How to Pronounce Any Word

I remember my students first reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and painfully stumbling over the Nigerian names and words. Sure, I helped them pronounce the words I knew or allowed them to make their best guess using phonics, but it still sometimes left them frustrated.

If you, too, are teaching a novel with foreign words, introduce your students to Forvo, a site that pronounces words in nearly any language in the world. Just type any word in the search engine and turn up your speakers to hear the correct way to pronounce it.