Learn to transcribe spoken English using the International Phonetic Alphabet found in good dictionaries:
Self-correcting (interactive) tests to practise English vowel and consonant sounds
- Sounds and spelling - match the phonemic script with the corresponding English word
- Sounds and spelling - match the phoneme with the vowel sound in the first syllable of the word
- Sounds and spelling - select the consonant phoneme / θ / or / ð / contained within the word
- Sounds and spelling - select the consonant phoneme /ʃ/ , /ʧ/ or /ʤ/ contained within the word
- Sounds and spelling - match the vowel sound in the first syllable of the word with the phonemes / ɪ / , / i: / or / e /
- Sounds and spelling - identify whether the initial consonant sound of the word is / g / , / j / or the voiced postalveolar affricate / ʤ /
- Torpenhow Hill near Plymouth, England means
"Hillhillhill Hill." - from Saxon tor, Celtic pen, Scandinavian how,
Middle English hill.
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog" uses every letter of the alphabet!
- The most used letter in the English alphabet is "E", and
"Q" is the least used!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the
most definitions.
- The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am".
- "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
- The only word in the English language that has four sets of double letters in
row is balloonneer.
- The word "Queue" is the only word in the English language that is
still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
