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Objectives of this session

At the end of this session you will know what are

  1. the International Phonetic Association (IPA),
  2. the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA),
  3. the consonant chart and kinds of consonant,
  4. the vowel quadrilateral and kinds of vowel,
  5. phonetic symbols,

and you will know how to

  1. pronounce sounds you never thought possible to pronounce,
  2. read these from a text written in phonetic symbols,
  3. transcribe these using phonetic symbols.


Dafydd Gibbon, Mon Jul 21 10:30:46 MEST 2003 Automatically generated, links may change - update every session.