Having a notation for sounds helps you to understand and speak foreign languages, because you can think of what someone is saying in IPA and not in some flawed English transcription.
Very helpful when learning languages that have sounds that aren't in a language you already speak, because your brain tends to map those sounds to similar sounds you already know.
Like how English speakers can't distinguish between French [u] and [ou] (/y/ and /u/ in IPA). Even if you can't hear it you can read about how to articulate it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alpha...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_(disambiguation)
If there’s a long list, generally it will be organized by context.
The script was created to be simple. As the inventor, King Sejong said: "A wise man can acquaint himself with them (the letters of Hangul) before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days."
Anybody here knows what I am talking about?
Thank you so much.
"P" is an "r" sound (rho), "П" is a "p" (pi), etc.
Does Enlgish routinely localize foreign alphabet names? If so, it's bad practice. I believe no one in the world learns English alphabet pronouncing it arbitrary, and not as /ˈeɪ/ /ˈbiː/ /ˈsiː/.
I know UK (bee-ta) and USA (bay-ta) pronounce Beta differently but am slightly ashamed to say I don't know how modern Greeks pronounce it. I understand it's derived from Hebrew's Beth, though?
Language is a constant curiosity.
For centuries, and probably still today, the language taught at school was Ancient Greek -- that's where I learnt the pronunciations. I don't know if pi had a similar change in Greek pronunciation.
All the time. In terms of pronunciation, the English love adding extra vowels and elongating others when pronouncing foreign words, especially names.
A classic example, which even the English are aware of and like to laugh about:
"Una cerveza por favor" will turn into "Ooona cervezaa pour favor"
Note that the Latin alphabet is pronounced inconsistently all across Europe. I'm sure any 14 year old can precisely spell their name out loud in English, since they're going to be examined on it, but later in life people forget the difference between their own language and English, especially the vowels.
For example when speaking English, I find Danish people will mix up E and I if I spell a word with English pronunciation, and Danish people speaking English will often use the Danish pronunciation of J, K, Q, Y (roughly yoll, co, coo, oo).
Sure, I wasn't able to write and read fluently in 2 hours, but I least I didn't need to take a look on a table anymore.
I started to write my personal notes in cyrilic. It's very fun and kinda cryptographic.
It tends to be hard-to-impossible to pronounce correctly for native English speakers.