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:

shew, shrew

1. shew (show 的舊寫)
2. shrew 鼩鼱(形似小老鼠)

大家看見ew字母,會想起那幾個讀音?

我試出一個練習給大家,請朗讀以下生字:
few /fjuː/, brew /bruː/, new /njuː/, flew /fluː/, dew /djuː/, sew /səʊ/, grew /ɡruː/, hew /hjuː/, view /vjuː/, chew /tʃuː/, Jew /dʒuː/, Lew /luː/, Kew /kjuː/, mew /mjuː/, Rew /ruː/, shew /ʃəʊ/, shrew /ʃruː/, slew /sluː/, spew /spjuː/, threw /θruː/,

英語字母讀音變化多,很多時沒有規律可言,有需要應参考其音標(IPA),會較為可靠。


Derek Kwok ( 郭 豪 )
E.D.530468