Phonemic Chart

Hello class!

The International Phonemic Alphabet (IPA) helps by providing a way to write words as they are pronounced. The normal alphabet only has 26 characters but there are 44 different sounds that are used to pronounce words. As well as that, most words in English originate from other languages like Greek, Latin and French, to name just a few and in many cases the the language of origin influences how the word is pronounced.

The IPA provides a symbol (phoneme) for each sound so the correct pronunciation can be written or printed in dictionaries.

This video helps language learners to hear the correct pronunciation and also to know how to produce the sound of each phoneme.

Please watch this interesting video that explains the phonemic chart and classifies sounds in a very useful way.

After watching, please answer the following:

1. Name at least 7 sounds that you are certain to know how to pronounce and how to write its corresponding phoneme. (If you do not have seven, that is more than o.k., just write the ones you know.)
2. Name at least 7 sounds that you neither know how to pronounce nor how to write its corresponding phoneme. 
3. Explain in no less than 150 words how this will be useful for your teaching and how you are planning to use it.

Please watch the whole video, take the time to write good and complete answers, and double check them before submitting them.

Deadline: Tuesday, June 26th, at 11:59pm.

English Phonemes

Hello class!

As you can see on Table 8, there are nearly 40 phonemes of English, while there are only 26 letters in the alphabet.

Please use the chart of phonemes as a reference and write a comment with two famous English quotes about any topic into phonemic transcription.

Then, wait for other classmates to post their own phonemic transcriptions and choose one to try to read and decipher. Write the actual quote as a comment on his or her post.

I will model with a phonemic transcripted quote post and then an example of a comment on someone's transcripted quote.

Please take into consideration that if both your own post and a comment on someone else's post are not made accordingly with the instructions, or your answers display more than 15 grammar or spelling mistakes, you will not get the total amount of points. 

Take the time to write your answer well and double check it before submitting it.

Don't forget that quote choices cannot be exactly the same, so you have to be aware to use some that haven't been posted by someone else before.

Deadline: Monday, June 05th, at 11:59pm.