Task 3: Pronunciation and phonetics

Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that examines sounds in a language. Phonetics describes these sounds using the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

The dictionary Cambridge say: “The IPA is a system of symbols for ​showing how words are ​pronounced”

The sounds are organized into the following different groups:

Vowel: long and short vowels, exist another classification: diphthongs and monophthongs.

Consonants: voiced and voiceless

I think when someone start learning a foreign language; the first step is to learn how to pronounce the sounds and words of this language. In addition, people must use audio or video to learn pronunciation. Sometimes words are pronounced very quickly, and some words may contain many unfamiliar sounds. For that, I recommended to reproduce the correct pronunciation just by listening to the recording. The phonetic transcription will help with that problem.