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We've done all the symbols for all the sounds of English now, but there's no point in that unless you can read the IPA out aloud quite quickly and fluently, so that's what we're going to practice now.
I'm going to start out in this lesson with the IPA transcriptions of familiar, easy words, of one syllable only, to give you practice in reading the transcriptions and especially in making sure that you get the vowel right.
Throughout this section, I'm going to show you the IPA transcription of the word, then I'll pause the video -
you should then say what you see on the screen ALOUD - before I say it and we move on.
Do say the words aloud; don't just mouth them silently. I want you to read them aloud and confidently because that's what the course is for.
If you have a recording device handy, record yourself and compare your pronunciation with mine as you listen to me.
Here we go - 19 short words, one for each of the vowels, minus schwa because schwa cannot occur on its own.
1./paɪ/ - pie
2./treɪn/ - train
3./piːtʃ/ - peach
4./glʌv/ - glove
5./tæŋk/ - tank
6./lɪmp/ - limp
7./tʊk/ - took
8./klaʊn/ - clown
9./peə/ - pair, pare
10./pɪə/ - pier, peer
11./tuːt/ - toot
12./tʃɔɪs/ - choice
13./əʊn/ - own
14./pjʊə/ - pure
15./leg/ - leg
16./tɔːt/ - taught, taut, tort
17./hɑːt/ - heart, hart
18./ʃɒp/ - shop
19./kwɪk/ - quick
Hopefully you did well on all those - now on to the next set of words, each of more than one syllable.
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