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Audiobook.com; An App Review

Audio books are specially used for the listening purposes. I have heard lots of audio books in my previous semester as I had prose, novels, drama in my literature courses. For saving time, sometimes, I had to hear several audio books though I could not complete all the clips. Hearing audio books has some benefits. For example, improving listening, catching the absolute sound, saving time etc. Living in a modern era has also many benefits like getting everything in apps. So, there is an app of audio books named Audiobooks.com . >>This is an useful app to listen books. >>It has free and paid service for the users. >>Its speakers sound like natives. It has also some inconvenient sides. For example : its users are fed up with irrelevant advertisements and notifications.

Awabe English Pronunciation: An App Review

Awabe English Pronunciation: An App Review Technology has become an indispensable part of study in 21st century. Using technologies to correct pronunciation is a very common matter nowadays. Consequently, there are lots apps available on internet to provide fruitful solutions for the learners. There is a distinguished app, Awabe English Pronunciation , among those which provides very specific lessons on specific topics of pronunciation. It helps to learn with practical tasks like uttering sounds. It has some good features for example, sounds of phonetic symbols, transcriptions of words, phonetic transcription of sentences and quick dictionary to get the meaning of the words. In the meantime, it has some faults like dissimilarities between transcriptions and pronunciations. Sometimes, its transcription is British but pronunciation is American. For example, the word `shot' is transcribed in British sound but sounds in American. Getting notifications frequently is also irrit