Tips for Teachers: Understand Phonetic Articulation and Phonemics

Below is a chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols.  These symbols represent all the sounds that have been found in languages around the world.  The chart also distinguishes the place of articulation and the articulators used for each sound.  Find out which of these sounds are phonemes in the language you are teaching and compare them to the phonemes of the languages from which your students come.

In the next couple of days I will be posting specifically about French phonemic vowels their comparison to the phonemic vowels of other world languages.

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