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May All Be Literate
IPA First for basic, practical, universal literacy
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One two-sided sheet of paper by itself or with a little phonetic
instruction can communicate and teach much of the International
Phonetic Alphabet, under the rule, one sound one letter -- IF it uses
mechanical line drawings instead of Latin words like "fricative" or
"velar". Line drawings are universal and independent of language or
level. An IPA Chart with line drawings therefore expands the potential audience from post-graduate Linguistic Phonetics classes to Everyone -- irrespective of language or level. The one sound one letter principle reduces literacy to an easily-understood problem, quickly enabling full insight and competence for the student, who can then easily generalize to orthographies of any complexity -- even Chinese is taught with a phonetic alphabet, pinyin. Further, the universal business language English, is phonetic enough that c is [k,s,ch] final e drop with lengthening preceding vowel. Great Vowel Shift rotates long vowels. i: -> ay, e: -> i:, a: -> e:, u: -> aw, oo -> u: |
IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet, is a universal doorway to literacy.
First learn IPA, with or without a teacher, with or without tech.
Then you can learn any script for any language very easily.
| If your language was unwritten, |
use IPA to write your own language.
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| If English or European script is seen, |
use IPA to read it, mostly.
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| To learn any (school or home) language, | use IPA to write the actual sounds |
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because to speak it you must know the sounds.
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IPA offers basic phonetic literacy to all.
Download, print, copy (2 sides onto 1 page), share, explain.
Teach pre-schoolers, ladies at home, other Teachers,
everyone.