How to remember IPA phoneme symbols: my tricks!

Have you ever tried to read a pronunciation guide and been confused? Do you just skip those guides because you don’t understand the symbols? Memorising the symbols for each of the sounds in English is very difficult and takes time. In this lesson, however, I will teach you a shortcut to help you remember all the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols for the sounds in the English language. Learning these symbols takes time, practice, and patience, but it will greatly improve your overall pronunciation of English. Whether you are a beginner or advanced learner, you will surely find this a useful lesson for your pronunciation skills.

Thank you for this excellent lesson, Jade!
Yeh, english transcription can be extremely confusing. Fortunately nowadays we can hear the correct pronunciation in online dictionaries and shadow it.

Margarethe

Is that a greek lesson? O_o

Lorcy Gabriel

Thanks a bunch, Jade
I’m learning so much from you!
please give us more and more of your lovely lessons

Alaa.kh

Thanks

Seyed Majid Mousavi

Thank you for this video. I always want to know about this.

vicker

wanted

vicker

Thanks

Ibrahim garba19

Thanks Jade,
correct English pronunciation can be extremely complex for a not native. Your excellent explanation of IPA can help a lot

Max75

What a wonderful lesson!

Aliyu2003

Thank you Jade, you are good at drawing.

Terrysam

thnx for the lesson

Mist Skyler

Thanks, teacher!

Mariam100

yey I got a perfect score… thank you so much

keyauino245

1o/1o
thanks a lot, Jade,hugs (Kazakhstan 11 Dec2o21:)
the pronunciation of diphthongs is really difficult for me

Jannyl

Thank you, Jade! It was very interesting and useful lesson.

Dennis7

Thanks, teacher jade.

Mbuta51

Thanks

Yahya alghadhi

Schwa is a sound that is heard after each consonant if it is pronounced independently (schwa follows each independently pronounced consonant). In Bosnian and Slavic languages, this sound is heard when the speaker speaks in a clipped manner and when, for example, he is angry and speaks quickly and in there is a lot of implied threat in such speech.When you hear Putin using a lot of schwa or semi-schwa, you know he’s angry or threatening. Slavic languages do not use schwa under normal conditions.

Meho

Thanks you Jade for this lesson, IS there any rule to convert a word in its phonetic équivalent ?

Hafedh

Dear Ms Jade, I learnt by myself with a good textbook the former IPA when I was a schoolboy.
Some of the outlook of the phoenems chanced meanwhile. None of my teachers in Germany taught the IPA at all. Now my grandchildren have a grandpa who will use your marvellous lesson. I don’t know how to thank you enough!

Arminius

How to remember IPA phoneme symbols: my tricks!

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