This book provides an easy-to-understand guide to the peculiarities of English Pronunciation and Spelling. It was created for students of English as a Second Language.
It represents each different vocalic sound in the word itself by using a few diacritic symbols. This approach helps to understand the sound of a word directly as it is written and avoids the need to learn it separately using a completely different set of symbols, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, which contains more than 150 characters.
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Alvaro J. Alves-Milho was born in Lima, Peru. He studied computer science at the National Engineering University, and the Catholic University of Lima. He currently lives in Tampa, Florida, where he works as a software engineer for a major corporation. From an early age, he has been interested in history and language as well as mathematics and engineering, which led him to analyze the intricacies of European languages.