International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) | Learn English Pronunciation

Hi everyone.

I'm Lynn.

Thanks for watching my video.

Today, I'm going to be giving you some tips about English pronunciation.

We're going to be talking about the importance of the phonetic alphabet and why you should

know it.

So keep watching.

Many of my students want to improve their English pronunciation.

And I always tell them if you're really serious about improving English,

pronunciation you have to learn the phonetic alphabet.

Once you learn the phonetic alphabet, you will know every vowel and consonant sound

in English.

And you won't even need a native speaker teacher to tell you how to pronounce a certain word

because you'll already know when you see the word and you know the phonetic alphabet you'll

know exactly how to pronounce it.

And this will help you improve your English pronunciation a lot.

A lot of my students are kind of hesitant to learn the phonetic alphabet.

Maybe they think they have to be better at English first or there's a lot of reasons,

But I always tell them no learn the phonetic alphabet right away as soon as you can.

It's going to really help you a lot

especially if you're serious about improving your English pronunciation.

This is an essential tool, so go ahead and start learning it right now.

Let's take a look at an example.

How do you think you pronounce this word?

A lot of my students they would say this word is pronounced 'corpse'.

Makes sense, but no.

Actually there are some silent letters in this word.

This word is probably very difficult, but if you know the phonetic alphabet, you already

know that this word is pronounced 'cor'.

So you can see just from this example how important it is to learn the phonetic alphabet.

I'm gonna put some links below to help you

learn more about the phonetic alphabet

and be on your way to improving your English pronunciation.

So study hard.

See you next time.

Thanks for watching.

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