Phonemic chart

The app was finished in 2020. What are the option to open the file? FLASH PLAYER

Hi, is the chart still unavailable for MAC OS users? 

Hi the gven phonemic chart which i have just downloaded...is quite a good technological invention to learn and teach sounds of English language. However, i will very humbly point out that it is missing one diphthong--combination of "oo" and "schwa" sound as in words "poor" and "dual"...which will also make it a total of 20 vowel phoneme sounds in English language. please add it too...a humble invocation. best regards Sadaf Fatima

I can't download it as I use a Google Chromebook. Please update software as most students/teachers have access to Chromebook !!

The most useless ever,,, this is not helpful. Many are hypocrite that this is helpful in pronunciation. second language are doing a mimic sounds.. like an infant do. This kind of chart had created for additional burden of usless language sounds. In reality this is USESLESS. If you understand the mimic sounds you know what I mean.

Thank you very much British Council Am so happy after a very long search I finally found a site like this where I can learn phonemes. Sorry to bore you with this...I have a passion for phonemes I want to learn it and be able to pronounce ever single English word correctly like the first English speakers so please my able British Council I want to ask if there is a way I can download this phenomic chart on my Android phone so that I can be able to learn phonemes on the go anywhere I am. Pleeeeeeeeeeease help me I really need it on my phone. the one here in this page: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/TEphonemic.zip is only compatible with PC. Thank you in anticipation of your favourable response

I'm curious why this chart doesn't have a diphthong for /ʊə/ The one Adrian Underhill uses on the seminar videos does. I became aware of his videos through the British Council, so I am wondering why there is a difference there. Is it not really regarded as a true diphthong? For example, in "pure" /'pjʊə/ is this seen as two separate syllables? Anyway, many other phonemic charts do have /ʊə/ so I was a but confused by the difference.

It used to be that I could use the chart directly in the classroom (live from the Internet, that is), and click on it to hear the sounds etc... It now seems to be unavailable (I wonder why that is, it's really a shame), and I tried to download some of the stuff, but to avail although I use a MacBookPro and even went onto I-Tunes. Can you adise on the procedures ? Fix this so the chart is back online as it used to be ? Thanks in advance. E.L.

Hello, I'm wondering why the phonemic chart doesn't have this diphthong? /ʊə/ Thanks Jeanette

I am afraid one sound is missing. In English there are 44 sounds and you have included 43. The diphthong /ʊə/ as in tour is missing.

This is a quite useful tool to increase our speak and pronunciation abilities and to reinforce the knowledge that we acquired in the classroom, I think that is a good idea the use of new technologies as a resource in the teaching process.

Interesting. I have used the sounds app and I think it's good for students to play with to get used to the sounds. If anyone is interested (or not interested) could I ask you for some help by doing my survey. It’s for my Trinity Diploma in TESOL. If you leave your email address in the final question, I’ll happily share the results. The address is as follows below: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/N3XQSN9 Thanks Pete

Hi Richard There's been some debate regarding the missing dipthong which you can add to by looking at the previous comments.

as in fluent, fewer, sewer?

Hello everyone, My sincere wishes to you all. This phonetic transcription chart is very helpful for me not only for teaching children but also teaching pronunciation to adults. Thank you very much

This is most difficult part for me, I understand little of this but hoping to improve it using this resources and the information on this website of teaching English.

Is there such an animal? I found a Phonetic transcription tool but it does not give me the characters that I am looking for. Anyone know of an online tool? Thanks, Enrique

hi i have a doubt on the word TREATY- /ˈtriː.ti/, we have a short vowel sound i in the end, but in the chart it is a long vowel i:, why in the symbols ɪ is not used and the script is not /ˈtriː.t ɪ/, please help, thanks

hi my query when we use the script for i sound the shot one, we have two symbols the 'i' and ' ɪ ' both sound the same, but in application on the word,committee /kəˈmɪt.i/ , both the symbols are used, ie after m and t., is there any rule to use specific symbols, other examples why in the word kit- we use /kɪt/, and for pony we use /ˈpəʊ.ni/

Hi there. One more drawback not mentioned in the other comments: it seems that one diphthong is missing (tour). BBC gives 8 and you give 7.

Thank you for this chart. I've downloaded it. I want to use it in my teaching.

i have been using the chart for a long time but i always wonder why the round closing diphthong, the one in British 'pure' is missing in the diphthongs chart. the same vowel is used in OALD8 too.

It is really very helpful to teach the children especially to practice the beginners ot learning the language English! superb!

I've just joined and I note that the chart is available for download to PC but I'm not seeing one for the MAC operating system? Is there one or plans for its development in the near future? I've already download the app. Great going!! Many thanks!

Why http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/pk.htm has number of extra symbols which are not in phonemic chart? for example. ă pat ā pay â care ä father There are also similar variations for a, o, i, e? Thanks, Baniya

the chart is user friendly, thank you

On the phonemic chart, I notice that there is one diphthong short. Is there a reason for that?

it is very much usefull to me thank you so much

It is very useful, I personally like to practice my pronunciation with this type of charts, learning the little differences between the same letter on different words is very useful. This chart let me improve my knowledge and practice my pronunciation as a teacher and also as a student.

Hello there, I would like to create something quite similar in my language(Greek); does anyone knows how to build this?

Maybe we could have a Mac-compatible download option? .exe files do not compute!

The new British Council phonemic chart is for teaching the sounds of English. It could be extended to help teach the written symbols of English, which could be used in a Dictionary Pronunciation Guide too, as well as in Parallel Texts as a 'crib' to help read passages in normal spelling. Here is a spelling guide for the phonemic chart. The only new symbols are uu buuk, à è ì, ò, ù, for the ‘long vowels’, thh for θ as in thhing, and zh as in television. It can be used as a guide to reading. pure vowels i:= ee, sheep ɪ = i,ship ʊ = uu, buuk, u: = oo, shoot e = e, left ə = er, teacher ɜ:= ur, fur ɔ:= or, for æ = a, hat ʌ= u, cup ɑ:= ar, far ɒ= o, on dipthongs ɪə = here èr eɪ = wait à ʊə = tourist oo ɔɪ coin oi əʊ = show ò eə = hair air aɪ = like ì aʊ = mouth ou Consonants ʧ = cheese ch ʤ = joke j k = coin k θ = thing thh ð this th ʃ sheep sh ʒ = television zh ŋ = thing ng j = you y