Different Pronunciations

Blog #3
Phonetics is more difficult than I could ever imagine. Not only is it difficult because you have to memorize new symbols that just seem to be out of this world, but also the sound of each. It gets even more complicated once you memorize everything. I can speak for second language learners. Some words I may slightly pronounced different, and this makes it hard to hear the sound that I suppose to hear. In class I found myself telling, "You never pronounce it like that." At times is was frustrating because I wanted to hear and say what everyone else was saying. I guess wrong pronunciation can happen to anyone, not just second language learners. In our phonetics homework we had the word,"alphabet." I pronounce it like it is spell, it was interesting to hear a friend say "elphabet." I had never hear that, specially from an only English speaker. As a future teacher, I will be able to relate to different pronunciation for the same word by my students. Second language learners say words differently because, we weren't necessarily thought to eliminate certain sounds, and if we see it in writing, then we want to pronounce it.