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:

Sure
解讀:
sure主要有3種不同讀法. 英式有兩種讀法(UK1, UK2), 與美式(US)讀音不同.
我們單靠英文字母, 很難"推理"出某生字究竟有多少種讀法. 學習IPA後, 只要參考優質字典的註音(下圖), 便有效增進我們對生字讀音的認識.
另外, 有部份香港人把sure的s讀成/s/音, 這亦是依賴字母拼音引發的常見發音問題. 類似的錯誤還有把suɡar讀成/ˈsʊɡə/, 把tissue讀成/ˈtɪsuː/, 以上例子的字母s應讀/ʃ/音.
 
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