So for any written word, you can identify the associated phoneme symbols, and with a bit of practice, pronounce the word! Congratulations, you can speak Greek now! The IPA was created by the International Phonetic Association. Currently, the IPA consists of 107 sound symbols, 52 diacritics (accents) and 4 prosodic marks (intonations) encompassing virtually every phoneme used in every language on the earth. How about a word in a foreign language? Now that must be impossible! Or is it? Imagine a set of symbols that could tell you how to pronounce any word in any language on the planet? Well that is exactly what the International Phonetic Alphabet is. How can you pronounce a word you've never read? It can be a bit tricky. What is the International Phonetic Alphabet? Sham, ocean, sure, special, pension, machine, conscience, station Zed, buzz, his, scissors, xylophone, craze Sit, less, circle, scene, psycho, listen, pace, course Net, funny, know, gnat, pneumonic, mneumonic Kit, cat, chris, accent, folk, bouquet, queen, rack, box Jam, wage, giraffe, edge, soldier, exaggerate
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