Phonetics:

This is a study of the sounds of speech in their primary function, which is to

make vocal signs that refer to different things sound different. The phonemes of
a particular language are those minimal distinct units of sound that can
distinguish meaning in that language. In English, the p sound is a phoneme
because it is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference of meaning if,
for example, it replaces the initial sound of bill, till, or dill, making the word pill.
The vowel sound of pill is also a phoneme because its distinctness in sound
makes pill, which means one thing, sound different from pal, which means
another. Two different sounds, reflecting distinct articulatory activities, may
represent two phonemes in one language but only a single phoneme in another.
Thus phonetic r and l are distinct phonemes in English, whereas these sounds
represent a single phoneme in Japanese, just as ph and p in pie and spy,
respectively, represent a single phoneme in English although these sounds are
phonetically distinct.
Consonants(24)
Short
vowels(07)

Long vowels(05)

  
Diphthongs (double
vowel sounds)(08)

 
Mispronounced Words:
Viva-voce bury Alumni strategic Bona fide
Apropos Honest learned Colonel Petty Pear
Tomb Preposition Surface Receipt Bargain Creature
Feather Debt Query Queue Novice sociology
manual mutual conveyance allergy career S Sachet
Gibbous (of the moon with the bright part bigger than a
semi-circle but smaller than a circular)
IPA Sounds:
American Phonetic

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