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Is spoken language really taught? | ||
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 25 of 26 25 April 2010 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5430 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 26 of 26 25 April 2010 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think phonetic transcriptions are useful when the spelling system is a poor guide to pronunciation for the non-nation speaker. I emphasize "non-native speaker" because for native speakers the spelling is system is usually not a problem because users have a phonetic image of the word in their heads. French, for example, has all kinds of letters that may or may not be pronounced according to the context. All modern French dictionaries use the IPA phonetic transcriptions because it gives the best idea of how a word is pronounced.
Although the phonetic symbols have to be learned, I think phonetic transcription can be very useful to highlight differences or similarities of sound regardless of the spelling. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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