How to Pronounce the IPA Symbols (1)

This is "my" set of IPA symbols, and the ones that I use for the languages I speak. I did this video before I learned Georgian, for which I had to learn about 4 new sounds I'd never used before. This was filmed in early 2009 and I learned Georgian in the summer of 2009.

In the first half of the video (this video) I introduce the layout I've used, and then pronounce the sounds individually. I do not include vowels because vowels are very variable and they are not difficult to master. But if you'd like, I can make a separate video for the IPA vowels.

In the second half of the video (go to the second video), I pronounce all the sounds again with an "a" before and after each consonant so you get a feel for the consonant in a vowel environment.

If the quality of this video in particular is not good, especially for reading what's on the whiteboard, please request me to make a new one!!! I won't hesitate.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• IPA symbols
• pronunciation
• foreign language
• how to pronounce Chinese
• how to pronounce Arabic

[morthim]

my biggest problem with this is sound quality, more specifically the fan/monitor. doing multiple takes of higher quality would improve this as a learning tool. for example the difference between the 'duh' and the 'tha' sounds is made smaller due to the audio quality and the fan's hum. the video quality making the stuff on the whiteboard illegible is also a problem but relatively negligible considering i can just bring up most of the chart in another tab. only part is due to my poor ear...

[Glossika]

@morthim Unfortunately this video was made with some 2004-era cheap video technology (Sony handheld videocamera) and I'm planning to discontinue this series when I remake a new series on IPA.

[JSBWV582]

Wow you speak a lot of languages xD Do you speak Korean?

[Glossika]

@JSBWV582 I speak Korean poorly as I don't use it or practice it much.

[BeatBalley]

i can too pronounce all the sounds in IPA but i cant find the sounds voiceless velar lateral and voiced velar lateral on the internet soo i really dont sure how they sound.

[yurismir1]

@Glossika In the description it says it was filmed in 2009. Either way it's old. It depends on what your books are about. If they're books to help people learn English then clearly I don't need them.

[Glossika]

@yurismir1 There was a mistake in this video that was made about 2006, in all my current videos I explain this very clearly. In all the books that I have published I've always used ɫ, would you like to buy a book?

[yurismir1]

@Glossika But you pointed to it at about 7:38 in this video and said it was the "dark l in English", but it's not. That would be ɫ , the velarized alveolar lateral approximant.

[Glossika]

@yurismir1 I don't use capital L in my English teaching. That is a separate phonetic symbol.

[therandomsubscriber1]

YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!! I SPEAK CANTONAESE AND MANDARIN!!!! YOURE CHINESE IS AWESOME!!!!!1