Is phonetic symbol is really helpful? / myLot

Philippines

November 24, 2020 5:14am CST

Some of the teachers nowadays are teaching students how to pronounce a word using phonics. They said that it is easy since they're doing it on every syllable which makes the student learn the word easier than the other ways. For me, it is really helpful because that is how I learned how to pronounce English words when I was a kid.

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Just an Ordinary Owl?

@owlwings (43915)

• Cambridge, England

24 Nov 20

I'm sure that the International Phonetics characters are very useful for language students, especially in English which has so many anomalies in spelling and pronunciation.

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rhuenz

@rhuenz (10646)

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24 Nov 20

I think that would be helpful and easier way for the students to learn. I had a student ,i said She and when it's her turn she pronounced it Si.

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Just an Ordinary Owl?

@owlwings (43915)

• Cambridge, England

24 Nov 20

@rhuenz It is quite common not to be able to pronounce the 'sh' sound and to replace it with 's'. I don't think that phonetic writing would have helped much here.