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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Is there a guide to handwriting English IPA

I have found nothing to actually handwrite International Phonetic Alphabet- it is an awkward set of characters but for children it would useful.There is more about Italian IPA which of course has some overlap.
  

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I have never seen such a guide, but many of the characters of IPA that you'll need to transcribe English speech are the same as those in the 26-letter English alphabet. In your place I would just work with children on this project the same way I would for teaching them to handwrite any other characters, improvising as necessary for the unusual symbols. CJ

— CalifJim

  • I have never seen such a guide, but many of the characters of IPA that you'll need to transcribe English speech are the same as those in the 26-letter English alphabet.
  • In your place I would just work with children on this project the same way I would for teaching them to handwrite any other characters, improvising as necessary for the unusual symbols.
  • CJ
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I have never seen such a guide, but many of the characters of IPA that you'll need to transcribe English speech are the same as those in the 26-letter English alphabet.
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In your place I would just work with children on this project the same way I would for teaching them to handwrite any other characters, improvising as necessary for the unusual symbols.
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For students who thrive on structure like my tutored student- a direct handwriting IPA handwriting guide would be good. I don't think she knows IPA at all but she is good at English. She gives spelling new words a good go but it would nice to know if she hears me correctly first. Of course it would be better if she chose her own characters rather some of the hard to simply write and read IPA chara
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I can't imagine which characters are "the fiddly characters". Maybe it's because for years I have simply imitated (or 'drawn') the characters that are the official 'typed' forms when I have written them by hand. I have never seen any need to have any special handwritten characters when my own hand printing of the symbols was perfectly legible and understandable. In fact, the cursive characters
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