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A Singer’s Golden Tool: International Phonetic Alphabet

September 24, 2011 by Myra Vassian

Blue Card with IPA
Found this at http://obsessionist.net/

Thanks to student Joanne, who asked for online help in learning IPA, or the International Phonetics Alphabet– a crucial tool in being able to accurately (and therefore confidently!) pronounce text in any language for singing or otherwise.  I highly recommend that you check out the following links–know that any time invested in learning this skill will pay off in a big way!

This is a video from Peter Ladefoged’s “A Course in Phonetics”

Sample of Xray Articulation

Here’s the link to the same author’s lessons and exercises for learning IPA:

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html

If you’d like to buy the whole course on CD-Rom, here’s a link for that:

[amazon_link id=”1428231269″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]A Course In Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged[/amazon_link]

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    […] A Singer's Golden Tool: International Phonetic Alphabet Thanks to student Joanne, who asked for online help in learning IPA, or the International Phonetics Alphabet– a crucial tool in being able to accurately (and therefore confidently!) pronounce text in any language for singing or […]

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