The Importance Of Phonetics In The English Language

When Arab speak English language they might face some obstacles in their way and the reason lies behind that it’s not their mother tongue so no matter how hard they try to master the language it will take time to speak like natives English speakers because it will remain a second language. Arabic is a great strong language and it’s also the language writing in Quran, compared to English you will find that there are many differences that together we will be tackling it. . In English we write from left to right but in Arabic it’s visversa, Comparing the two alphabets, in Arabic we have 28 letters and there are no vowels and there is only 26 letters in the English, 8 of them are vowels but modern English uses about 44 different sounds. The difference

One reason for that is we don’t notice many of the sound we make when we talk and the actual sounds are different than we hear in our heads. Phonetics importance lies behind that it can distinguish between international languages, like in every language it has it’s own characteristics and there are sounds in English you might not use in your language and sounds in Arabic you might not use in English and one of the most difficult things about English is the spelling and the pronunciation. It’s difficult to know the pronunciation when you look to the spelling of a word because the same letters can be pronounced differently. After studying phonetics you will be able to know where does every sound come from, when to close or open your jaw, the shape of your mouth, where your tongue should be, when the air should come out and voiced and voiceless sounds. In other hand phonology that is more about the system, studying the actual sound, which can make difference in the language and how they are produced and transferred out of your