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Podcast: Wadjasay? American English Pronunciation Practice
Episode: IPA lesson 1
Description: Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks!The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a tool used by linguists to help record the sounds of a language. It is also useful for people learning a foreign language. And it is particularly helpful to students of English, because the English spelling system is terrible. For example, we pronounce these two words the same:Red (the color)Read (the past tense of the verb to read, as in “Yesterday I read a book.”But we spell them differently. Usin...