Introduction to Phonetics

English Pronunciation and Speaking

Welcome to English Club Pronunciation for English Carrier, where you'll find lessons and resources on the way we say words in English.

This blog is about speaking and pronunciation with the principal objective is to give to know the different strategies for that you can speak English with a good pronunciation.

Converse with general clarity using pronunciation/stress/ intonation patterns which allow for overall intelligibility.    Give a standard oral presentation which informs and/or persuades the audience. Integrate material from outside sources logically and gracefully into an oral presentation Cite sources according to conventional documentation style, and maintain academic integrity in their work.   

You need to learn to pronounce the 25 consonant sounds, the five vowels with 15 forms of pronunciation. Below shows the following schemes:

The International Phonetic Alphabet 

25 consonants

https://westonruter.github.io/ipa-chart/keyboard/ 

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Plosive	p,b			t,d		ʈɖ	cɟ	k,ɡ	q,ɢ		ʔ
Nasal	m	ɱ		n		ɳ	ɲ	ŋ	ɴ
Trill	ʙ			r					ʀ
Tap or Flap		ⱱ		ɾ		ɽ
Fricative	ɸβ	fv	θð	sz	ʃʒ	ʂʐ	çʝ	xɣ	χʁ	ħʕ	hɦ
Lateral fricative				ɬɮ
Approximant		ʋ		ɹ		ɻ	j	ɰ
Lateral approximant				l		ɭ	ʎ	ʟ

Vowel:

Basic Vowel Symbols

Long and Short English Vowels

The English vowels are A, E, I, O, & U.  Each can be pronounced with different sounds. This page explains when each sound is commonly used.

Short Vowels

 The most common sound for each vowel is its “short” sound:

 ă, pronounced /æ/ as in apple, pan, or mat,

 ĕ, pronounced /ɛ/ as in elephant, pen, or met,

 ĭ, pronounced /ɪ/ as in insect, pin, or mitt,

 ŏ, pronounced /ɒ/ as in octopus, ostrich, upon, or motto,

 and ŭ, pronounced /ʌ/ as in umbrella, pun, or mutt.

Long Vowels

The alphabet sounds (when the vowel “says its name”) are called “long vowels.”

We call them ‘long’ because we hold them longer than the short sounds, but they are completely different sounds-- not a longer version of the same sound.

Long A (ā ), pronounced /eɪ/ as in ate or mate,

Long E (ē ), pronounced /iː/ as in eat or meat (or meet or mete-- all pronounced the same),

Long I (ī), pronounced /aɪ/ as in mite or might,

Long O (ō), pronounced /oʊ/ as in oats, mote or moat, and

Long U (ū), pronounced /juː/ in mute.

Other English Vowel Sounds (Schwa or R-Controlled)

Besides the long and short sounds, there are other vowel sounds.

Any vowel in an unaccented syllable has a neutral or“schwa”/ə/ sound:Examples: the ‘a’ in above, or approve, the ‘e’ in accident, camera or mathematics, the ‘i’ in family or officer, the ‘o’ in freedom or purpose, or the ‘u’ in industry or succeed.

if a vowel is followed by R, it changes in quality, and is neither long nor short. (ER, IR, and UR are often -- though not always--the same sound.)

Examples with phonetic symbols:

/ɑr/ -- arm, car, charge, dark, farm, start

/ɛər/-- air, bare/bear, hair, there

/ɪər/-- beer, ear, hear/here, near

/ɜr/ -- bird, burn, fur, herd, earth, service, sir, turn, urgent

/ər/ -- baker, doctor, letter, summer

/ɔr/ -- for, important, more, north, or