# Learn New Language

Alphabets
History
Similarities

difference between a letter and a character

# IPA - Internation Phonetic Albhabet

Transcribing speech, How to write sounds!

sudo apt install espeak-ng-espeak
speak --ipa "Hello $(whoami) $(hostname --fqdn)"
echo "Hello Avi Mehenwal" | speak --ipa -m -X -v en+anika

IPA	examples
/p/	Peanut Pencil Please
/b/	Big Bad Baby
/t/	Take Two Turtles
/d/	Doughnuts Don't Disagree
/k/	Can Cat Cacle
/g/	Giggles Girl Gargoyles
/t ʃ/	Change Chewy Watches
//	Ship

Vowels
consonents
syllables
IPA Letters
- Voice + Place + Manner
- Esh
- Voiceless postalveolar fricative
utterances and prosody
- allophones & phonemes
How to learn accents? Learn IPA
Features
Openess - of jaw
- sounds a, e
Backness - of toungue
12 Place of articulation for consonents
- Which part is causing the obsttruction
- fish - /fi/
- using lower lip and upper teeth
Manner of Articulation
Voicing /s/ - voiceless /z/ - voiced
f and v are very similar. F is voiceless, v is voiced

bilabial: using both upper and lower lips.

sound	examples
`[m]`	man
`[p]`	pan
`[b]`	ban
`[w]`	water

Labiodental: Lower lip contacts upper teeth

sound	examples
f	fish
v	van

Dental: Tip of toungue touches upper teeth
Alveolar: toungue + back on upper teeth

sound	examples
t	town
d	dog
s	sun
z	zoo
n	nail
r	run
l	launch

Post Alveolar: sha, shine, vision. Hindi word tapu
Palatal: Body of the toungue raised to the hard pallet. /j/ yes. Only one sound
Velar: Back of toungue to soft pallet. 2 sounds in english.

sound	examples
k	king
g	garden

uvular: back of the toungue to uvular. None in english. French [r]
glottal: point of contact back at glottal. English has 2

sound	examples
h	home
?	uh-oh

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# Chinese

ASking a zodiac sign is a polite way of asking your age!

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