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Phonetic Symbols
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Zora
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That�s okay. the rambling I mean... I was a bit "heated" myself yesterday. Just tired and in serious need of a holiday. We work all through the holiday and I am pulling more hours than normal. About ten classes a day..  I usually do 7 at the most. We even work Saturday mornings... so you can see why I am a bit..."irritable" - or I seem that way at least to myself...
But anyway, phonetic symbols might be Ok when the students mother tongue is another language with another alphabet like the Chinese or Russia... also I�d like to point out that for Japanese and Chinese students probably find the symbols easy to work with since there own language is sort of "symbol" based.
But for a language that uses the Western alphabet, I think teaching the symbols is quite unnecessary. If a teacher wants to use them for their own use that�s fine. It�s like goodnesses pointed out. If they are going on to teach or something similar, they will have ample time to study the phonetic alphabet and all it�s variations.
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31 Dec 2008
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