Phonetics

One of the most important applications of phonetics is in the teaching foreign languages. It allows teachers to examine the differences between the sounds of source and target languages and explain this differences to learners. It also enables learners to better understand and speak the language they are learning. Phonetics makes us to help in decoding words and pronouncing it correctly. It improves your fluency level. It also gives you a good  confidence level . The traditional method of describing speech sounds is in terms of the movements of the vocal organs that produce them. Learning Phonetics will help us to read the contents fluently without struggling. It is the branch of Linguistics where the sounds and physical properties of human speech sounds and studied. It is the teachings of foreign languages . In order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns that represent them. Each symbol of the Phonetic chart represents a sound used in British Southern English and each symbol has its own unique position.

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