THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH
When writing English we use the 26
letters of the alphabet. Spoken English has more than 26 sounds though. There
are roughly 44 different sounds.There is a system which uses a group of
symbols. Some of these symbols look the same as letters and some are very
different.
You can use these symbols to write out the pronunciation of words. To show that what is written are sounds and not letters the transcriptions are written between slashes, / /.
You can use these symbols to write out the pronunciation of words. To show that what is written are sounds and not letters the transcriptions are written between slashes, / /.
For example, the pronunciation of the word 'pet' is written: /pet/.
In this
example the symbols look exactly the same as the letters. You can only
tell we are talking about pronunciation rather than spelling because of the //.
However,
some words look very different when you see their pronunciation.
is the word 'church'.
LEARNING THE SOUNDS
These are the symbols for the sounds of English.
The sounds are organised into the following different groups:
Short vowels
Long vowels
Diphthongs (double vowel sounds)
Voiceless consonants
Voiced consonants
Other consonants
VOWELS
CONSONANTS
Exercises
HOMOPHONES
Hay palabras que se pronuncian de la misma manera,aunque se escriban y signifiquen cosas diferentes. A estas palabras se les llama palabras
homófonas. Por ejemplo "bee- be" /bi:/
HOMOGRAPHS
También hay palabras llamadas homógrafas, las palabras homógrafas se
escriben y se pronuncian igual, pero su significado es diferente
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