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'Drinkable book' cleans murky water
s’évanouir | to vanish, disappear
foudroyer | to strike down
tomber raide | to crash to the ground
la hauteur | height
la craie | chalk
ci-gît | here lies
se noyer | to drown
engloutir | to engulf
avouer | to confess to [something], to admit to [something]
fournir | to provide
Do you have any tips for learning the IPA? I can retain most of it for short periods of time for exams but after that I forget huge chunks of it
I don’t know about tips, but I learned it by constantly using it. I mean, it’s as second-nature to me as the Roman alphabet, because I am constantly surrounded by it. As a conlanger, I use the IPA when writing transcriptions for words in my languages (i.e. daily—literally), and also online in the various conlang communities I participate in, everyone uses IPA (especially now that almost everything is Unicode compliant). I really didn’t even have to try to learn it because it’s such a regular and constant part of my life. Is there a way you can fold IPA use into your daily life? If you’re in school, maybe take notes using IPA? Write people’s names? As long as you’re doing it all the time, it’ll eventually become second-nature.
This may not work for everyone, but I tend to be systematic about this, so this is how I learned the IPA (and in the process became really good at pronunciation even when I know nothing about the language).
Learn the terminology. Learn what “alveolar” means, for instance, and “velar,” “plosive,” “fricative,” “approximant,” “sibilant,” “voiced,” “voiceless,” “pulmonic,” “ingressive,” “nasal(ized),” “open,” “close,” etc. Start here, and look over the charts at the bottom of the page (click “show” by “Consonants” and “Vowels”).
Correlate all these new terms with how they feel in your mouth. Start with, say, the voiceless bilabial plosive /p/, then change one parameter as a time while keeping the others the same. Change the plosive to a nasal, then to a fricative. Then go back to plosives, but change the place of articulation to labiodental. Consonants are probably easier to do this with since they tend to be more discrete than vowels, but eventually you should correlate broad parameter combinations (such as place+manner+voicing for consonants or closeness+fronting+roundness for vowels) with a specific sound, and therefore the symbols for each.
Add secondary features, such as palatalization or glottalization (all the things written in super- or subscript). Feel the difference between a plain consonant, a palatalized one, a glottalized one, etc., or between a plain vowel, a nasal vowel, or a breathy voiced one. Memorize the correlations between the super/subscript symbols and the sound differences.
Practice transcribing words, in your native language and others, into the IPA, in languages which have regular orthographies, practice transcribing written words into the IPA. Languages like Spanish or Italian are good choices for this since there is often an exact correlation between letters and IPA symbols. (That is, Italian and Spanish <a>, <o>, <m>, <n>, <p>, etc. make the sounds represented by IPA /a/, /o/, /m/, /n/, /p/, etc.)
Keep practicing. That’s it. I used to get bored in math class so I’d transcribe key terms in my notes into the IPA. I’d make up a language sound system, then transcribe names into the IPA and then sort out the closest equivalents in the constructed phonology. As a result, I can pronounce “eichhörnchen.”
Note that you can use the IPA to be as detailed as you want, to write down exact spoken forms or underlying forms. For instance, the underlying phonetic form /sændwɪtʃ/ (”sandwich”) is often rendered as [sæ̃wɪt̬ʃ̬] in quickly-spoken American English, so to say that you’re writing a “word” in the IPA is a slightly shaky proposition.

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Greek animals
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bee - η μέλισσα bird - το πουλί butterfly - η πεταλούδα calf - το μοσχάρι cat - η γάτα rooster - ο κόκορας cow - η αγελάδα cricket - ο γρύλος dog - ο σκύλος donkey - το γαϊδούρι, ο γάιδαρος duck - η πάπια fish - το ψάρι goat - η κατσίκα, η γίδα goose - η χήνα grasshopper - η ακρίδα hare - ο λαγός hen - η κότα horse - το άλογο jelly fish - η μέδουσα kitten - το γατί lamb - το αρνί mosquito - το κουνούπι mouse - το ποντίκι mule - το μουλάρι owl - η κουκουβάγια pig - το γουρούνι piglet - το γουρούνακι, το γουρουνόπουλο puppy - το κουτάβι rabbit - το κουνέλι rat - ο πόντικος, ο μεγάλος πόντικος seagull - ο γλάρος sheep - το πρόβατο wasp - η σφήκα
A dialect is a language.
You shouldn’t think that a dialect or a patois is a “badly spoken” language - it’s certainly its own language with its own grammar and lexicon. Though we say today that Italian, Spanish, and French are languages, it’s not because they’re richer, more beautiful or better structured than Leonese, Napolitan or Picard, but because they acquired a greater prestige when they became the official literary languages of their countries. The dialects at the base of these three languages, the Tuscan dialect of Florence, Castilian, and the Île-de-France dialect respectively, were originally themselves nothing more than patois spoken in a restricted area.
Казаннын ин матур мэчете - Эжем. Татар эклектикасынын архитекторы билгесез. Совет чорында мэчет эчендэ фильмнар курсэткэннэр хэм тарихи тосен югалткан, кызыл булган. Заводлар чорнап алган булса да, буеннан буена романтик рухтагы архитектураны тулыландырып аллея бара. Элбэттэ ул бернинди дэ благоустройство планына кертелмэгэн, э мэчет карангы тошкэч куздэн югала, яктыртылмый. Радиоприболар заводы янында урнашкач чит ил кешелэренэ хэм очраклы йоргэннэргэ бу урам ябык булган. “Иностранцам вход воспрещен!” язуын эле дэ куреп була, бу язу эле дэ актуаль кебек… Одно из самых красивых мечетей Казани, жемчужина, которую роднит с петропавловским собором виноградная лоза по периметру здания. Архитектор татарской эклектики неизвестен. В советское время здесь показывали кино и здание потеряло исторический цвет. Рядом много деревьев, аллея,которая дополняет романтическую архитектуру мечети. Ночью здание совсем не видно, нет подсветки, территория в планах благоустройства тоже не замечена. Среди производственных зданий рядом расположился и завод радиоприбора. До сих пор сохранилась надпись “Иностранцам вход воспрещен!”, потому что актуальна… #казан #казань #kazan #tatarstan #татарстан #татарстаняшьлэре #молодежьтатарстана #мечеть #мэчет #mosque
One of the most beautiful old mosques of Kazan, called Adjem Mosque (Äcem mäçete / Azimov mäçete) #mosque #kazanmosques #tatarmosques #muslim #moslem
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Tatar mosque in Kazan. Past and Present
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Tatar Opera Theatre as it is. Annual Rudolf Nuriev and Feodor Shalyapin international festivals

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'Puppy cuddles' for anxious students
Music: Mansur Mozaffarov,
Lyrics: Mökhämmät Sadri
Tatar opera singer and composer: Sara Sadıyqova
A recording is made circa mid 50s of the 20th c.
Now as I’m listening to her I can’t believe that we lived in one house and she used to drop by and play on my piano (!!!) , rehearsing with singers.
She was already above 70 at that time, a famous Tatar composer.
... and I was around 8-9.
What could I feel at that time? I don’t know why but I was afraid of her - she was so confident, with shrewd eyes, always finding me when I tried to hide from her )))
Now as I look on her pictures, my eyes get wet.
She was born in 1906, like my grandmother. It also adds.
For me they are two incredible representatives of Tatar women, who survived the World War II.
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At this page you can find more songs performed by Sara Sadıyqova.
Söyembikä
SujumbikeTower, Kazan, Tatarstan
When I see the ancient historical architecture of my native city in somebody's pictures I can't believe I live there... Süyümbikä Tower is in a 40 minutes' walk from my house... Bravo, Photographer!

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Video "One day from Nobi\'s Life". (Squirrel Diary)
A Funny and Optimistic video
"One day from Nobi's Life"
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.
By Stepanov Slava