IPA 

Our aim is to promote the teaching and learning of English phonetics in Hongkong. We provide high quality English phonetics (IPA) and pronunciation courses for people at all levels of spoken English.

The course "Practical English Phonetics and Phonology" is one of our most popular choices. We are very proud to say that the quality and popularity of this course has been key to establishing the good reputation of IPA (HK). Mr Derek Kwok, the Course Lecturer, is an experienced phonetics educator with over 10 years teaching experience in English phonetics. His innovative teaching techniques and moderate sense of humour make the complex phonetics principles all the easier to understand.

The courses "English Phonetics Classes for Students" and "Practical English Phonetics and Phonology for Teachers" have provided students and teachers of English in HK with a better channel through which to understand the most important theories and key skills in pronunciation and many other features of spoken English.

As this Web Site comes into existence, we can now offer our students of phonetics with continuous learning and practice support. The pages under our "Club News" section are especially dedicated towards this goal. We believe that through this Web Site, the students of IPA (HK) will be able to further enrich their knowledge of English phonetics and pronunciation even after they have completed our courses.

 

Today's selected word:

thou, thousand
1. thou pronoun, 你 (you) 舊式
2. thou noun (口語;簡化) = thousand

讀音注意:
英語中的兩個舌齒音(dental) /θ/ /ð/, 是香港人普遍的發音難題. 由於廣東話沒有這兩個音, 對我們來說並不容易, 而且很多人自小便把/θ/, /ð/錯讀成/f/, /d/, 長大後要改正便覺困難. 另一方面, 我們很難單憑TH字母得知應讀/θ/還是/ð/音. 以thousand為例, 大多數香人會把th部份錯讀成/d/音, 就算部份懂得發舌齒音的, 把thousand的th讀成/ð/音亦不正確. 應該發/θ/才對. 請細心聆聽以上示範, 留意2(thou)及3(thousand)的第一個音是相同的.

-Derek Kwok
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