IPA 

Our aim is to promote the teaching and learning of English phonetics in Hongkong. We provide high quality English phonetics (IPA) and pronunciation courses for people at all levels of spoken English.

The course "Practical English Phonetics and Phonology" is one of our most popular choices. We are very proud to say that the quality and popularity of this course has been key to establishing the good reputation of IPA (HK). Mr Derek Kwok, the Course Lecturer, is an experienced phonetics educator with over 10 years teaching experience in English phonetics. His innovative teaching techniques and moderate sense of humour make the complex phonetics principles all the easier to understand.

The courses "English Phonetics Classes for Students" and "Practical English Phonetics and Phonology for Teachers" have provided students and teachers of English in HK with a better channel through which to understand the most important theories and key skills in pronunciation and many other features of spoken English.

As this Web Site comes into existence, we can now offer our students of phonetics with continuous learning and practice support. The pages under our "Club News" section are especially dedicated towards this goal. We believe that through this Web Site, the students of IPA (HK) will be able to further enrich their knowledge of English phonetics and pronunciation even after they have completed our courses.

 

Today's selected word:

The Philippines, Filipino, Filipina
The Philippines 菲律賓
Filipino 菲律賓人
Filipina 菲律賓女人

解讀:
Philippines之名來自十六世紀西班牙國皇 King Philip II.
1. 留意Philippines重音在第一音節, 如果沒有字緊隨其後, 第三音節/piːnz/讀較低音, 有別於粵語的第1聲"賓", 而是第4聲, 近似"便宜"的"便"(粵音/pin4/.)
2. 雖然大家都知英語的/ f /音, 可由字母f或字母ph產生. 但為何菲律賓人的英文不是串成Philippino? 相信很少人曾留意卻又會考起很多教串字或Phonics的"專家"的. 究其原因, Filipino/Filipina是源於西班牙語.

- Derek Kwok
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