I'm sure they do compare -- somehow. But what is your question? Which 44 symbols are you talking about? Which Spanish sounds are you talking about? CJ

I'm not native but I do know that first of all you should learn the phonetic symbols and then with every word you look up you should try to pronounce it exactly.when you do this a lot then without any phonetic help you can read every word

Read the article found in the following site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet . The article is mainly talking about British English Alphabet. The pronunciation is in the form of phonetic symbols. When they are talking about other

hi Ben, Polish phonology is rather adventurous, that's right. But it does not make English any simplier. It is just that with some languages you have to be able to produce special sounds and train your hearing to understand them (e.g. Polish,

Language teachers, could you tell us about some ways in which you are providing "learners with the tools to cope with 'real-life' communication ..."? Here in my country, they don't. And I heard it's so in most other

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

My suggestion to you, Sparky, and all other ("caught" is ... vowel even though (O) may be the appropriate phonetic symbol. My suggestion to you, Arfy, is to use phonetic notation whenever you want to tell someone how you pronounce

Are you using a dictionary that uses /O/ for the "cot" vowel? All modern British dictionaries that I'm aware of that use IPA use /A./ (or (A.), if the transcriptions are phonetic rather than phonemic). (1) (Never mind, Cunningham

Skitt filted: I'm also fluent in Cat (and the related Mountain Lion), and have a serviceable smattering of conversational Coyote..r You'll have noticed then, that while Cat contains a wide variety of vowel sounds, they don't bother

i hit e beet u put u boot Of course in English (general American anyway), these pairs of vowels are not distinguished simply by length. The ... of them also pronounce "milk" as "melk" (mElk) and often use the "liquid