Community reviews for Forvo

This site is probably best used in a foreign language classroom, and the best thing it has going for it is that it is free. From an anthropological perspective, listening to various pronunciations of the same word is interesting, but what would be even more intriguing is if the region of the speaker's home country was included. As it stands currently, only the speaker's sex and nationality are included. The large ads on the site are distracting to students, and the quality of the recordings varies dramatically as well. Generally, students find this website interesting, but from a teacher's perspective, there is limited educational value.