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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by girzel on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:16PM (#21588598)
Living in China, I was curious to discover that many people there were actually pretty familiar with IPA, I assume it's taught as part of advanced language learning, to cope with all the very different sounds in other languages. On several occasions people expressed great puzzlement that I had no idea how most IPA symbols were pronounced.
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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by yorwba on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:33PM (#21589337)
I'm pretty sure IPA is the de facto standard for conveying English pronunciation in textbooks around the world, not just in China.

What do foreign language textbooks in English-speaking countries use to teach pronunciation?

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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by Geimfari on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:07PM (#21590485)
Almost all textbooks and dictionaries use their own transcription key, I haven't come across plain old IPA in language learning textbooks, only in linguistics textbooks.
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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by usr1106 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:15AM (#21592050)
IPA was in use in every German high school book for English or French in the 1980s. I have no reason to believe it has changed, but I haven't used any since then.

Using own systems I have seen in very naive tourist guides and in text books by English speaking publishers.

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