Do native English speakers learn how to pronounce a word by phonetics? Hello,there all. In Chinese, we have pinyin. And using pinyin to know how a word sounds is the way native Chinese speaker use.

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Do native English speakers learn how to pronounce a word by phonetics? Hello,there all. In Chinese, we have pinyin. And using pinyin to know how a word sounds is the way native Chinese speaker use. But, in English. Many native English have no idea about what is phonetics. So, how do native English speakers know how a word sounds? And, if learning phonetics is necessary for learning English, how could I do a self-study in phonetics. Thanks

Apr 2, 2013 8:53 PM

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There is a famous reading program for children called "Hooked on Phonics." They have many products you could try.

April 9, 2013

the book "eats, shoots & leaves" by Lynne Truss p. 15" There was a comical moment in the fifth year when our English teacher( author's) demanded, " But you have had lessons in grammar?" and we all looked shifty, as if the fault was ours. We had been thought Latin, French and German grammar; but English grammar was something we felt we were expected to infer from our reading -which is doubtless why I came a cropper over "its" and "it's".

April 3, 2013

They don't study photetics, they just imitate, repeating after their mother. More then that, they don't study grammar as we study it. The English don't have a slightest idea what Present perfect, Participle, Adjective or Pronouns are. I am not joking. In Russia we have to learn the spelling of the most difficult word and write dictations at school. I don't know about that in England.

April 2, 2013

We learn pronunciation simply by listening.

April 2, 2013

Usually Mum and Dad talk to their children, or in the rare cases when they can't somebody else will. Phonetics needs reading, which is a skill acquired later in life.

April 3, 2013

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