Learning English pronunciation
Why should you study English pronunciation? Because pronunciation is the biggest thing that people notice about your English. You should study it even if you think you can already communicate in English.
How to learn English pronunciation? You will need to:
- Learn to pronounce every English sound correctly. The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet are shown in our table. You can listen to recorded examples of each sound.
- Understand phonetic transcription — the system for writing the pronunciation of English words. Phonetic transcription is usually written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- Learn the pronunciation of every English word that you use. You can find phonetic transcriptions of words in good English dictionaries. It might be a good idea to use PerfectPronunciation — Antimoon's English pronunciation software which teaches you the pronunciation of the most frequently used English words with phonetic transcriptions and audio recordings.
What is good English pronunciation? There are three levels of English pronunciation. Your pronunciation is good if it is understandable and pleasant.
We created the ASCII Phonetic Alphabet because the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet are difficult to type on computers. The ASCII Phonetic Alphabet uses only symbols which you can find on your computer's keyboard.
Demonstration of phonetic transcription: Listen to recordings and read the transcriptions.
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