We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them. In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...

This is an interative IPA chart, which you can edit to suit the phonetic or phonological inventory of your language. You can click on each vowel to edit its symbol; erase the value of that vowel to ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Phonetics is all about studying the sounds we make when we talk. There are three main branches of this discipline: This is the study of the sound waves made by the human vocal organs for communication ...