While (not) studying for my linguistics test later today I stumbled across a fun website. I was looking for an American English phonetics chart, preferably one with playable sounds. What I found was not quite a chart, but not only does it have the phoneme symbols it gives the place and manner of articulation and has a cross section drawing of the mouth so I can watch how the sounds are made while listening to them being played. soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu. I've really enjoyed playing with phonetics both in this class and in past classes. It feels like a code or writing in another language while I'm still only using English with a different list of arbitrary symbols, many of which are actually the same so there are only about 12 to learn (or relearn in my case because several of them are the same as Japanese syllables but make different sounds.)
Wərdz ɑr, əv kɔrs, ðə most pawərfəl drəg juzd baj mænkajnd.
~rədjərd kɪplɪŋ
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