register and download an MP3 file recorded by native speakers. They even show you a map of where the speaker comes from. The site is prone to being down sadly, but when it works it really works.
I use a combination of these two adding them to my ANKI flashcards. DWDS uses the article which Forvo does not.
Dave
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