This was such a helpful video! I have always struggled with Phonetics, but this has been so informative, and easy to follow. I definitely don't think it is for everyone - like you said - but this information has assisted me in finishing my assignment! FANTASTIC video all 'round :)
I hope it will help me finish mine.Im studying Italian in University and IPA is part of my course.It may be helpful to some people , in my case however, it is proving to be an utter waste of time
A very useful tool for learning IPA that helps a lot with relation to different accents is the word reference both the site and application for free use.
Hi, teachers! I love this video, really informative. I'd seen IPA in my dictionaries ,but I didn't know how to use them or pronounce them. Finally, this video has solved my problems. Thank you!
Great lesson, I enjoyed it a lot. I now understand that learning IPA is not a hard nut to crack. In fact, it is fun. Thanks a bunch. I love this channel and your method of teaching.
Thanks for the very useful video. For me, IPA is critical to learn. Because as a non-native speaker to English, it's hard to read English books without learning IPA. Too many new and high level words I encounter every time I read an English book. Thanks ❤🌹
Thank you for your efforts. I learned IPA in first English lesson and it helped me a lot so I highly recommend this Especially for students who study on their own
Excellent video. I've included your video on our 180-Hour Higher Certificate in TESOL course for suggested videos in our Teaching Pronunciation unit. Keep up the great work!
Gina and Daniel, thank you very much for your video. I began learning IPA when I was a beginner of learning English. It helped me to avoid many pronunciation mistakes because I learned by heart English vocabulary by using IPA. So I recommend your video for everybody who makes his/her first steps in learning English. I wish you all the best and good luck in your efforts to help other people to learn English!
Whenever I miss Sherlock Holmes I'm opening this chanel and find a video that Teacher Daniel in it. Him pronunciation is just so British and amazing for learners like me, I think.
Back in 1990’s when I was a pupil in a Russian school we used to divide each page into 3 columns named “word/transcription/translation” & write down the word itself, then it’s symbols & finally the Russian translation. I have never learned any reading rules, coz it was so natural to remember the words by symbols. I’ve never heard the term IPA before this video.
Hi. I'm Shammi from Sri Lanka. I'm a university student reading for BA in English. This video was luckily found while I was studying IPA for my 1st year-end exam which will be held on coming Sunday. This video was not only interesting but also very helpful for me. Thank you very much. I would be very grateful to you if you can suggest to me how to improve my vocabulary and accent. Are there free online classes for outsiders like me?
Hi there. We're so glad you found the lesson helpful. We have a few other lessons which you might enjoy on those topics: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/vocabulary-notebook, www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/learn-english-vocabulary, www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/speak-english-fluently, www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/linking-pronunciation.
Using wiktionary and IPA, I've enriched my pronunciation with words and sounds no British person ever heard. I'm still not sure whether it's a good thing, but IPA is definitely a great invention. Thanks for the video!
I'm already a native English speaker, but from the U.S. Normally I speak in a "neutral" accent, but it was funny reading out the words and suddenly, effortlessly sounding British.
Oh! Thank you very much! I'm South Korean! Now, I like this video and Oxford Online English channel. I did want to find some pronuciation teaching video on English origin. I found it! Thank you soo much. But I am a child of English. hahaha. I didn't understand all contant of this video. But I understand a partial of this video, on 07:15. haha I'll repeat watchin this video and have all understand this video. Have a nice dayyyy! I feel your explanation is kind and detailed.
I think illustrating or noticing place of the 44 sounds from where they actually start to sound in our voice making organs like throat/chest/tongue/lip/teeth/nose etc & where they end, this graphical presentation of pronouncing sound will be more easier & effective.
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I'm trying to learn ipa to learn other languages and conlang. I struggled with some of the vowels and dipthongs, need to study it more but also I don't pronounce some of them the same way with my mixed New Zealand/South Australian/Southern British accent. I wouldn't know how to write the way I pronounce things in ipa from this video. Also noticed the lady didn't turn the r in floor into a shwa like Southern British but said it in her own native pronunciation with a hard r
It would be helpful pedagogically if polysyllabic words were syllabified. For example, in the lesson, is given the IPA transcription /'tiːtʃə/, which does not tell us that the pronunciation is unique, unless one learns to syllabify it. As a matter of fact, roughly half of British people pronounce /'tiːtʃə/ as ['tiː tʃə] (meaning that one pronounces ['ti:] first, followed by [tʃə]). The other half pronounce /'tiːtʃə/ as ['tiːt° °tʃə] (meaning that the 1st syllable is ['tiːt°], the 2nd syllable is [°tʃə]. The intervocalic /tʃ/ is rendered ambi-syllabic, in that [t° stands for the compression stage in the articulation of the /t/ in the affricate /tʃ/, and °t] the hold and release stage of the /t/ in /tʃ/).
