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I really found this short book to be useful. Linguistics is just a part-time interest of mine. Occasionally, I need to resort to using IPA notation to correct text to speech functions as phonemes for Amazon's Polly. This book provides each notation with one word from each of 6 represented languages—English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish—, where the language has a corresponding word. In some cases, a sound is unique to one or two languages, so the other languages simply have an n/a.
What was nice to me is that I could use my primary language as a guide to better grasp the commonality of the sound in a word in another, e.g., the ε of the English bed and the French bête. As French is a secondary language, I could use it as a reference where English had no representation. I found myself subvocalising each of the presented terms on each page.
There is a free, open-access online companion with an MP3 audio file for each page that pronounces the sound and each of the words present on each page: http://alfred.com/ipamadeeasy
What was nice to me is that I could use my primary language as a guide to better grasp the commonality of the sound in a word in another, e.g., the ε of the English bed and the French bête. As French is a secondary language, I could use it as a reference where English had no representation. I found myself subvocalising each of the presented terms on each page.
There is a free, open-access online companion with an MP3 audio file for each page that pronounces the sound and each of the words present on each page: http://alfred.com/ipamadeeasy