What is Phonetics

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Have you ever wondered ‘what is phonetics’? Have you ever wished that you knew how to pronounce the English phonetic alphabet more clearly and confidently? Well, in this video, these are exactly the things that I’m going to help you to do.

So phonetics is essentially the study and classification of speech sounds. And we have something call the international phonetic alphabet chart, which is an internationally recognised set of phonetic symbols, that was developed in the late 19th Century. And we use them to be very specific about the pronunciation of a word in which ever language we’re working on.

And some people find them to be the most accurate and the most reliable way to work on their pronunciation because you can go to a good dictionary like the Oxford dictionary or the Cambridge dictionary (which are both online) and you can see the phonetic symbols and it’ll tell you how to pronounce that part of that word. So they’re a really great resource.

And what I thought might be useful, even though the internet is filled with videos about this sort of stuff, is just to sort of contain it all in one video and give you those phonetic symbols and make the sounds so that you can practice and get more confident with them and then you can go to a dictionary and if you see that symbol you know which sound to use. So, here they are.

So we’re going to look at the consonant sounds. And when we’re talking about sounds in isolation they’re sometimes referred to as phonemes. So here are the phonemes for each of the consonant sounds in standard British English.

m as in MUM
n as in NONE
ŋ as in SONG
f as in FOR
v as in VINE
s as in SAD
z as in ZEAL
ʃ as in SHOE
ʒ as in MEASURE
θ as in THING
ð as in THIS
t as in TOO
d as in DO
k as in KING
g as in GO
p as in PUT
b as in BUT
w as in WAR
j as in YOUNG
r as in RED
dʒ as in JAM, JUDGE
tʃ as in CHEW
h as in HOW
l as in LEE
ɫ as in FEEL

Here are the vowels:

ɪ as in KIT
e as in DRESS
ʌ as in STRUT
ʊ as in FOOT
æ as in TRAP
ɒ as in LOT
ə as in The Schwa
Uː as in GOOSE
ɔː THOUGHT
ɜː as in NURSE
ɑː as in BATH
iː as in FLEECE
eɪ as in FACE
ɑɪ as in PRICE
ɔɪ as in CHOICE
əʊ as in GOAT
aʊ as in MOUTH
ɪə as in NEAR
eə as in SQUARE
ʊə as in CURE
eɪə as in LAYER
aɪə as in LIAR
ɔɪə as in LAWYER
əʊə as in LOWER
aʊə as in HOUR

So if you want to learn more about vowel and consonant pronunciation in British English then click here and download to free resources that I’ve created that get to the heart of some of the most vowel and consonant pronunciation in British English.

But if you would like to continue learning more about phonetics and you really want to improve all of those vowel and all of those consonants in terms of your English pronunciation, then why don’t you click here and have a look at a published eBook that was released last year that I wrote that contains absolutely all of these vowels and all of these consonants along with the phonetic transcription And it covers absolutely everything you need to know, with pictures and diagrams, it’s got 12hrs of audio, it takes you through all of the typical habits and mistakes that people make, and it’s got a huge section on intonation as well. So with the aid of that book you’ll really get your pronunciation and intonation improving and you’ll feel much more confident and much more fluent in terms of your speech in English. So click here and have a look at that know.

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