Can anyone tell me how common is knowledge of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)? I had a video call with choir students at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brasil 🇧🇷. Almost all of the

Colin Hurkett

Can anyone tell me how common is knowledge of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)? I had a video call with choir students at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brasil 🇧🇷. Almost all of them knew IPA, but I wonder if this was partly because they were singers and singers are more commonly expected to learn IPA.

Aug 11, 2023 10:16 PM

Answers · 5

Not common at all, it's mostly just people who study Linguistics and some other language nerds. I didn't even know that choir singers knew about it, but it does make sense.

August 12, 2023

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