This much-anticipated performance marks the first time DanceHouse will present a Taiwanese work. My own high school had done a pretty good job of teaching us how to spell in the 1950s, so I was ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...

On August 19, 2025, in Chongqing, China, @Fish-flavoredBreeder shared a funny classroom moment. In the video, the author is teaching English to her student, asking them to read English terms aloud.

Primary school kids are using unwieldy Mandarin phonetics in their English-language textbooks after the Ministry of Education ruled out teaching young pupils KK (Kenyon & Knott) symbols, a lawmaker ...

To learn how the International Phonetic Alphabet is used to communicate the sounds of words in different languages. The parchments discovered in the Judean Desert's Cave of Letters were written in two ...