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It’s really worth knowing the phonetic symbols and their sounds. Can you ‘decipher’ these common words written phonetically?
These pronunciation exercises are based on a southern British accent / RP (please see notes on main page)
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Answers
1. English
2. chocolate
3. Thursday
4. daughter
5. clothes
6. comfortable
7. orange
8. foreign
Love this exercise! Thanks for sharing it. My guess:
English
Chocolate
Thursday
dirty
clothes
comfortable
orange
foreign
Here is my guess
There are three I don’t know :
English
Chocolate
Thursday
—-
—-
Comfortable
—–
Foreign