Saturday 1 December 2012

Phonetic



Phonetic


It would be nice to start this blog with phonetic (sound) issue. It occurs to me that students are usually having difficulty in pronouncing some of the English word in correct pronunciations. Readers can have a look at the chart attached below. 



vowels
IPA
examples
listen
ʌ
cup, luck
ɑ:
arm, father
Amer / Brit
æ
cat, black
e
met, bed
1
ə
away, cinema
2
ɜ:ʳ
turn, learn
Amer / Brit
2
ɪ
hit, sitting
i:
see, heat
ɒ
hot, rock
Amer / Brit
3
ɔ:
call, four
Amer / Brit
4 5
ʊ
put, could
u:
blue, food
five, eye
nowout
sayeight
go, home
6
ɔɪ
boy, join
eəʳ
whereair
Amer / Brit
1 7
ɪəʳ
near, here
Amer / Brit
7
ʊəʳ
pure, tourist
Amer / Brit
7
consonants
IPA
examples
listen
b
bad, lab
d
did, lady
f
find, if
g
give, flag
h
how, hello
j
yes, yellow
k
cat, back
l
leg, little
m
man, lemon
n
no, ten
ŋ
sing, finger
p
pet, map
r
red, try
s
sun, miss
ʃ
she, crash
t
tea, getting
8
check, church
θ
think, both
ð
this, mother
v
voice, five
w
wet, window
z
zoo, lazy
ʒ
pleasure, vision
just, large


Note : Amer = American
         Brit    = British
To hear the correct pronoucation for those words, please click the url below.


Once you click the url, here is the process on how to listen to the correct pronouncation for each word given.

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Should there be any question, please do not hesitate to drop the issue on the comment part. We will try to answer with the best solution. Thank you dear students. 



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