IPA Chart Course - 38 Lessons
A complete course to help you learn, remember, and use the 44 sounds and symbols of the British English IPA chart. Whether you are a student or a teacher, you will find this course invaluable. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) provides us with a means of identifying the 44 sounds of British English and thus overcoming the problems of English pronunciation in which the same letters or combinations of letters can have different pronunciations in different words.
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IPA Symbols Lesson
I asked the OpenAI ChatGPT: "How useful are the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols for improving pronunciation for learners of English?" What it said I put in a video which you will find in this British English lesson. Watch the video and then do the self-test exercises to help you learn, remember, and use the 44 British English IPA symbols. Then you can put your skills to the test in the challenge.
Vowel in Food / uː /
Activate the Vowel in Food / uː / with this English Pronunciation Activation Pack. In this Pronunciation Activation Pack we will be looking at the fourth of the pure vowels / uː /. We will look at the letter combinations that give the / uː / sound. We will look at lots of words which have the / uː / sound in them. Finally, we will activate your ability to hear and produce the / uː / sound correctly. Letter Combinations for / uː / The long pure vowel sound / uː / can be formed by these letter combinations: U, OO, O, OU, EW, UE, UI, and OW. A minimal pair is a pair of words which ar...
/ w / in Wasp and / j / in Yellow
Activate the consonant semivowel sounds / w / in Wasp and / j / in Yellow. In this Pronunciation Activation Pack we will be looking at the consonant sounds / w / and / j /. We will look at the letter combinations that give the / w / and / j / sounds. We will look at lots of words which have the / w / and / j / sounds in them. Finally, we will activate your ability to hear and produce the / w / and / j / sounds correctly. The / w / and / j / sounds are semivowels or glides which are a type of approximant. The semivowels have characteristics of both consonants and vowels in different words...
/ l / in Lamb and / r / in Ram
Activate the consonant approximant sounds / l / in Lamb and / r / in Ram. In this Pronunciation Activation Pack we will be looking at the consonant sounds / l / and / r /. We will look at the letter combinations that give the / l / and / r / sounds. We will look at lots of words which have the / l / and / r / sounds in them. Finally, we will activate your ability to hear and produce the / l / and / r / sounds correctly. The / l / and / r / sounds are approximants which come somewhere between the vowels and fricatives in the amount of turbulence they cause to the airflow. The / l / and th...
/ h / in Hat
Activate the consonant sound / h / in Hat. In this Pronunciation Activation Pack we will be looking at the unvoiced glottal fricative consonant sound / h /. We will look at the letter combinations that give the / h / sound. We will look at lots of words which have the / h / sound in them. Finally, we will activate your ability to hear and produce the / h / sound correctly. The / h / sound is a glottal fricative. It is basically just an exhalation of breath, the smoothness of which is broken by a slight constriction of the throat around the glottis. The / h / sound on the chart is shown i...
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