Transcribe the following words

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hello,
Transcribe the following words:-
[color=red]1. lax
/læx/

[color=red]2. stopped
/stɒppd/

[color=red]3. moods
/mu:dz/

[color=red]4. block
/blɒk/

[color=red]5. scanning
/skænnIŋ/

[color=red]6. shorter
/ʃortɑ:r/

[color=red]7. shirt
/ʃIrt/

[color=red]8. quite
/qwaɪt/

Is any of my answers wrong?
Can you check them and correct the wrong ones?
Thanks.

2

Actually there’s a whole lot of free dictionaries on the Internet that list word transcriptions, for example:
www.thefreedictionary.com/
You can easily check yourself.
Let us know if you still can’t solve it.

3

Yea, but the dictionary doesn’t give the transcription for the past verb tense.
For example “stopped” it only transcribed “stop”: /stɒp/
What about the other letters: ped?
Is my answer correct?
/stɒpd/

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Ah, Tort, you are quite right and I’m all for independent checking, but if BC did that, I suppose he wouldn’t get the second chance to try again! Also, only the root words are available very often.

  1. is incorrect. You have the ‘x’ letter making the wrong sound.
  2. You don’t need the doubled letters (in this case the second p) they both join to make one sound.
  3. correct
  4. correct
  5. Again, the doubled letter is not needed.
  6. You have the o letter making the wrong sound. The end phoneme needs to be looked at again too. In BrE the ‘er’ would make an ə sound, but there is a difference in AmE.
  7. the ‘i’ is making the wrong sound.
  8. You have the q making the wrong sound.

I think you can be proud of that effort for an early attempt! Two completely right and an average of one mistake in the other words isn’t bad when you are getting to grips with it.

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[color=red]2. stopped
So, here I could only say /stɒp/
Is that right/

[color=red]5. scanning
and here I could only say /skæn/
Right?

6

Yep, I lost sight of that inconvenience.
It’s been giving me grief too, like when I want to know how to pronounce the plural of a noun, etc, I have to go to great lengths to find that out.

7

No - you have to add the ‘ed’ sound, but you don’t need to show that when adding a suffix you double the p.

No - you have to show the sound of the suffix (the -ing).

8

Hey, you know a place where you could ask!

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[color=red]5. scanning
So, it would be
[color=blue]skænɪŋ
Right?

[color=red]2. stopped
I found in the dictionary that the sound of “ed” can be:
d (For UK), t (For US), ɪd, əd
So If wrote in in all these ways will it be acceptable?
[color=blue]/stɒpd/
[color=green]/stɒpt/
[color=brown]/stɒpɪd/
[color=darkred]/stɒpəd/

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That’s it! [ðæts ɪt]

The last two aren’t right. I suspect that you have looked for ‘ed’ letter combinations instead of looking for ‘ed’ letter combinations which sound the way they do in the word 'stopped! You will (and have) make mistakes by doing that. You cannot use a dictionary in that way. You must remember that this is about sounds, not writing.

As an example, compare the endings of these words:
stopped
ended
The letters are the same but the sounds made by combining those letters in those words are completely different.
[stɑpt]
[ɛndəd]

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Please, anyone can help me give the word for the following transcriptions, I have no luck finding them, I also tried to look them up in dictionary, but no luck, the dictionary also doesn’t search for transcriptions as it only give the transcription of words and their meaning.

[color=red][b]1. /ri: dʒən/

  1. /ələu/

  2. /meni/

  3. /nok/

  4. /səup/

  5. /ri:zn/

  6. /lesn/

  7. /faut/

  8. /aɪðə/

  9. /la:ftə/

  10. /tʌŋ/

  11. /kləuz/[/b]

I will be very grateful for who helps me!!

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  1. region
    2.allow
    3.many
    4.knock
    5.soap
    6.reason
    7.lesson
  2. I couldn’t guess :frowning:
    9.either
    10.laughter
    11.tongue
    12.close
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In your learning materials do you have any example words containing /au/? IPA is not my forte, but in a couple of lists I’ve just checked I don’t see that combination. I see /aʊ/, as in “mouth”, but there is no word like “fout”. I’m wondering if the answer is supposed to be “fort”.

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I wish you hadn’t just given BC the answers, Tamta. That won’t help him learn how to work these out.

BC - I told you a dictionary won’t help. I also suggested you got used to the second stage before moving on to this third more difficult stage.
You cannot find them or look them up in a dictionary and you shouldn’t guess.
You have to find out what sound they make, then join the sounds together and listen to the word made by the sound.

I agree with Dozy that there is a problem with number 8.

You may find this useful.
stuff.co.uk/calcul_nd.htm

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How can I answer this question, please?
[color=red]
V. Group the following words according to the vowel sound in each:

Rise, fear, sound, boil, here, cows, might, toys

My answer:-
aI: Rise, might
ɪəʳ: fear, here
ɔɪ: boil, toys
aʊ: sound, cows

Is this a correct answer?

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You tell us this time, BC!
Say each word aloud slowly and carefully, listening for the middle sounds…
Do you hear the same sound in the middle of each pair of words?
How well do you think you’ve got on?

17

Yes, they all sound the same in the middle.

Well,
How can this question be answered?
[color=red]Identify the initial sound in each of the following words , and indicate its place of articulation and whether it is voiced or voiceless :

Chaos - write - phone - choice - gigantic

Chaos: The initial sound is /k/? It’s voiceless-veral-plosive
write: The initial sound is /r/
phone: The initial sound is: /f/ It’s voiceless-dental-fricative
choice: The initial sound is: /t/ It’s voiceless-plosive
gigantic: The initial sound is /j/

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You are correct about message 15. They all sound the same in the middle - you grouped them correctly.

You need to look at the initial sound for ‘chicken’ and ‘gigantic’ again. Remember that just like more than one letter can be used to create a sound, more than one character may be needed to make a phonetic symbol.

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Choice - /tʃ/
gigantic - /dʒ/