Master the Sounds of English with the International Phonetic Alphabet Chart


The International Phonetic Alphabet chart uses symbols to represent human speech sounds. It's beneficial for linguists, teachers, and students to improve pronunciation and understand how words are spoken. What's cool about it is that it carefully organises vowels, diphthongs, and consonants including plosives, fricatives, affricates, nasals, and approximants. Each symbol comes with an example word and its phonetic transcription. Check out Aussies English With Amanda for more information!

 

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