PRONUNCIATION: SOUNDS OF ENGLISH
There are 44 sounds in English language, but unfortunately there are
only 26 letters of the alphabet to represent them. As such, people whose
mother tongue is other than English find it extremely difficult to produce
these sounds correctly – their pronunciation is often faulty. This
necessitates the learning of phonetic symbols on the part of all those
who are keen to speak English correctly.
Further, the variation in the pronunciation of consonants may not cause
much difference in the meaning of the words, but the production of
vowel sounds does, if they are not properly and distinctly pronounced.
It may also be noted that a, e, i, o, u are only vowel letters and not just
sounds. The following are the Vowel sounds, with their universally
understood transcriptions. These are 20 in number
There are 44 sounds in English language, but unfortunately there are
only 26 letters of the alphabet to represent them. As such, people whose
mother tongue is other than English find it extremely difficult to produce
these sounds correctly – their pronunciation is often faulty. This
necessitates the learning of phonetic symbols on the part of all those
who are keen to speak English correctly.
Further, the variation in the pronunciation of consonants may not cause
much difference in the meaning of the words, but the production of
vowel sounds does, if they are not properly and distinctly pronounced.
It may also be noted that a, e, i, o, u are only vowel letters and not just
sounds. The following are the Vowel sounds, with their universally
understood transcriptions. These are 20 in number
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