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| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6680 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 73 of 94 16 January 2008 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am not sure what you are talking about.
What I am using is this chart from time to time : http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia /pron/chart/chart.shtml The phonemic alphabet with its sounds. It isn't necessary to be a genius to understand this and very useful. Edited by slucido on 16 January 2008 at 1:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6862 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 74 of 94 16 January 2008 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
It depends on the individual. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| edwin Triglot Senior Member Canada towerofconfusi&Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 160 posts - 183 votes 9 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French, Spanish, Portuguese | Message 75 of 94 16 January 2008 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
She was drawing this diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/IPA_vowel_char t_2005.png Take away all the IPA symbols, point to anywhere in the chart, and I would have some idea what it sounds like. The symbols are just there to confuse me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6862 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 76 of 94 16 January 2008 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Edwin, you've made your point very clear that you have no use for the IPA. Is there a point beyond this that we are missing?
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7161 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 77 of 94 16 January 2008 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Look Edwin, you're just as bad as Zhuangzi. There's no absolute harm in not knowing IPA. At the same time there's no absolute harm in knowing it. It's not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Just because you, Zhuangzi and others didn't find it to be useful, it doesn't mean that everyone else will also share your experience and thus agree with your criticism of it.
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| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6680 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 78 of 94 16 January 2008 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Maybe to confuse you, but not to me. The symbols are very useful for me. Why? Because with a few repetitions a know automatically how the phoneme sounds and , when I read this symbols in a word representations, I know automatically the sound. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| edwin Triglot Senior Member Canada towerofconfusi&Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 160 posts - 183 votes 9 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French, Spanish, Portuguese | Message 79 of 94 16 January 2008 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
I did not say that IPA is of no use to me. My point is that it is an overkill for a typical language learner. A few forum members responsed with things like, "part of it is useful to us". In other words, they agree that it is an overkill. However, some forum member tries to attack me verbally, saying that I am as bad as somebody else. Should I report this to the administrators? Edited by edwin on 16 January 2008 at 2:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6862 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 80 of 94 16 January 2008 at 2:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
The IPA may or not be overkill, but your posts sure are! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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