|
 |
Why don’t more dictionaries use IPA? | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Philological Room |  | |
| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4310 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 17 of 30 07 April 2014 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
|
A relevant new Stuart Jay Raj video:
link Edited by Retinend on 07 April 2014 at 2:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 18 of 30 09 April 2014 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
|
I think IPA is an interesting thing but not necessary at all. I agree about the main reasons: You can have just as good descriptions based on the source language of the course you're working with and you can get audio. And the audio will always be a superior tool to IPA. And many languages are quite regular so there is no need to learn IPA on top of the language itself, unless you know for sure you're gonna use it for more languages.
As an illustration of why I think IPA is totally unneeded for most learners, have an example: Imagine Assimil. The lessons wouldn't include their "homemade" transcript of the pronunciation, there would be IPA. And the preview would be like "Welcome to Assimil, you'll be learning with ease. But first you need to learn this new alphabet which you'll be using in the beginnings of learning only and never when communicating in the language itself". Actually, I had an English teacher who tried to teach us IPA (us=11 years old beginners, teach=occassionaly write something in it without having explained it before and than she was surprised and angry we didn't know what the hell she was talking about). :-D So, I think it is a nice thing, surely interesting for scholars, surely more precise than the other ways of writing down the pronunciation (once you drain the time into learning IPA itself) but I think wider spread of its use (I've seen it in many dictionaries but never in a coursebook actually) would have zero effect on the results of 99% of learners in my opinion. Edited by Cavesa on 09 April 2014 at 7:20pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 19 of 30 09 April 2014 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Why are so many people against of learning the pronunciation rules in Russian and state that the pronunciation can learned from ear or is unimportant at all? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 20 of 30 09 April 2014 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Learning the IPA adopted to a certain language is very easy. IPA is used in any textbook of English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 21 of 30 09 April 2014 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Not in any then. And even though it may be in some, I have yet to meet a learner who used it and found it helpful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 22 of 30 09 April 2014 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Let's meet. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 23 of 30 09 April 2014 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
This must be the greatest pick-up line ever! Worthy of a true language nerd! :-D As to your question: I simply don't know and I don't care. For my part, I do know the Russian pronunciation rules, which, however, does not mean I pronounce everything correctly. Listening actually helps in that regard. Edited by Josquin on 09 April 2014 at 10:33pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4653 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 24 of 30 14 April 2014 at 8:27am | IP Logged | ||||||||
|
I can understand why not many dictionaries in print use IPA (I have problems printing some symbols myself :P). Also, the ease-of-use for a common John is a factor, too.
However, in the internet age, especially the on-line dictionaries could stand to use IPA more. It's not that hard to learn and it's a godsend for me, when listening doesn't really help to discern the correct pronunciation. 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
