From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
> Today I got to thinking, why don't foreign language textbooks use the IPA
> as a pronunciation guide? The usual system that I've seen, where the book
> will spell the words using English spelling rules, is unreliable because
> sometimes a native English speaker can't even pronounce a new English word
> correctly without consulting a friend or a dictionary.
One of my big peeves! Arrgh!
> But my real question is this: Does anyone know of a textbook on learning a
> foreign language (any will do, really) that uses the IPA rather than
> pseudo-English?
The only language book I have that uses IPA is "Hungarian: Verbs and Essentials
of Grammar". I think, but am not sure, that the other Verbs and Essentials
books uses it too.
*Muke!
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