How to remember IPA phoneme symbols: my tricks!
Have you ever tried to read a pronunciation guide and been confused? Do you just skip those guides because you don’t understand the symbols? Memorising the symbols for each of the sounds in English is very difficult and takes time. In this lesson, however, I will teach you a shortcut to help you remember all the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols for the sounds in the English language. Learning these symbols takes time, practice, and patience, but it will greatly improve your overall pronunciation of English. Whether you are a beginner or advanced learner, you will surely find this a useful lesson for your pronunciation skills.
Next, watch my other IPA lessons to master these important tools for your English pronunciation:
1. Introduction to the IPA and vowel sound training: • Improve your accent: I...
2. Accent training exercises: • Accent training exerci...
Watch my other IPA lessons to master these important tools for your English pronunciation: 1. Introduction to the IPA and vowel sound training: kzhead.info/sun/qblsgKl5mmJorGw/bejne.html 2. Accent training exercises: kzhead.info/sun/pZqoZrKHoXmsaoE/bejne.html
Happy new year to you, best of luck and more and prettier :D, from Vietnam with love
Hi Jade! I'm a native English speaker and I want your opinion on something. I notice that in your example "English ship," you said that ɪ was not the first vowel in "English." I agree. However, if you look up the IPA transcription of English, you'll see [ˈɪŋglɪʃ]. In your opinion, what is the first vowel in English?
Is it called IPA or the phonetic alphabet? I don't mean to seem rude, I'm just confused
@@Mike-lx9qn IPA and the phonetic alphabet are the same thing. IPA is simply an acronym that means "international phonetic alphabet."
@@violet_broregarde Oh...
You are trying so hard to explain them and I think I finally got them. Even I could not remember the symbols I will remember how you made this sounds. Thank you ♥
Although I could not remember the symbols, I will remember how you made these sounds-*
i can finally remember aa ee oooo
IPA had always scared the shit out of me, so I kinda lied to myself that it wasn't that important and that it was okay if I knew nothing about it. A few years later, I still struggle with a pronunciation and , yeah, I guess I just can't run away anymore, I have to learn these weird symbols. Accidentally, I found this video and I feel grateful that you decide to share this so attentively with the world. Thank you, it doesn't freak me out anymore, it looks fun and I will keep practicing :)
So, how has the progress been?
@@powerhousebikki I feel more comfortable reading the IPA these days and I think it helps me pronouncing words more naturally. Or maybe I just imagine it haha
@@bbright777 I see. It's probably helping you. I'll try to learn it too.
No that's not my piece of cake
@@akaur4533 I think you meant "my cup of tea"
I am a speech and language therapist struggling to remember all the vowel symbols. You're a legend! Thanks so much for helping
That's because you don't really need to know how to pronounce words, you know it anyway. If you were trying to read words without knowing how to pronounce them, knowing the sound symbols would be paramount to you.
what's the work of speech therapist
@@ebrimaf.jawneh1016 We work with adults and children who have difficulty communicating. We might work on attention, understanding and using language, social communication or speech. We work with children and adults, for example adults who have had a stroke or children with special educational needs.
Vowels: 1:25 Consonants 11:05 Diphthongs 20:00
You deserve a hug for this one homie
Love your little anecdotes, personal experience, and advice in understanding the vowels in regards to the Greek prononciations. Soo intuitive. You're amazing!!! Thank you Jade x
IPA is so important to learn! We had all the glossary written also in IPA, starting from elementary school text books (since we were eight years old), and it has really helped me when studying all foreign languages!
This is so helpful and makes learning IPA super easy. You're a life-saver, can't thank you enough!
Brilliant memory aid - having a word that describes the sound & backed up by an image. This is the key to unlocking the pronounciation of any word in any language provided you have the IPA spelling of that word.
"The Kim Kardashian of phonemes". British humor at its best!
She's a dip thong 🍓
Sorry but what does it mean?
Bruh I cant
It’s nice to know that her ass has floated across the pond. Maybe she smuggled in Kanya West.
@@The2010Picky *ellos son gente sería*
I have an exam tomorrow on the English phonetic alphabet and you're making my work so much easier because I recognize the sounds easily but I struggle to remember the symbols so thank u so much!!
Since the brain thinks visually i.e. in pictures, the fact you've gone through such steps and figured out the visual depiction with reasoning is unparalleled. Thank you.
Maybe you don't know but this lesson is pretty amazing because it is using what is said "MEMORY ASSOCIATION" that is a technique to remember you want by associate it to "something", that can be a draw or something else you want. There are a lot of books about this subject. Well done Jade!
I love the way Jade says Puw the Buw and Symbows. This video is such a great example to stop my students saying Pulla the Bulla and Symbolis
Mi inglés es básico por lo tanto puedo comprender poco del idioma pero entendí perfecto este vídeo y de verdad me ayudaron mucho estos tips. Hace un año conocí los signos IPA y quedé aterrorizada pues era difícil encontrar las diferencias sin embargo este vídeo me sirvió para darle una segunda oportunidad a la fonetica. Muchas gracias por compartir tus conocimientos.
This is a really good guide! English is my first language but I am a language student so this is very helpful - good work!
nice
Still finding a bit hard Mr Banjofied😭and I’m studying English
do you mind if we could practice together? I'm studying English at college
I loved your video as a visual learner this made memorizing the vowels much easier than reading them off a page. Thank you 😊😊
Thanks jade . It's really useful idea to learn IPA by associating the sound , picture and your voice. That helped me to remember the lesson. We need more videos like this to improve our pronouciation especially the connected speech.
You really put in effort and hard work into learning and teaching IPA. I feel guilty how easy you made for me to study IPA. BLESS YOU. 🙌
I love this video! You explain it so well! And I love your subtle sense of humour!
You are an excellent teacher, Jade! Thanks so much for your creative explanation 🥰
You are the symbol of the British accent.. I like to hear and listen to you a lot 🤗
Been searching for this lesson & already came across a few more but found this lady's way much much easier & more more smarter way 👏
Thanks for this Jade. It's helpful to have some images to remember these sounds and relate them to the corresponding IPA symbol. Whenever I teach this to students, many of which have studied English for about 10 years here in Spain, I'm always told that they've never heard of this before. I use it to help improve their pronunciation, because what I find is that there are only 5 Spanish vowel sounds. It's also useful when looking up new words in a dictionary where the phonemic script is written to help with pronunciation. Many of my students are in the habit of approximating the English vowel sounds to ones that they already know. This results in unclear pronunciation and difficulty in listening, as they are not able to distinguish between the different vowel sounds. By focusing on some phonology practice, I've been able to help them speak more clearly and understand more accurately. They do protest a bit at first, because of the weird IPA symbols and also the amount of effort required to produce the correct sounds. However, over several weeks they start to notice improvements and benefits in this approach.
Watching this an hour and a half before my phonetics midterm, a very useful way to remember the symbols :D
for the weird "Th" sound thingy with the bug drawing, you can also think of Father. Since the symbol is similar to a cross or a rosary worn by a priest that is usually referred to as "Father", and in the word Father we hear that vibrato Th shound.
The way you associate the symbols and model words is really appreciable, kudos. 👍
السلام عليكم :)
Exactly as I learned them 50 years ago. There is a much easier way to explain though: short and long vowels and groups of consonants pronounced together for some of them. Coming from a language with phonetic spelling, it was so much easier for me to understand these signs.
thank you! I have been wanting to learn these for years. the part in the front of my dictionary that has them was not the way. this is great! cheers!
You're making what i've always thought i'd never learn, a smooth journey...thank you
I’m learning IPA at the moment in order to study Pro-Indo-European (study, *not* learn!). This helped a lot. Thank you, and I hope you’re keeping well!
I have a different accent in English but you've given me such great ideas here for my own ways of remembering! Thank you so much!
Great lesson! Clear and memorable, thanks a lot
Thank you for your easy illustration of the vowels and dipthongs as it makes more sense to me now.
Thanks Jade! This is really a smart way of understanding English phonemes.
Thanks Jade, interesting lesson. Happy New Year. ✨
Love you Mam! i watched this video lecture twice after completed once.. you are teaching using imagination what's need of hour to do. we always learn better in picture... thanks and a lot love to you and your family for this beautiful work for us. i will be watching from you more and more.. i will follow your lectures. Thank you again. thanks to god to get this video on my youtube wall. I am feeling grateful.
Thank you, Jade. Great lesson. Happy New Year.
I went through this entire video looking like this :0 lmao, thank you for this! It really made memorizing the symbols way easier.
This is the best video I have ever watched about english pronounciation/transcription
so nice to see you again. My English is good enough... I just watch your videos because of you...
Exellent lesson! Thank you very much Jade! :)
You're awesome for posting this. Thank you for helping me and others!
Hi, you are such a great teacher. Thank you so much! 💗
You are just amazing dear Teacher ... All the best for the 2020 !!
Thank you for your this video☺️ I was really struggling learning and remembering the IPA symbols and its sounds. You really help me a lot💗
thank u so muchhhhh. this is what i call life saver. i have an exam tomorow and ive benn revising them for 1 month but i couldnt remember them at all untill i found ur video thank uuuuu
Thank you so much for doing this. At school my English teacher never taught us about the IPA.. and I'm still struggling at pronouncing words but I hope I get better.
i can pronounce excellently but i just want to understand these symbols...
Thank you! ☺ I really appreciate your time teaching us the easy way to remember Ipa.
thank you so much ! A teacher like you is all I ever needed 🧡
I am preparing for my TKT m1 exam and this video helps me a lot !!
I’ve been teaching this for 45 years and I can tell you it takes a few minutes to recognize them.
Your teaching is so nice. I enjoy watching you lesson.
السلام عليكم :)
Great work of art! I love you Jade.
Happy new year! You're soooo good at explaining!!!!! And on top of it.... so cute!
Simp
awesome Jade! I am training in my DELTA and have been dreading learning these! I am hugely visual and this video has worked a treat!! Thank you so much!
This is really useful, thank you I will be back to watch again and again until I can remember this.
I love this video so much, whenever I forget the IPA I come back here. thank you so much
Great video. Just one tiny question. What about the double vowel ai, as in I, or beside. Was it meant to be included on Dave's face as his *eyes*? Thank you so much for this great tip/video.
Excellent work ! You're an amazing teacher!!! 👍
Where are u from Sabrina?
Thanks a lot. This will surely help my daughter greatly. I love the illustrations.
This helped me to quickly learn this and have some fun; truly excellent! Thank you!
You're incredibly smart! To have thought of images to remember these sounds is simply genius. Thanks for sharing.
I find your bull picture there quite lovely and I'm thinking about putting it on a t-shirt. ;-)
For people like me, IPA is a great help. Because my language is as phonetic as a written alphabet can be (we have extra letters and pairs of letters added to the Latin alphabet), the challenge was to understand that English is something else. We have the IPA transcription added to English dictionaries. When I hear a new word, I have to see how it's written, I automatically write everything down in my mind. It was a challenge to distinct the English phonemes from my native ones. The most notorious is the schwa. In my native language, if you don't pronounce vowels and syllables clearly, you sound uneducated. In English, any vowel can turn into the same schwa, yet you still speak posh - unless you turn your diphthongs into a schwa (yellow/yella, window/winda), then you'll be called a peasant. 😃 I still find it hard sometimes.
Steven Huffnagel where are u from?
Thank you loads, the way you explained and the signs you used are really helpful
Great, it motivated me to learn all of these! I surely will come back to this video :D
You won't
@@thinkpanzer6690 Hahahaha, in fact, I did, but indirectly. I learnt the ones which don't exist in my language. It helped me quite a lot.
@@thinkpanzer6690 he did
I am very impressed as it is first team I read proper pronunciation here through this video. it is beautiful method to protect us from confusion in different words pronunciation
Great video. Linking symbols with drawing contaminating them is creative is useful and easier to memorize the sound.
Thank you so much for so amazing video and class. I had been trying to learn this before. But your class was particularly helpful. Once again thank you so much.
Thanks a bunch!!! This is REALLY HELPFUL, congratulations Jade!💚
This was really good!!!!!! Loved the David Dip so much, that I wasn't expecting it at all!!!!!
5:00 in Hebrew there's a vaul marking (the dotts) named shva it looks like this אְ and it makes the same sound
I learnt these, I know them very well. I still use most of the suggestions from this video.
can't thank you enough! this is original and so very didactic ! it for sure will help a lot of people as it did for me!
Thank you Jade!, You are the best teacher. Happy new year!!!
Thank you for this video! The IPA has been tough for me to remember
Thank you soooo much, the IPA stuck into my memory, thanks for the wonderful explanation from a gorgeous and kindly lady🌸💘
I HAVE AN EXAM TOMORROW. This video is a LIFESAVER
I like your pronunciation lesson. You are also good at drawing lovely pictures.
Thank you! I could never remember the IPC symbols, but using your mnemonics I think I will be able to remember them.
Great and very helpful video! Thanks for sharing! The only remark that I have is that your symbol for close back rounded long vowel, i.e. the /u:/, on the first slide is incorrect. Although you did put the correct symbol in your transcription for 'you on the next slide'. Is there something I'm not getting?
Awesome mnemonic drawings, especially "uh" ! thx you)
Thank u soo much for making this video! Before watching it nothing was making sense but now I can understand it all! 💜
1:53 ‘The phrase “English ship” has the /ɪ/ twice in it: once in “English” and once in “ship”.’ I counted /ɪ/ THREE times: TWICE in “/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/” and once in “/ʃɪp/”. It's easy to overlook the first one, because the spelling hides the vowel behind a letter E.
some people; me included, definitely say it as /i/nglish
So wonderful! Thank you Jade!
finally a way to remember the symbols! thank you!!
This is so helpful! Thank you very much.
All that i will say is excellent Jade....simply beautiful!!
the pictures are so cute! and I got how to speak phonetic symbols, thanks！
You explained everything so good, this is really useful, thank you for doing this magnificient video!
Hey I think this is one of the most genuine mnemonic ways of a person tackling the IPA but I think the only thing I would change is the “ say ahh “ I could have not done better but I’m American so the accent is different.
I love you Jade. You've explained this IPA thing so well. Thanks a lot.
Thanks Jade, I have to resit an exam tomorrow and like 30% of it is phonetics and this video might be the only thing that can save at this point. Very creative, I like it. If I remember this comment I'll let you know if I passed, lol
Great instructions, Jade!
Thanks mam....I was much worried about this topic having in linguistics paper... I was always in search of this topic with tastefully tricks which I have got finally ...God bless you.. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
I love this! It was very helpful! Do you have this board work as a graphic image?
welcome back thanks for your efforts
Thanks for your great explanations and visual memory ideas. Do you perhaps have photos of the whiteboards images that could be saved or downloaded for studying practice, please?
thanks, i'm finally understanding phonemes, thanks a lot!