IPA Learning Centre

Our aim is to promote the teaching and learning of English phonetics in Hongkong. Our teaching centre, the IPA Learning Centre, is an Education Bureau registered school located in Kowloon. 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:

cleanse
動詞. 清洗;使清潔

讀音注意:
cleanse /klenz/ 的讀音不等於把clean/kliːn/拼上se/s/音便成!
不少英文字內的字母組合讀音是沒有規律的。
例如詞末-se字母組合,有些字讀/-s/ (e.ɡ. base/beɪs/, curse/kɜːs/, defense/dɪˈfens/); 另一些讀/-z/ (e.ɡ. ease/iːz/, chose/tʃəʊz/, erase/ɪˈreɪz/ )。

由此可見,依賴字母拼音,不易提升我們的英語發音水平。


- Derek Kwok (郭 豪)
E.D.530468