Formal and Informal Expressions

formal and informal

In English, we have formal and informal expressions with the same meaning. so you can adjust your language to different audiences.

Phonetic Definitions: phone, phoneme, allophone

Phonetic Definitions

Phonetics is a really big subject and people often ask me questions that I don’t know the answer to. Today we are going to look at one of those questions, this time about Phonetic Definitions and the meaning of some terms that are used in phonetics. Lilian says: Well a lot of people think I am an […]

Diphthongs in International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is probably the diphthong sounds that give people the most difficulty. Here is a comment from one of my YouTube viewers who it seems may be a bit confused about diphthongs and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Roni says: Well Roni, in the word Parent the we write the diphthong sound […]

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