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:

putter
名詞: (打高爾夫球用的)輕擊球棒
動詞: 閒蕩,閒逛

讀音注意:
此字源於putt/pʌt/,而putt字又源於put /pʊt/,但元音卻不同。
我們若是沒有聽過putter的讀音,只 靠字母"推理", 很容易把put/pʊt /加上ter/tə/而錯讀成/ˈpʊtə/。

我們讀錯字的其中一個原因,是把熟識字的讀音合拼起來。例如in+famous=infamous, sub+title=subtitle, car+pet=carpet 等 。
現今香港幼兒教育著重字母拼音(phonics)。但又有多少人知道,當我們以為小朋友學懂了"看生字的字母、識讀生字的讀音"的時候,其實正是他累積英文錯讀字的開始!

-Derek Kwok (郭 豪)
 
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