It reminds me of this quote: 'English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.' Seriously though, thank you for this video! It's very interesting and helpful. But it also shows me how much my stupid brain is trying to reduce the English phonemic inventory to that of my native Polish. For example, refuses to acknowledge that schwa is a thing. 😅

Thank you.

Nice video do more applied on all romanics idioms spoked on all world. IPA helps all idioms in discover ours culturals paths.

This is such a clear, helpful explanation. Thank you very much!

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

Holy shit bro your channel is amazing bro, I'm surprised that you dont have more subscribers

I remember my biggest surprise was that 'picturesque' doesn't read as 'pictures'+'queue' :D Very interesting, I hope you make a whole IPA series!

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

"picturesque" is a nice example!

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

Can you suggest some compelling topics that you would like me to cover? Phonetics is my passion but most people get bored by it, so I need to carefully choose a topic.

My take was push, sing, heart, hub, queue, rite. After looking at others ' solutions, the last two seem to be ambiguous. Nice content, by the way; thank you for sharing! I would be interested in a full IPA tutorial if you have the time and/or the mood for it.

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

Correct! I intentionally chose ambiguous transcriptions to make this quiz more interesting.

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

Phonetics is my passion and I would enjoy making a full IPA tutorial. My concern is that such video would not be compelling for most viewers. Phonetics seems to be a very niche topic, much harder than grammar or spelling.

@agostonschranz8810

10 ай бұрын

@@AuthLing Got it, do something that you like and helps you grow the audience!

Push, sing, heart, hub, cue, write. Looking forward to British accent as well!

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

Good job! I will have to speak with the British accent for the British video 😉

5:55 Remembering Geoff Lindsey's video, I would correct: most AmE dialects doesn't really distinguish /ə/ and /ʌ/. So, /əˈbəv/. BTW, even the most popular AmE dictionary, Merriam-Webster, doesn't use the vedge (ʌ) in transcriptions. 9:37 push, sing, heart, hub, cue/Q/queue, write/right/wright

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

There are so many conventions in different dictionaries: * Wiktionary: /kʌp/ /nɝs/ /ˈlɛtɚ/ * Oxford Learner's Dictionaries: /kʌp/ /nɜːrs/ /ˈletər/ * Merriam-Webster: /ˈkəp/ /ˈnərs/ /ˈletər/ * Cambridge /kʌp/ /nɝːs/ /ˈlet̬.ɚ/ I use Wiktionary every day, so I give its convention here. Wiktionary is also closer to the convention used by John Wells. Finally, Wiktionary is a free dictionary that covers plenty of languages, so it's useful to be acquainted with its transcription system.

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

I certainly agree with Geoff Lindsey. /ʌ/, /ə/ and /ɜ/ are the same phoneme in American English. Different symbols are used mainly for consistency with the classical British transcription by Gimson - a transcription uses outdated IPA ([ɜ] was previously used for any mid central vowel, now it should be open-mid central) and describes an outdated pronunciation (Conservative RP).

At school they taught us to use a colon ":" to mark the long vowels. E.g. "i" is short, "i:" is long. I am surprised you talk about using different characters for short and long vowels instead. Why are there two different ways to do the same thing?

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

This is a great question! British and Australian transcriptions show vowel length explicitly (/iː/ vs /ɪ/) but the American one does not: /i/ vs /ɪ/. Vowel length is phonemic in British and Australian English. This means that there are pairs of words that differ only in vowel length: shared [ʃɛːd] - shed [ʃɛd], foreword [ˈfoː.wəːd] - forward [ˈfoː.wəd]. Vowel length is not phonemic American English: there are no pairs of words that differ only in vowel length. Shared and shed sound as /ʃɛrd/ vs /ʃɛd/. The words foreword and forward sound the same: /ˈfɔr.wɚd/.

push sing heart hub Q, queue right, write, wright, rite

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

Correct! I like that you gave multiple spellings where several words sound the same.

Push, sing, heart, hub, queue, right

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

Correct!

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