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The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of symbols that represent every sound in
every language. American English IPA notation uses about 50 symbols.
This window has several parts that will help you. Click on "voice."
These are the voiced consonants: These are the voiceless consonants
VOWELS
Every vowel in English is either a monopthong (it has one sound)...
...or a diphthong (it has two sounds that are pronounced together).
If you click on the monophthongs, you will get this screen: It will ask you to chose between three
categories:
FRONT:
CENTRAL:
BACK:
If you click on ANY of the sounds, you can see exactly how it is formed in American English.
There are two PLAY buttons that will animate the screen.