International Phonetic Alphabet - IPA | English Pronunciation

[@BillieEnglish]

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[@abdullahnoori444]

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[@SerhiiK]

Amazing explanation! Thank you so much!

[@darkengine5931]

There's something I'm confused about if I may ask. Does English IPA very accurately capture the pronunciation of words? It doesn't seem to do so to me at the nuanced level. Example: /bid/ [bead] vs. /bit/ [beat] The /i/ vowel sound doesn't seem the same between the two, as "bead" seems to have a slightly more elongated vowel than "beat", like "b-eee-d" vs. "b-ee-t" when spoken by human speakers. Yet I can't see how that's captured in the IPA pronunciation, unless we're to consider the pronunciation of each individual vowel sound as potentially varying based on the consonants around it.

[@Thayhatz]

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[@ramamonato5039]

This is the sound system of the so-called 'Received Pronunciation' or RP, for short. It is the standard pronunciation and popularized by Daniel Jones in the early of 20th Century. In Dutch, we had 'Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands' (ABN). In German, we had 'die deutsche Bühnenaussprache', standardized by Theodor Siebs in 1898.

[@BillieEnglish]

Not quite, we can use the IPA symbols to transcribe anything someone says. So that could be someone speaking in received pronunciation (RP) but also someone with general American pronunciation (GA) or even someone with a regional accent. For example, the word 'paper' in RP is /peɪ.pər/, in GA /ˈpeɪ.pɚ/ but someone from the north of England, e.g. Bolton might say /ˈpe.pər/, with just a single vowel sound in the first syllable and not a diphthong. All three transcription make use of the sound symbols from the IPA but they show different pronunciations. I hope this helps!

[@ramamonato5039]

@@BillieEnglish Oops...I mean the phonetic transcription which you let us see in the thumbnail of this video. It says: wɒt s ðə aɪ piː eɪ ? (well, /ðiː aɪ piː eɪ/ to be correct). What we see in that thumbnail is the written form of a question spoken in RP English.

[@Katiethatgirl1993]

Billie, thank you so much for this super useful video. Could you please make a video comparing RP and GA IPA? I have trouble mixing British and American English and I think lots of English students feel the same. Or maybe you could recommend some resourses to help with this issue. Thank you so much. Your channel is AWESOME!!! 🥰🥰🥰

[@BillieEnglish]

Great suggestion! Yes, I think this would be really useful for everyone who watches my videos!

[@samaunahmedsam3973]

Hello billie! Really you are an amazing teacher. No doubt your teaching power is so sophisticated. But now I'm suffering to understand "Semantics". Would you mind to help us by giving your helpful vedios? Or any suggestions for us to understand?

[@BillieEnglish]

Thank you for the nice comment! 😊 As for semantics, this is a very interesting topic but also a really big one! Do you have specific questions or areas you find difficult?

[@ramkrishnabehura6146]

Great maam....plz make video on articulation of consonants

[@dinopetropoulos9637]

Hello again. I still don't quite get the difference bw phonetic and phonemic. The phonemic chart is made up of the same symbols as the phonetic alphabet. So why use two different words? Thank you.

[@duncanmacmillan2036]

Would you be interested in adding Spanish/Catalan subtitles to this video? I could help

[@BillieEnglish]

Thank you for the offer! I'm not adding subtitles because my viewership is really international, and they speak many different languages. But it's very kind to offer help!

[@abdullahnoori444]

Thank you

[@jacksonamaral329]

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[@haripurushothaman1310]

Dear mam, would you do a video on poetic meter. Especially one regarding how to understand exactly when a monosyllabic word is stressed or unstressed in a verse.

[@BillieEnglish]

Thank you for the suggestion! I will consider that!

[@haripurushothaman1310]

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[@AndrzejLondyn]

Does aspiration accur in all English accents?

[@SalmanAhmad-eb3ks]

Thank you,mam.

[@BillieEnglish]

Most welcome 😊

[@rajakumarivesapogu4840]

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[@marekkendziora1917]

Are you German? Where are you from? You sound German.

[@receivedpronunciation6696]

[fiːˈlaɪçt ˈkɔmt ziː aʊs ˈdɔʏtʃlant ‖]

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[@ramamonato5039]

IPA is not only for English. It can be used for German: [ɪç ˈhaɪsə ˈrama. ɪç ˈkɔmə aʊs ɪndoˈneːzɪən. ɪç ˈvoːnə ɪn dʒaˈkarta. ɪç ˈliːbə foˈneːtɪk. ɪç mɑːk ˈdɔʏtʃ. ɪç ˈfɪndə diː ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʃprɑːxə diː ˈʃøːnstə ˈʃprɑːxə deːr ˈvɛlt ‖]

[@BillieEnglish]

Haha - thank you for your german comment in IPA! Wow, you really love German the most! Meine Muttersprache ist Deutsch :-)

[@ramamonato5039]

@@BillieEnglish Yes, Hochdeutsch (German) and Niederdeutsch (Dutch-Low German) are very beautiful. When I was a senior-high student in 1991-1993, I loved to learn (High) German at school and always got the highest scores and no Eurasian students could compete with me. At the same time, I learnt Dutch by myself as I thought it was a kind of German dialect.

[@ramamonato5039]

@@BillieEnglish I know you are a German-speaking teacher of English. My observant ears can catch a foreign accent in your speaking English.