IPA and phonics

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Ju

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Is Phonics or IPA more effective in sounding words?
I find IPA is more effective because Phonics does not show the stress of the tone which I know it's crucial in sounding a word properly.
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Tdol

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This could be a case of horses for courses- phonics serves a purpose for learning to read, so if it does that well, it succeeds.
 

konungursvia

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Phonics is most useful in English speakers learning to spell, rather than literate foreigners learning to speak, as the latter are best served by the one-to-one relation between sounds and symbols in the IPA.
 
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