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Phonetics
1. Phonemes of English Here is a chart with the phonetic alphabet for English. You can also listen to American and British vowels on Ladefoged's site, Ladefoged being a grand old man of phonetics. For consonants, you need to know about place and manner of articulation, and voicing. Some practice. 2. Phoneme problems for French learners VOWELS diphthongs and long vowels back vowels: called versus cold, come high front tense and lax vowels: sit versus seat CONSONANTS 'th' : producing consistently in fluent speech, not producing too early or late R : French versus Brit/US church and judge 3. Intonation stressed and unstressed syllables Links Why you should know phonetic transcription. English-English dictionary with phonetic transcriptions.
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