International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) | English Pronunciation

This lesson explains the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and how it can help with English pronunciation. I start the lesson by defining the International Phonetic Alphabet and showing why it is so useful. The letters of a word don’t help us in knowing how to pronounce it because the same letter can have lots of different sounds in different words. For example, the letter “c“ has a very different sound in the word “car“ compared to the letter “c“ in the word “dice“. Also the same phonetic sound can be