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:

new, sew, chew
讀音注意:
以上三個字均有相同的字母ew,但所產生的音素卻不相同,分別為juː, əʊ, uː。特別注意chew的讀音為/tʃuː/,與choose /tʃuːz/減去z音相同;很多香港人卻把chew錯讀成粵語的「超」(tsiu1) 。

2013年中學TSA英文科考試有有以下一題,學生要從英詩中選出押韻(rhyme)的一對字例:

Which two words from the peom rhyme?
A. never and not
B. plate and now
C. chewed and food
D. none of the above

註解: 押韻(Rhyme)是指兩個字最後的元音vowel(及最後輔音consonant) 是相同的。chewed /tʃuːd/與food /fuːd/同樣以/-uːd/音素結尾音,因此答案是C。

- Derek Kwok
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