It can really help you improve your pronunciation if you know the phonetic symbols and the sounds they represent. You don’t need to worry about learning to write them just to recognise them.
Can you decipher these 10 tennis-related words?
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Answers
1. clay
2. racket
3. forehand
4. ace
5. fault
6. umpire
7. deuce
8. advantage
9. tie-break
10. tournament