rowtheboat1234

[reef vessel]

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[fervent spoke]

yes

i never learned it and my pronunciation is fine

people who use it swear by its usefulness though so it's up to you

[steady gulch]

R u a native hindi speaker?

[fervent spoke]

nope

[steady gulch]

What's your mother tongue

If u don't mind me asking

[fervent spoke]

tamil

[quick condor]

IPA helps to discuss pronunciation but is not a requirement

[brisk reef]

Right it facilitates discussion and helps you view thing from a phonetics point of view

But in no way is it a requirement / prequisite

[brisk reef]

[dim hawk]

While I agree it's absolutely not necessary, learning the characters associated with French is a tiny tiny effort. Many of the characters are already identical to the latin letters and there are a handful of others to learn which only take an hour or two to understand

[brisk reef]

Ohh ok good to know! It does seem kinda intimating at first

[dim hawk]

Yeah, the entirety of IPA is quite a big ask of a normal language learner (heck, I have a BA in linguistics and I never learned everything)
but for language-learning purposes, you only need to focus on the subset of characters that actually apply to the language you're learning and you certainly don't need to learn all the diacritics that are used to specify very narrow linguistic transcriptions

[brisk reef]

Ohh good to know ! Stopped me from trying to learn everything 😭

[wise ocean]

yes, i never touched IPA ever

just mimic nativ e

s

ipa gives you nothign

[steady gulch]

https://youtu.be/hI2Pso1dDjM?si=1enhIZgwRtIW7MIz

Is this too advances

I didn't understand anything

[fervent spoke]

⬆️

[wise ocean]

it may be. but im going to be honest, you are better off hearing and mimicking.

after hearing and mimicking

maybe you still have an accent, or not.

but if you do, and you actually start learning and not care about pronounciation so much via IPA

you can talk to natives and mimick their accent back to them

[steady gulch]

Ok 😊 thanks

[wise ocean]

bon courage you can do this

[fervent spoke]

Also, to improve your pronunciation (after you have a beginner level), consider joining the reading club events on our server

Where you are read aloud and people correct your mistakes

Super helpful

[wise ocean]

and to hear natives, look at easyfrench and their slow easy french playlist

they speak slow, they have subtitles exactly as they say