An American IPA chart with sounds and examples.
All the sounds of American English (General American) with: consonants, simple vowels and diphthongs. The chart is interactive, click on the symbols and illustrations!
The use of animals for consonants, and colors for vowels, makes this English phonemic chart easy to remember.
About
My goal with this American IPA Chart was to make it visual, memorable, and practical in order to help people learn the sounds of spoken American English.
If you’d like a PDF version to print for your class or the audio to use in a language lab, please see the download page.
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Teachers and advanced students may be interested in some of the decisions that went into designing this English chart:
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Translations
A French version of this chart is available here: Alphabet Phonétique anglais, with all the examples translated into French.
If you’d like to contribute translations into your own language, please add translations of the sample words to this spreadsheet!
Links & Goodies
More good stuff to learn and teach English!
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 In English
- FrequencyList.com
- Discover the top 5,000 words used in spoken American English.
- How to Learn English
- Use modern methods and content to improve your English every day!
- Click & Speak® English
- Learn and remember the top 5,000 words in spoken American English, with audio, phonetics, examples, and lively dialogues!
More projects in preparation. Stay tuned!
🇫🇷 In French
- BilingueAnglais.com
- Comment bien apprendre l’anglais et devenir bilingue.
- Click & Speak® English
- Formation d’anglais en ligne interactive et intelligente pour maîtrisez l’anglais. Plus de mille utilisateurs !
