Transcription

Transcription is the act of representing words with phonetic symbols. Transcription is the assigning of a particular phonetic symbol to a particular sound. Symbol represents sounds and spoken words are reduced to written forms in transcription.

It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you transcription. It can help you to learn how to transcribe words only if you can successfully learn the phonetic symbols.

You should be familiar with the phonetic symbols like the short vowels, long vowels and glides.

You should be familiar with the phonetic symbols like the voiced consonants and the voiceless consonants.

You should learn to transcribe words and identify the syllables (heart beats) that make them up.

And it contains many crucial questions designed to enable you master how to divide words into syllables and to transcribe words correctly.