Franklin SPEAK ENGLISH! ESL-580 - Manual (Page 12)

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Showing Pronunciations
6. When is on the
screen, press
ENTER
to see a
moving picture.
To stop the moving picture, press
any key.
7. To see the picture move
again, press
ENTER
again.
8. Press
BACK
to go back to the text
and use to continue reading.
You are shown a list of words that
use the highlighted sound.
9. Use
HEAR
,
SELF
,
BOTH
, and
SHOW
to practice your pronunciation.
10. Press or
DN
until you see
.
11. Press
ENTER
and use to
read a lesson about con-
trasting similar sounds.
12. Press
BACK
twice to go back to
the original phonetic analysis.
13. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Showing Pronunciations
➤ Understanding the Interna-
tional Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet
(IPA ) provides unique symbols for
each speech sound.
To see the phonetic symbol tables of
vowels and consonants, first select
Sounds of English from the Outline
menu and then select Vowel Sounds
or Consonant Sounds. Then select
Vowel Sounds Table or Consonant
Sounds Table from the submenu and
press
ENTER
to see the table.
To highlight a sound, use the arrow
keys. Press
HEAR
to hear an example
word containing that sound.