Video on Phonetics Part - 1
Channel: anita godara
Date: 23/08/2020

This video is on Phonetics and pronunciation for the learners of English as a foreign language in general and particularly for the students of both UG and PG .

Phonetics is the science of pronunciation . It can be useful for people learning English because one of the most difficult things about the language is the spelling and pronunciation . English is not very phonetic and as a result the same letters are often pronounced in many different ways in different words . The IPA helps by providing away to write words as they are pronounced . The normal alphabet only has 26 characters but there are 44 different sounds that are used to pronounce words . As well as that most words in English originate from other languages like Greek , Latin and French to name just a few and in many cases the language of origin influences how the word is pronounced . 
 The IPA provides a symbol ( phoneme  ) for each sound so the correct pronunciation can be written or printed in dictionaries .