The Sound Word service makes it easy to find out transcription, pronunciation and translation of English words online.

To use it, you need to enter a word and click "Search". After a short pause, he gives out a transcription of the English word, pronunciation and translation. For convenience, two options are offered: British and American. You can also listen to pronunciation options online.

What is transcription?

Phonetic transcription is a graphic recording of the sound of a word; pursues the goal of accurate graphic recording of pronunciation. Each individual sound must be separately recorded in the recording. Phonetic transcription is written in square brackets; special phonetic symbols are used for recording.

Why do we need transcription of English words?

Knowing English transcription is useful. This makes it easy to read and correctly pronounce an unfamiliar English word on your own, without outside help. It is enough to look into the dictionary or use online services. Everyone knows that reading English words is a rather specific process, based not on the “folding” of words from letters, but rather on the transformation of letter combinations into combinations of sounds. Of course, there are certain reading rules that you need to know and apply. But there are many more words that do not obey these rules. This is where transcription comes to the rescue, allowing you to find out the correct pronunciation of the English word, and, accordingly, its reading.

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Common phrases

Appeals

At the station

At customs

Walk around the city

Emergencies

In transport

At the hotel

Seasons of the day and year

Numerals

In the shop

Cafes, bars, restaurants

Our Russian-English phrasebook consists of common conversation topics:

Greetings - phrases with which you can start any conversation, and just greet a familiar person.

Standard phrases - during the trip you will repeatedly have to turn to passers-by for help, this topic will help you in communicating with the locals. Here are collected common words and phrases that are most often used in the lexicon.

Station - all the necessary phrases and words that have to be used at stations.

Passport control - words that will be useful to you during passport control.

Orientation in the city - walking through some of the English cities, you can get lost. This theme will help you get where you need to go or find a place or place that interests you.

Transport - translation and pronunciation of words and phrases that will be useful to you in public transport, or in order to find the nearest stop.

Hotel - not every hotel understands Russian. Therefore, for a smooth check-in at the hotel and further comfortable living in it, this section will come in handy.

Emergencies - there are also unpleasant moments during the holidays, just at such moments this topic will help you out. You can call for help, call an ambulance or the police, etc.

Dates and time - in order to be in time always and everywhere, you need to know what time it is, but if you forgot your watch, this topic will help passers-by know the time. There is also a translation of months and days of weeks.

Shopping - all the necessary phrases for shopping. Here is a translation of words that will help you with the purchase of products in the market or with the purchase of clothes in the most sophisticated boutiques.

Restaurant - while walking around the city, you got hungry and decided to have a bite to eat in a restaurant? But if you don't know English, you can't even order a cup of coffee. This theme includes the translation of phrases with which you can comfortably spend time in a restaurant without feeling any language barrier.

Numbers and numbers are a very important and frequently used topic. Without knowing how to pronounce numbers and numbers in English, you will not be able to pay for purchases, find out the schedule of certain events, and so on. This thread fixes a similar issue.

Transcription is the transfer in writing of the elements of sounding speech by a certain set of written characters. When learning English, students encounter a subtype of transcription, in general, phonetic transcription.

It aims to convey the pronunciation as accurately as possible by graphic means. Each individual sound and its variation is transmitted in its own way. For recording, special characters are used, called transcription marks, which are enclosed in square brackets. Some of them are visually similar to, others are completely different.

But it should be remembered that the letter and the icon are different things. The transcription mark denotes a sound.

If one letter can convey several sounds at once, then each English transcription icon conveys only one sound.

Why do we need transcription of English words?

In English, there is a big difference between the spelling of a word that has developed in the process of historical development and its current pronunciation. In other words, there are too many exceptions to the reading rules, the same letters / letter combinations can be read differently under the same conditions, so knowing the reading rules is not enough to correctly read an unfamiliar word.

This is where transcription comes in. Thanks to it, it becomes possible to correctly read absolutely any unfamiliar word in the dictionary.

Of course, at the stage of learning transcription, knowledge of Russian sounds is used. There must be some basis in the form of already known material. However, there are simply no analogues of some English sounds in our native language, others have significant differences in pronunciation, so it will be incorrect to write down the sound of an English word in Russian letters.

There is no need to know transcription icons perfectly. It is rare when a person may just need to write down the sound of a word. It is important to be able to correctly read the transcription in the dictionary.

Most of the transcription icons will be found in other European languages ​​related to English, which will help to learn their pronunciation.

Factors affecting pronunciation

word stress

Almost all the difficulties in English reading rules relate to reading vowels in stressed syllables, where vowels are pronounced clearly, and the meaning of the word will depend on the correctness of their sound. In an unstressed syllable, vowels are not clearly articulated, they can generally fall out, so they do not present any particular difficulties.

Stress is indicated by a vertical stroke before the stressed syllable. In short words, the stress is one, in long ones it can be two. In this case, the main emphasis is placed at the top, the secondary - at the bottom.

English sounds

These are two vowel sounds, pronounced very together, where the first is stressed, articulated more clearly and distinctly, and the second is weaker:

• - ah
• - Hey
• [ɔi] - oh
• - ay
• [əu] - oh
• - ie
• - ue
• [ɛə] - remotely similar to ea

Words in speech flow

In addition to stress in a word, there is the concept of phrasal stress. The most important words in the sentence from the speaker's point of view will be stressed. Depending on the location of the phrasal stress, the meaning of the sentence will change slightly.

Let's compare on the example of a simple short sentence, stressed words are highlighted in bold:

• She has gone to the shop just now.

She just went to the store (her, not her brother or great uncle).

• She has gone to the shop just now.

She just went to the store (went, but did not go by car, for example).

• She has gone to the shop just now.

She just went to shop(to the store, not to the disco, school or anywhere else).

• She has gone to the shop just now.

She just now went to the store (just recently, not 3 hours ago).

Accordingly, the stressed word will be pronounced as clearly as possible, and unstressed - less. Functional words - prepositions, conjunctions, particles, pronouns, etc. in an ordinary phrase they are also in an unstressed position.

It should also be noted that colloquial everyday speech tends to be minimized, i.e., it is characterized by the use of abbreviated forms, less clear articulation, somewhere even deliberately incorrect from the point of view of the literary language, dropping vowels, etc.

How much time to devote to practice?

The answer to this question is unequivocal. There is no such thing as too much practice in a language. The more you work out, the better the speech will sound, the easier it will be for sounds that are unusual for a Russian-speaking person.

You should practice both listening to authentic English speech and trying to imitate it, as well as independent.

To track your own mistakes, it is useful to record yourself on a voice recorder. Regularity is also important in this matter, that is, it is better to practice more often and little by little than abundantly, but extremely rarely.

Why do people mispronounce words?

As soon as we hear from the lips “your phone is ringing”, “lay down in place”, “that dress is more beautiful”, then we ask ourselves: why do people speak incorrectly? After all, everyone once studied at school, placed stresses in words and pronounce them drawlingly with the correct stress.

The thing is that in Russian there is no single rule for stressing words, unlike, for example, Spanish, where there are only two rules for pronunciation.

New words with the wrong accent come to us from different regions. So, for example, in the southern dialect of the Russian language there are the following pronunciations: means A, understood, raised.

Our neighbors from Belarus and Ukraine also have a huge influence on the language. The languages ​​are close enough that they often get mixed up. This is especially noticeable in areas that border on each other. As a result, new variants of pronunciation of words are born in our speech.

As soon as we hear the distorted sound of a word, we begin to doubt ourselves: “Am I pronouncing the words correctly?” In order not to mislead ourselves, we have selected the 30 most tricky words with incorrect pronunciation. This is where we most often make mistakes.

Borrowed words in Russian

In speech, we use a large number of borrowed words. Meanwhile, in each language there are certain pronunciation rules that must be taken into account.

french words

A large number of words of our language were borrowed from France. They have become so ingrained in Russian speech that sometimes we mistake them for native words.

But they do not lose their roots and are also intertwined with family ties. The French language has its own specific rules for pronunciation of a word. In most cases, the stress falls on the last syllable.

• dispensary;
• apostrophe;
• partner;
• blinds.

Despite the fact that in most cases the stress falls on the last syllable, there are exception words in the language:

• creams;
• phenomenon.

English words

Our speech is constantly enriched with English words. The most traceable trend of this language is the stress at the beginning of a word. And the examples below will help you to verify this:

• marketing;
• barmen (bar).

In English, like in any other language, there are exception rules:

• pullover (pull over);
• login (login).

german words

Words from Germany came into Russian speech for many years. There are many compound words borrowed from other languages ​​and formed from two or more roots. Therefore, each language unit has its own accent.

• quarter. It comes from the German word qartal, and it comes from the Latin quartus;
• shoe. Borrowed from German tyffel;
• kitchen. In German, this word was borrowed from Latin;
• scarves. Derived from the German scharpe.

related words

In Russian, mobile stress. Therefore, it is simply impossible to check the pronunciation of a word according to one rule. Here it is important to remember a few simple rules:

1. In the words beets and the newborn vowel sound "Yo" is always stressed.
2. Pamper, ring, lighten - in these words, the main thing to remember is that in verbs the stress never falls on the first syllable. Also, in words belonging to the group of verbs ending in -it, the stress falls on the last syllable.
3. Wholesale, cakes, exhaust - these words with a fixed stress, in all norms of the word, the stress will fall on the same consonant.
4. Barrel (barrel), kitchen (kitchen) - are pronounced with the same stress as in the noun.
5. Sorrel, workshops, belt - the pronunciation of these words must be remembered.
6. Dancer - according to the rules of the noun suffix after the consonant "C" is written under the stress "O".
7. Plum - in a word, the stress always falls on the first syllable. This is indicated in all orthoepic dictionaries of the Russian language.
8. Facilities. The word is singular, the stress falls on the first syllable.

A person remembers images better

Write the words on sticky notes, make the stressed vowel bold, and post them around the house so you don't forget.

Mentally draw not the words, but the object itself. For example, the word "barmen". Imagine that you came to a bar, and the bartender's badge does not have a name, but the very word bartender with a bold letter "A".

rhymes

Compose rhymes for words in which you are confused with pronunciation:

• calls - sorry, knock, approve;
• cakes - still lifes, stolen, erased;
• creams - chrysanthemums, schemes.

There are many interesting poems on the Internet about the correct stress of a word. Learn memory rhymes - this will help you not to make mistakes in pronunciation:

Flew off the fire

And faded quickly

If it's wrong, then a spark,

If true - Spark!

Make friends with guides

Go to the library, buy a spelling guide in a bookstore, look at electronic reference books as soon as a controversial issue arises.

So let's remember:

dispensary	beet
apostrophe	newborn
PARTNER	pamper
blinds	ringing
creams	On our website, we present to your attention a module that is quite useful in learning English: Sound Word. With it, you can easily learn the pronunciation of English words, their transcription. In order to use it, you need to enter the word you need and press the button "Listen!". After a short pause, the module will give you the transcription of the given English word, its pronunciation and, of course, the translation. For the convenience of English learners, two pronunciations of the word are offered: British and American variants. Also online you can listen to the pronunciation of English words. What is transcription? Phonetic transcription is how the pronunciation of English words looks (graphically) on a letter. Absolutely every single sound is separately recorded in the recording. Phonetic transcription is indicated only in square brackets, and special phonetic symbols are used for recording it. Why do we need transcription of English words? English transcription is always useful to know for everyone, without exception, for everyone who studies the language. This will provide an advantageous opportunity to read with ease and greater accuracy and, as a result, correctly pronounce an English word that is unfamiliar to you, without resorting to the help of a teacher. All English learners are well aware that reading English words is a rather specific process, which is based not just on the usual "folding" of words from letters, i.e. how it is written and read, but rather on the transformation of certain letter combinations into correspondingly certain combinations of sounds. Naturally, there are also certain rules for reading, pronunciation of English words that need to be clearly known and impeccably applied in practice. But there are many more words that do not obey these rules, believe me, in the English language. And here transcription comes to the rescue, which allows us to find out the correct pronunciation of the English word, and, as a result, its correct reading. Pronunciation of English words online (listen) - 4.0 out of 5 based on 879 votes RELATED ARTICLES Feedback Site Map About the site