The sounds of language: Phonetics

Chapter 3
The sounds of language: Phonetics
The written English has many origins with different spelling conventions. Due to the different conception there are varieties of pronunciation with the same spelling structure. This chapter talks about the study of sound as phonetics. This study is very new for me and my country, so it is really enthusiastic for me to take it back home to teach the phonetics. It is so exciting to know and study about human vocal apparatus. It is bit confusing as a non native speaker to know and feel the sound producing from different places of mouth but very curious to study about. I think Acoustic phonetics gives more sense to understand. We study British English thus there some differences with IPA.
There is not a big deal to find out the voice and voiceless sounds as it is related with the vocal cords and vibration. If the sound is vibrating then it is voiced and if not then voiceless. I think to find place and manner of articulation is bit difficult and takes more practice. It will help more if we make it flash cards and practice it. Consonants sound produced by partially or completely blocking air in its passage from the lungs through the vocal tract, on the other hand vowel sounds are produced by passing air through different shapes of the mouth with different positions of the tongue and of the lips. There different featured of vowel sound such as tenseness, rounding, length, nasalization, tone.
As a teacher learner, though phonetics is a dry subject and it is not a fun to read but I think it should teach as an essential part of language learning. I think reading phonetics give base to student to produce correct sound.