Newly Compiled International Phonetic Alphabet Rapid Pronunciation Method - (Revised Edition)

Author: Zheng Shiheng
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Linguists believe that the phoneme is the smallest unit of language. However, through four decades of teaching practice, the author boldly challenges this theory, that although the phoneme is the smallest unit of language, imitating the smallest unit of language is the syllable. To learn a language well, one must first become familiar with its basic syllables. Based on this theory, this book adopts the method of phonetic exercises, through direct pronunciation of phonetics, synthetic pronunciation, jumping pronunciation, reading phonetic words, and discrimination training, to cultivate students' ability to use the International Phonetic Alphabet correctly. Due to the novel and unique pronunciation method, the book has sold over 400,000 copies since its first edition. To the textbook reform, the newly published "Rapid Pronunciation of the International Phonetic Alphabet" not only adopts new phonetic symbols but also completely updates the test questions and consolidation exercises to match the current new textbooks.