Question

If you want to learn how to pronounce an English word, what should you do? O A. Visit an online dictionary and click the speaker icon . O B. Try to sound it out without consulting a dictionary . O C. Take your best guess O D. Learn the International Phonetic Alphabet .

Answer 1

If you want to learn how to pronounce an English word, you should:

O A. Visit an online dictionary and click the speaker icon.

Learning English Pronunciations

The speaker icon of an online dictionary provides the best chance to learn how to pronounce an English word, especially if you are learning on your own.

You can also learn to pronounce an English word by checking out how good speakers of English language pronounce the word.  This implies that trying to sound it out without a dictionary is not a good idea.

Similarly, you cannot learn to pronounce words by taking a best guess or just consulting the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

IPA is a phonetic notation system developed for world languages.  It represents each distinct sound with a set of symbols. English dictionaries use the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate the pronunciation of words.

This implies that it will be cumbersome for a learner to rely on IPA instead of an online English dictionary to learn an English word.