This video is an Phonetic Chart with a British Male voice with example words.
Sections of the phonetic chart
There are three sections to the phonetic chart. First we have the vowel sounds which are displayed in green, then the diphthong sounds in red and the consonants in blue. The consonants are split into two further groups consisting of the consonant pair sounds and the single consonants. We have also made videos about each of these sections giving more details about the pronunciation of each of the sounds along with example words. You can find links to these videos below.
Our versions of the Phonetic chart
The version of the chart above plays all the sounds along with example words to give an introduction and an overview of how the different symbols represent the different sounds and how this is sometimes inconsistent with the actual spelling. As well as the video version of the chart above, we have made 2 other versions.
The other versions are interactive and you can click on the individual symbols to hear the sound. One has the example words and the other does not. The version that does not have the examples is designed for people who have dictionaries with the phonetic spelling of each word to be able to spell out words to better understand the pronunciation. The other version has the examples and is designed to be used to further study any of the individual sounds.
You can find links to these other versions below.
- interactive phonetic chart without examples
- interactive IPA chart with examples
For an overall explanation of how the phonetic chart works we have made a video entitled: Phonetic chart explained. This video talks about the positioning of each symbol and how that related to the physical production of each sound.
