"I think the biggest thing I noticed is those vowel sounds that are either missing or substituted with existing Russian or Ukrainian sounds."
"The schwa is the lazier sound and it shows up everywhere in English."
"Learning to recognize stress in the phonemic script is a really good place to start."
"French has a very sing-songy type of inflection when it's spoken through um same as Italian and Spanish they tend to have a natural melodic to it."
"So we see French loanwords in English like gentle, following our hard-G soft-G rule that we’re taught in elementary school."
"Javanese has 6 vowels, a e i o u and ə, with /a/ being pronounced [ɔ] at the end of words or before another [ɔ]."
"Once you learn the letter pairs and the different sounds, it's like learning another language."
"What is a formant and how does it change your voice so much?"
"I love having a linguistic quirk such as symmetry or repeated consonant sounds."
"Spanish pronunciation is much easier to learn as a second language because Spanish is a phonetic language, meaning if you can see it, you can say it."
"Is the S or the C silent in the word 'scent'?"
"My impression, although I haven’t found a quote stating this, is that Gimson, in opposition to Jones, wanted to make all the vowels look as different from each other as possible."
"Every letter makes a sound and P says, great!"
"Every letter makes a sound, and S says, 'ssss'."
"The next type of linking is assimilation and this is when two sounds come together to create a new sound."
"...the Welsh language, which is a phonetic language, has Unique Sounds developed from the Celtic language."
"Phonological awareness is an umbrella term that includes identifying and manipulating parts of spoken language."
"If we think about that phoneme, it is a voiced linguadental fricative."
"Hard K sounds are the most Easy Sounds to pronounce in most cultures. That's why it's Coca-Cola, that's why it's Kodak."
"Still, the phrasing used when describing them suggests that merging these two phonemes is probably fine."
"I think that these spellings represent the northern front vowel we've been looking for."
"A great way to just introduce letter sounds."
"The ability to read the IPA is actually really useful for anyone who's interested in languages or linguistics."
"Learning how to use the language, learning the sounds, because if you do all this without these sounds how do you think the language would come up?"
"These are pretty easy because you just basically added D sound on the end."
"Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words."
"Phonological awareness is the umbrella that phonemic awareness falls under."
"One of the things I like about standard pronunciation is that it creates a different sound for every vowel and consonant."
"I hope that this was helpful to you. If you didn't know this information, don't feel bad I didn't either for a long time but it can really help our kids be successful with dividing up multi-syllabic words and reading them."
"Numbers also have feminine forms marked with a 't,' which doesn't always occur. So, for example, in Hebrew and also in Syriac, sometimes instead of the 't,' we only have an 'r' vowel ending."
"Proto-Semitic had two glottal consonants like the Arabic 'hamza' or Hebrew 'aleph' and two pharyngeals 'ah' and 'ha.'"
"Phonetic IPA: Forget about consonants and vowels as a concept, now we're talking about vocoids and contoids."
"The runes are quite different and actually distinguish E from YAH and OOH from W."
"Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spelling."
"Homophones are distinct words which have the same pronunciation."
"Canadian raising is something we find across Canada."
"The nature of poetry we often misunderstand; we're used to poetry that's designed around its phonetic design, its phonemes."
"A lot of English vowels, especially in the south, are actually diphthongs, meaning they're a combination of two different sounds."
"We are able to reconstruct quite well 16th, 17th, 18th century British English at least from the southeast because many phoneticians at the time were actually writing and describing it in quite a lot of detail."
"There's every reason to think that this is a fairly recent feature and the British situation was always 't' is the older one."
"Phonetics was about the mechanics of how sounds are articulated; now we're going to start thinking about how sounds are put together in languages to form words."
"A phoneme is a perceptually distinct unit of sound which can appear as different phonetic variants in speech."
"An allophone is a particular sound that realizes a phoneme."
"A minimal pair is two words that differ in only one sound."
"In order to understand the language, you absolutely have to understand where the phic vowel lengths are."
"The poetry and the prose of ancient Greek is structured around these phic length differences in the vowels."
"If you have a child that has never gone through any type of phonetic program, you can jump them in to Level A and move quickly through the program."
"Each hiragana character represents one syllable sound, so every time you see one specific character, you know that it will always sound the same way."
"These five characters are the five vowel sounds in Japanese."
"Phonetically, the word phonetically should be spelled phonetically."
"If they don't understand how sounds are actually blended together, they're not going to be able to make a word out of it."
"Our tongue goes up, it taps behind the teeth."
"We want to make sure we bring in the phonetic high-frequency words from those lists and we explicitly teach them within the lesson plan."
"Spanish is a mostly vowel-oriented tongue, but English is very focused and very exact on the right pronunciation of the consonants."
"Letter 'R' has two different sounds in Spanish... when 'R' is at the beginning of the word, it is a hard 'R'... when 'R' is not at the beginning of the word and it's not double, it is a soft 'R'."
"Unstressed syllables often become reduced speech, which means that they become so short that their pronunciation actually changes."
"Did you know there are over 7,000 homophones in the English language?"
"It's a logical language because it's phonetic, so it makes perfect sense."
"American dialects are more likely to be rhotic and have 'r' pronounced in all positions in a word."
"The Ta language has somewhere around 200 different sounds, the most of any language in the entire world."
"Unlike the Egyptians or Mesopotamians, the Phoenicians developed a phonetic alphabet consisting of 22 letters."
"English is not phonetic, doesn't work the same way."
"In theory, there are thousands of possible vowels you could make."
"Contrastive sounds are sounds such that the difference between them is useful for signaling a difference in meaning of a word."
"We use features. So for instance, whatever vowel we have adds the property of nasalization before nasal consonants."
"Alliteration is starting words with the same sound in a sentence."
"Hiragana is the basic Japanese alphabet... it represents all the sounds in the Japanese language."
"Words like 'hurt' and 'hots' can be confused easily if you can't produce the ER sound."
"Long and short vowels, for example, 'apple' and 'ape' or 'like' and 'lick'."
"It is not by simply repeating these sounds over and over; you need to understand how your mouth works."
"People got so used to saying 'iced cream' quicker and quicker, we eventually naturally dropped the 'Ed' at the end."
"Mastering the phonograms is really key to being able to spell."
"Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word."
"Every syllable must have a vowel."
"If the syllable ends in a vowel, then it doesn't have anything closing it off; then it gets to say its name."
"Encoding requires complete analysis of the internal details of a word's phonemes and morphemes; that's why it has an impact on reading."
"If a child knows how to rhyme, it will help them form words better."
"German is phonetic, it has pronunciation rules and it always follows them."
"I had no idea that shorthand was based on the sounds of words."
"In English, there are only seven diphthongs."
"She sells seashells by the seashore; that's why that's typical, right? Because they're sibilants."
"It's called the Northern Cities Shift, and it may be the biggest change in English pronunciation anywhere since the Great Vowel Shift."
"Homophones are words that have different spellings but they sound the same."
"If there are minimal pairs with the sounds in question then you know right off the bat that those sounds are different phonemes."
"Voicing assimilation is very common across languages; sounds can either become unvoiced or voiced in order to match the sounds that they're next to."
"Simple vowels are vowels that you can essentially hold without moving your tongue, lips, or anything for a period of time."
"You can describe every single vowel with these four different properties: height, frontness, roundedness, and tenseness."
"Narmer's name is represented by a catfish which gives you the sound 'nog' and chisel which gives you 'mer'."
"The International Phonetic Alphabet represents all the phonemes in the English language."
"The International Phonetic Alphabet chart contains all the features of the symbols which define the common sounds across languages."
"If you have been paying careful attention, you even know how to pronounce all of the sounds in all the languages of the world."
"Now I know how the letters sound, so when I see the letters, I can say them out loud."
"A vowel gets nasalized in the environment before a nasal segment."
"You can be 100% certain that the distribution of any two phones is contrastive if you can find a minimal pair for those phones."
"If the distribution is complementary, then the phones are allophones of the same phoneme."
"It's fascinating that a lot of people from different parts of the world depending on their culture and upbringing cannot make certain sounds with their voices."
"We want to kind of shift away from teaching our students to learn words by sight... but more using their phonetic skills."
"A sound wall is very different than a word wall... we are teaching explicitly, connecting the sounds to the spelling."
"If they know their phonetic sounds, they're gonna be far more successful in building these words."
"Bob books focus on two things: your phonetic sounds and your sight words."
"Arabic is largely phonetic, which means words are pronounced exactly like they're written."
"...the bits that we use to create sounds, the simple bits, the tongue...the lips...the velum or the soft palate...the larynx."
"Every Chinese character has a sound which is written in pinyin."
"We can isolate each sound in a word and then blend them together."
"Soil, say soil to yourselves. Soil. And then I want you to think about whether you hear the sound in soil."
"They teach the sounds in like a phonetic order rather than alphabetical order so that they can start learning to read actual words very quickly."
"Greek and English syllabification is very, very similar."
"Superb, sand castle does indeed start with the 's' sound."
"The Soundex matches words that sound alike, and ignores case, embedded blanks, and punctuation."
"This kind of really layered correspondence between sounds in a set of languages shows that these languages are related."
"The printed letter isn't as important as the sound that's in those words."
"We have to move from those word walls to something like this, organizing by sound as opposed to just the first letter."
"The author prepared a table that reflects Equiano's dilemma and impossible choices of alphabets in describing the sounds of his native tongue."
"These points are called the formant frequencies F1, F2, F3."
"Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter's bitter."
"I love how language sounds, how letters sound in different languages."