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This lesson explains the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and how it can help with English pronunciation. • I start the lesson by defining the International Phonetic Alphabet and showing why it is so useful. The letters of a word don't help us in knowing how to pronounce it because the same letter can have lots of different sounds in different words. For example, the letter c has a very different sound in the word car compared to the letter c in the word dice . Also the same phonetic sound can be produced by lots of different combinations of letters. • The IPA is a system for representing each phonetic sound with a symbol and we use use these symbols to transcribe the correct pronunciation of a word. In the English language, there are 44 phonetic symbols and sounds made up of vowels (short and long), dipthongs and consonant sounds. In this video, I pronounce all of the 44 sounds (actually called phonemes) and show you the corresponding symbol. On top of these standard 44 sounds, American English has a few other specific sounds which I also pronounce and briefly explain. • Among the consonant sounds, there is a set of 8 pairs of consonants - In each pair, there is a voiceless consonant (example p ) and its equivalent voiced consonant (example b ). Each pair's sound (example both the p and b sound) is produced by exactly the same mouth and tongue position. The only difference is that the voiceless consonant sound (example p ) is produced only by the mouth whereas the voiced consonant sound (example b ) is produced by the vibrations of the vocal cords in the throat. • • I also present some IPA special characters which are used to represent the start and end of a phonetic transcription, the stressed syllable and the start of a new syllable. • • The accent in the video is a British English accent but I do try to pronounce the 3-4 American English sounds with an American accent :) • • • IPA RESOURCES: • Private English lessons speaking practice: http://goo.gl/T7bKHx • Here is the link to the PDF reference file with all the IPA symbols and example words: • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8v1... • Free online dictionary with IPA as seen in the video: http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org • • Here are the playlists of my English lessons: • Grammar lessons: • learn English grammar • Listening exercises: • English listening practice • Vocabulary videos: • learn English vocabulary • • Andrew, • Crown Academy of English • http://www.crownacademyenglish.com • / crownacademyenglish • / crown_english • • Photo credits: • • All The Best Guys! Image courtesy of stockimages | FreeDigitalPhotos.net • Sheep Staring Image courtesy of papaija2008 | FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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