- •The Phonetic Alphabet
- •The System of English Monophthongs
- •Graphic Equivalents of the /ı/ Phoneme
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Правило позиционной долготы гласных
- •Graphic Equivalents of the /e/ Phoneme
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Слабое и сильное примыкание гласных
- •Word Rhythm
- •Graphic Equivalents of the /æ/ Phoneme
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Английские смычные взрывные согласные Stops
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Правило четырех степеней аспирации
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •If I put it in my batter
- •It will make my batter bitter,
- •Sonants
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Graphic Equivalents of the /¿/ Phoneme or port, pork, born, sordid, sorbet, fortepiano, forward
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •U but, sun, must, hiccup, mussel, muslin, mutton, kung fu
- •If you love me as I love you, no knife shall cut our love in two.
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Сочетания согласных
- •Graphic Equivalents of the /u/ Phoneme
- •Graphic Equivalents of the /¬/ Phoneme
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Er term, serve, hertz, herpes, coerce, Percy
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •A about, catabolic, logical, woman, dramaturgy, drama
- •Чередование гласных в ударной позиции
- •Английские дифтонги
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Proverbs and Sayings
- •Tongue-Twisters
- •Ur fury, pure, Nureyev
- •Ewer fewer, newer
- •Tongue-Twisters
The Phonetic Alphabet
The phonetic alphabet is a writing system in which each letter corresponds to a different sound in the language. A word that is written in the phonetic alphabet will always be pronounced exactly the way that it is written, since the same sound is always represented by the same letter, e. g. /kæt/, /sın/, /smaıl/. The phonetic alphabet consists of the letters of the Latin alphabet plus a number of special letters, diacritics and other symbols. Words written this way are in phonetic transcription.
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1. /b/ 2. /d/ 3. /f/ 4. /ý/ 5. /h/ 6. /k/ 7. /l/ 8. /m/ 9. /n/ 10. /p/ 11. /r/ 12. /s/ 13. /t/ 14. /v/ 15. /w/ 16. /j/ 17. /z/ 18. /ð/ 19. /q/ 20. /ò/ 21. /½/ 22. /tò/ 23. /d½/ 24. /ŋ/ |
bee, rib, able donkey, ready, bad feet, photo, after, knife gift, England, wig Halifax, when, behind ketch, beckon, become Lebanon, hello, little Madrid, woman, some Niagara, animal, sun Paris, happy, cup right, marry see, possible, place take, Manhattan, night Vatican, never, leave word, when, quick, away yes, Houston, million zoo, easy, Elizabeth this, Netherlands, breathe thought, Athens, month Lancashire, station, English measure, television, beige Chatham, picture, watch Justin, religion, page bungalow, think, long |
Vowels |
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monophthongs |
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1. /i/ 2. /ı/ 3. /e/ 4. /æ/ 5. /з:/ 6. /\/ 7. /α:/ 8. /u:/ 9. /¬/ 10. /Ã/ 11. // 12. /¿:/ |
Egypt, see, read, money Chile, Greenwich, minute, wishes Cheshire, Texas, yes, bed Badgered, Chatham, fat, sad Berlin, Serbia, early, were, bird, hurt Caucasus, about, the, a France, Prague, car, father, hard Liverpool, Waterloo, you, boot Brooklyn, Hindustan, book, should Dublin, Kentucky, Durham, coverage Florida, Monaco, Oxford, stop, not Albany, Baltic, nor, order,bored |
diphthongs |
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13. /eı/ 14. /\¬/ 15. /aı/ 16. /a¬/ 17. /¿/ 18. /e\/ 19. /i\/ 20. /¬\/ |
baker, rail, day, great cold, told, most, folk, roll bind, miner, type loud, plough, drought, cow oil, Negroid, enjoy air, bear, fare, fair, there, care beer, mere, theatre, media, appear tour, fuel, during, steward |
triphthongs |
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21. /eı\/ 22. /\¬\/ 23. /aı\/ 24. /a¬\/ 25. /oı\/ |
layer, crayon, conveyer, greyer lower, yellower, mower giant, dryer, diagram, dialect our, hour, sour, coward, giaour employer, annoyance, buoyant |
Exercise 1.
Прочитайте текст, записанный в транскрипции, и постарайтесь правильно записать его (spell it).
/′lз:nıŋ t\ ′spik \ ′frın læŋýwıd½ ′fluəntli | ən wı′¶a¬t ən ′æks\nt | ′ıznət ′izi | ın ′m\¬st edju′keı∫\n\l ′sıst\mz | ′stjud\nts spend ′meni jı\z ′stÃdiıŋ ýr\mætık\l ′rulz | b\t ðeı ′d\unt get m\t∫ \v \ ′t∫αns t\ ′spik | \r′aıvıŋ ın \ ′nju k\ntri | k\n bi \ fr\′streıtıŋ ık′sp\ri\nts | \l′ð\¬ ðeı meı bi ′eıbl t\ ′rid \n ′raıt veri ′wel | ðeı ′f\n ′faınd ð\t ðeı ′kÃnt \nd\′stænd w\t pipl ′seı t\ ðem/
Exercise 2.
Пользуясь орфоэпическим словарем английского языка, запишите следующие предложения в транскрипции и прочитайте их.
When I arrived in England I thought I knew English. After I’d been here an hour I realised that I did not understand one word.
In the first week I picked up a tolerable working knowledge of the language and the next seven years convinced me gradually but thoroughly that I would never know it really well, let alone perfectly.
My only consolation being that nobody speaks English perfectly.
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language.
You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.
English Consonants
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bilabial |
labiodental |
dental |
alveolar |
postalveolar |
palatal |
velar |
glottal |
plosive |
p b |
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t d |
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k g |
Ö |
nasal |
m |
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n |
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ŋ |
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tap or flap |
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fricative |
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f v |
q ð |
s z |
ò ½ |
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h |
affricate |
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tò d½ |
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approximant |
w |
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r |
j |
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lateral approximant |
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