![]() ![]() Stop: a consonant sound where the airflow is stopped completely by the mouth and then sharply released. It can tend to make a letter sound harsher when pronounced. Voiceless / unvoiced: a voiceless or unvoiced sound is one where the vocal cords do not vibrate, thus making the sound very whispery and without a pitch. ![]() This is the kind of sound most people associate with regular talking or singing. ![]() Voiced: a voiced sound is a sound where the vocal cords vibrate, thus producing some sort of pitch. Since you might be unfamiliar with some of the terms used to describe the sounds, here are some definitions you might find useful: Most are fundamental to English pronunciation regardless of accent. The first set of symbols presented here represents consonant sounds. However, for our purposes with English, these phonetic symbols can definitely come in handy if you’re looking to improve your pronunciation. It is not a perfect system, since its details can only be so fine, and nuances like tone and stress are often overlooked in IPA transcription, which can be a bit of a problem with tonal languages like Mandarin and Vietnamese. ![]()
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