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:

invalid
名詞noun. 病人(需要他人長期照料的)
形容詞adj. 無效的,不合法的,官方不承認的

讀 音 注 意:
Invalid 一字可作名詞及形容詞用,但其詞意及讀音均不同。
名詞重音在第一音節,形容詞重音在第二音節。另外第二及第三音節的元音亦不相同(留意國際音標-IPA)。

此字顯示了英語字母拼音的限制性;同一個字(或字母組合),可因用法不同而讀音不同。與invalid同樣根據用法而讀音有別的英文字還有不少,日後將在此向大家介紹。
不少香港學生從小養成依賴字母拼音的習慣,這構成了日後讀錯英文生字的主要原因。

- Derek Kwok (郭 豪)
 
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