Phonetics - Consonants: Crash Course Linguistics #8
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Phonetics - Consonants: Crash Course Linguistics #8

B1IntermediateNovember 8, 202616 min
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  • Language learning

The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. Lucky for us, linguists have tools to help understand and communicate speech sounds. In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, we’ll begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds, by talking about consonants, and we’ll also get an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA. Want even more linguistics? Check out the Lingthusiasm podcast, hosted by the writers of Crash Course Linguistics: https://lingthusiasm.com/ Check out Monstrum on Storie...

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Hi, I'm Taylor and welcome to Crash Course Linguistics. Spelling can be a mess. Take the letters O-U-G-H. They're pronounced differently in tough, cough, though, through, bow, and brought.

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The letters don't always match the sounds they represent. What's more, people can pronounce the same words in different ways. There's a difference between I am going to get you and I'm gonna get ya. If we want to talk about the different ways people can pronounce the same spellings

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or which sounds exist in different languages, it's useful to have a more precise understanding of how language sounds work. The study of speech sounds is called phonetics,

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