CAS LN 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: International Phonetic Alphabet, Namaste, Tumblr
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This isn"t a lesson in hindi per se, but it might be useful (or perhaps even interesting) to know. You don"t have to read this and you won"t miss anything if you don"t. If you nd it confusing please just skip past it! If you"ve ever studied language or linguistics you may have come across what"s called the international. Ipa is basically a whole bunch of a letters and symbols that are used to represent every single possible sound in all the worlds spoken languages. Although this might seem rather complex its actually so helpful when learning a language because each letter or symbol represents a single sound, there"s absolutely no ambiguity and it"s universally used. In fact you"ve probably seen ipa without realising because ipa is used in a lot of dictionaries to help with pronunciation of some words. For example have a look at this entry from cambridge online dictionary;
