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I think I can speak for many many people who casually read Wikipedia articles by asking: how does one go about practically learning the IPA, so as to be able to
by adamrezich 3y ago
I think I can speak for many many people who casually read Wikipedia articles by asking: how does one go about practically learning the IPA, so as to be able to read (not even write) something like that? every time I come across a Wikipedia article that uses IPA to explain pronunciation, it's wholly inscrutable gibberish, completely useless if there isn't a listen-to-someone-saying-it button.
- akavi 3y agoJust like you learn anything else. Flash cards, pure repeated exposure, reading about the symbols long enough that you have a framework to fit them into, etc.
- meepmorp 3y agoTranscription practice really helped me associate IPA with speech sounds.
- RandallBrown 3y agoUsually those pronunciations are also links to the IPA helper page. I've used it to figure out pronunciations in the past.
- hunter2_ 3y agohttps://itinerarium.github.io/phoneme-synthesis/ https://itinerarium.github.io/phoneme-synthesis/
- pezezin 3y agoIn my case, we learnt it in high school. Our teachers insisted on it being very useful to look up the pronunciation of unknown words, and we even had exams where we had to transcribe from IPA to the standard spelling. This was in Spain though, were the national language has a very consistent spelling, and English is taught as a second language. I don't know how it is in other countries.