Re: OT: Foreign Language Books using IPA
| From: | Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 1, 2002, 17:08 |
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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 13:18:58 +0400 Pavel Iosad scripsit:
> Believe it or not, in Russia English is taught with the IPA
> transcription in the majority of schools from elementary level
upwards.
> The students are taught the pronunciation and the IPA symbols at the
> same time, so at least they know how to transcribe English!
I can sincerely add that not only English. I have a good number of
teach-yourself book published in Moscow, Leningrad (St.Petersburg) and
Kiev, that use IPA wildly (sorry, widely :-)) for French, German,
Swedish whatever.
Yitzik
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