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in reply to a message by Lumia
I agree with you here, I had to study IPA transcriptions in 8th grade in English class and I assume that Germany is not the only country in the world that expects high school students to deal with IPA in order to learn a foreign language (Thanks for giving me the English name for it, btw. We call it "Lautschrift" and our English teacher used to say "phonetic symbols").
Concerning [e]: I think you're right here, too. The French sound of 'é' also exists in German and many other languages which is probably why I did not use 'AY' for transcription. It is a totally different sound to me. That and the fact that I had been corrected for using 'AY' for [e] before.
~~~~~°§°Johanna°§°~~~~~
Concerning [e]: I think you're right here, too. The French sound of 'é' also exists in German and many other languages which is probably why I did not use 'AY' for transcription. It is a totally different sound to me. That and the fact that I had been corrected for using 'AY' for [e] before.
~~~~~°§°Johanna°§°~~~~~
This message was edited 8/30/2009, 11:30 AM
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