Last Monday was a very interesting class. It was funny to see how the quiz got such wrong results in some cases. I agree that the quiz should have had a few additions made to the questions so that the accents could have been pinpointed correctly. Reading the articles was so interesting! I've never heard the Appalachian English accent, so it was really cool reading about the words that sound so different from the way I would pronounce them. Reading the other articles on my own was a good experience too because I got to see how people talked about accents and dialects in a much more informal way. They didn't have the fancy lingo that some other sites use to explain accents which made it much clearer to me.
Learning about the IPA was so interesting too! I thought it was really cool how all of our names were put up on the board in IPA, it was a really creative and fun way to introduce us to the alphabet. While I pretty much understand how the alphabet works, I know that there's no way I'm comfortable enough with it yet to use it on any level. The symbols and terminology are all so foreign to me, but I'm sure it will get easier with time. It was funny when we were all trying to make all of the sounds; some of them are so difficult!
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