IPA Learning Centre

Our aim is to promote the teaching and learning of English phonetics in Hongkong. Our teaching centre, the IPA Learning Centre, is an Education Bureau registered school located in Kowloon. 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:

Raleigh
The capital of the state of North Carolina, USA
美 國 北 卡 羅 來 納 州 首 府

讀 音 注 意:
此字的ɡh字母不 發 音.

另外ral- 字母組合, 至少有以下3種讀音可能:
/rɑːl/ e.g. Raleigh
/rɔːl/ e.g. Raleigh
/ræl/ e.ɡ. rally
而lei-字母組合, 則至少有以下5種讀音可能:
/li/ e.ɡ. ʀaleiɡh
/leɪ/ e.ɡ. sleiɡh
/lə/ e.ɡ. villein
/laɪ/ e.ɡ. Leica
/le/ e.g. leisure

盡管不考慮此字最後ɡh不發音及不考慮重音位置, Ralei-字母組合, 至少有以下15種讀音可能:
rɑːli, rɑːleɪ, rɑːlə, rɑːlaɪ, rɑːle
rɔːli, rɔːleɪ, rɔːlə, rɔːlaɪ, rɔːle
ræli, ræleɪ, rælə, rælaɪ, ræle

由於英文字母與讀音存在不規律性, 本會不鼓勵以字母拼音(Phonics), 作為英語發音教學的基礎.
 
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