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IPA is also amazingly useful if you want to learn another language or even just learn to say someone's name correctly. Having a notation for sounds helps you
by mantap 7y ago
IPA is also amazingly useful if you want to learn another language or even just learn to say someone's name correctly.
Having a notation for sounds helps you to understand and speak foreign languages, because you can think of what someone is saying in IPA and not in some flawed English transcription.
- mathieuh 7y agoIt definitely took me longer than an hour to learn IPA, but aside from that, definitely. I have an amateur interest in linguistics so I picked it up through reading Wikipedia articles on obscure languages, I would say I use it at least once a week. Very helpful when learning languages that have sounds that aren't in a language you already speak, because your brain tends to map those sounds to similar sounds you already know. Like how English speakers can't distinguish between French [u] and [ou] (/y/ and /u/ in IPA). Even if you can't hear it you can read about how to articulate it.
- SkyMarshal 7y agoWhat's IPA? Googling that is gonna show a of links for beer.
- Jarwain 7y agoThe International Phonetic Alphabet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alpha...
- SllX 7y agoAlso a little life hack that has served me well for over ten years, and rarely fails me: Wikipedia’s disambiguation page for those hard to Google acronyms. The format will be something like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_(disambiguation) If there’s a long list, generally it will be organized by context.