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Phonetics: Learn the sounds of English lettersPhonetics is a branch of linguistics that examines sounds in a language. Phonetics describes these sounds using the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The IPA uses a single letter or symbol to desribe each sound in any language. If a letter in a word is silent, there will be no IPA symbol used in the transcriptions. The IPA can be helpful for studying a language, especially languages that use letters that are silent or have multiple pronunciations. Languages like Arabic and Spanish are consistant in their spelling and pronunciation - each letter represents a single sound which rarely varies. English is different, because it has many letters with two or more sounds and many silent letters. Learn more about English phonetics:
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