Phonetic Zone 

Welcome to the Phonetic Zone ....(see more)

 

English has a problem!

 

What we read and what we say are often very different.

 

Written English has 26 letters but spoken English has 45 sounds.

 

That’s a lot of sounds, so there are probably a lot of sounds that you don’t know from your native language.

 

In the Phonetic Zone we learn and practice all the sounds of English and how we combine them in English.

 

The two most important questions that we ask you in the Phonetic Zone to help you understand and pronounce spoken English are:

  •  Is the vowel a long vowel, a short vowel or a diphthong? (Usually we just say “Long, short, diphthong?”)
  •  Is the consonant a voiced consonant or voiceless consonant? (Usually we just say “Voiced of voiceless?”)

 

Players who are good at answering these questions find that their listening and pronunciation improves rapidly.

If you practice the Matrix Phonetic System Musical Scale of English, you will become very good at pronouncing English.

 

Happy listening!

Donovantius.

Interactive I.P.A. Sounds of English Map

 

Interactive I.P.A. Sounds of English Map - CC BY SA 4.0 2025

 

I.P.A. stands for International Phonetic Alphabet.

Unlike standard written, the I.P.A. sis logical!

In the the I.P.A. each symbol has only one sound, and every sound of English has a symbol.

If you know it, you know that you can hear and reproduce the sounds of English much better than before you learned it.

If you don’t know it yet, put in some work and I promise that the sounds of English will start to make a lot more sense and you will eliminate a lot of confusion.

Serious student of English learn the I.P.A. and save hundereds of hours of confusion and frustration by mastering the music of spoken English.

Let’s go!

Donovantius

Phonetics IPA MAP by Luke Donovan
The Matrix Verb System, Sounds of English Musical Scale - CC BY SA 4.0 2025

 

Watch and listen and repeat in time with the music and you will learn more than the sounds of English…

You will learn how to combine the sounds of English into syllables.

Studnets who regularly practice The Matrix Verb System, Sounds of English Musical Scale learn to pronounce new words very quickly and have a massive advantage when they practice spreaking with a similiar prononciation, intonation and cadence to that of a native speaker.

 

Let’s go!

Donovantius