Phonemic vs Phonetic Transcription

Teachers and learners of English pronunciation encounter two types of transcription in their studies: phonemic and phonetic.

Dictionaries use phonemic transcriptions, but these leave out important details that are not included in phonemic alphabets.

In this lesson I explore the difference between the two and look at their relative advantages and drawbacks for learners.

The link for the English phonemic chart (44 sounds):

The video features the full International Phonetic Alphabet by the International Phonetic Association.

#phonetics #englishpronunciation #phonology

[AnaJúliaCampanhan]

thank you so much. i'm a brazilian, have english as my second language and i'm now majoring in english teaching but it's everything online and i can't always reach for the teachers like i would in live class. i'm surely going to come back to your channel more times, for your way of explaining is clean and non distracting! may God bless you all❤

[RobinsonKrankso]

I love these videos, it's so much easier to learn with this animation style versus being distracted by a talking head with bad audio.

[SelfRealization]

Super cool. Hope you put up more examples on how to read/write phonetic transcriptions

[sailbyzantium]

Wow! So glad to have found you. Thank you, thank you!

[ricardofilgueira]

Best video about the subject. Great job, thanks!!

[tzusndacc]

I Appreciate it! these are so confusing and today they finally make sense to me!

[KureReuben-mc]

Thank you so much, please I still need some details on this phonetic and phonemic transcription

[peiyanli]

Where can I get a dictionary of the phonetic transcriptions for standard British standard American English?

[ricardofilgueira]

So, most dictionaries claim they have phonetic transcription, but they should call it “phonemic transcription”, right? Why does it happen?

[available_handle]

Correct me if I'm wrong. There are 330 million Americans in the USA. It seems that 300 million of them are able to speak the same language. On the other hand the are 60 million British people and wherever you go in this not that big country you can hear practically a different language. What's going on?