Improve your accent: Introduction to the IPA and vowel sound training

Learn the English vowels: I will teach you four phonemes from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). You will learn /e/ as in pet, schwa /ə/ as in to (unstressed), /ɜː/ as in bird, and /ɔː/ as in court. This lesson is for beginners who are unfamiliar with IPA (the individual sounds of English). Learn the IPA vowel symbols to greatly improve your pronunciation. This lesson is also for more advanced students who are already familiar with the sounds of English and their IPA phonetic symbols, and who wish to refresh their knowledge as a result of doing some practical pronunciation practice. Do these exercises for some time and you WILL hear a difference. Join my Clear Accent course to improve your accent step-by-step.

Hi Jane
Thank you for your lesson.
As you said, if we learn the sounds we can not only speak clearly but also understand people easily. Learning the sounds is important for the improvement of speaking and accent. If we learn the sounds at the beginning of the learning English journey, don’t you think it could help in learning new words if you already know all the English sounds?
Based on that, why do you think English teachers, schools and books do not go deep teaching the sounds for basic/elementary English students and do it for advanced students which makes hard to relearn sounds that we have been saying for a long time incorrectly.
Regards,
Thiago

LEARNER

Learning bit by bit or step by step this new and a little complicated topic of IPA, it isn’t easy if you don’t listen to the English sounds frequently but we can improve it. Thanks a lot teacher Jade.