Do you know what's IPA
yesterday i had an online lesson.it's about how to improve your pronunciation and explain the main reasones why you can't speak like English native speakers .
it's very useful to learn it. but in the middle of the lesson, i was surprised by what the teacher told us.he says "i know that when chinese they started to learn English, they learn 26letters and IPA first, but the truth is that almost 99%English native speakers,they even don't know what's IPA let alone learn it, if they do learn IPA, it must be for doing linguistic research . "
then i was like "whattt? "native speakers they don't learn phonetics? but why their pronunciation so good ?well, i know it's a silly question.haha but i am really curious about how native speaker learn to pronounce a new word they never know before if they don't learn IPA. is there any different way to learn how to pronounce? if so, please tell me, cuz it might be a good method to learn it. cuz i really don't like IPA that much .
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Do you know what the IPA is?
Yesterday I had an online lesson. It was about how to improve your pronunciation and explained the main reasons why you can't speak like English native speakers .it was very useful, but in the middle of the lesson, I was surprised by what the teacher told us. He said "I know that when the Chinese start learning English, they learn 26 letters and the IPA first, but the truth is that almost 99% of English native speakers don't even know what the IPA is, let alone learn it. If they do learn the IPA, it must be for doing linguistic research . "
Then I was taken aback. "native speakers don't learn phonetics? But why not? Their pronunciation is so good?" Well, I know it's a silly question, haha, but I am really curious about how native speakers learn to pronounce a new word they never know before if they don't learn the IPA. Is there a different way to learn how to pronounce? if so, please tell me, because it might be good to learn it, and I really don't like IPA that much .
Sometimes, when a native English speaker reads a book and finds a word he does not know, he goes to the English-English dictionary. He might not know how to pronounce it either, so he will need the IPA. I did this many times when reading. I could not ask my parents as they were uneducated. I think it's normal for many native English speakers. Regrettably for me, in those days, En-En dictionaries with IPA were rare, so I guessed as several words. I don't really know where your teacher got his/her 99% from. You can ask him/her if you want.
Very well written!
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