How do you pronounce tomato?

[Teeqoz]

Ka-pi96 said:

Teeqoz said:

Phonetic transcription is universal and is used to show how any word is pronounced. It's very useful if you're learning a different language (and with you having studied Japanese iirc, that seems like something that could've been useful). Most dictionaries will also include phonetic transcription of any given word, and will probably have a brief explanation of which sound each symbol represents. It's hardly "another language". You can learn it in about 30 minutes.

Phonetic language anyway so it would be fairly redundant

eh, it's still something that seems unnecessary to me. I mean, it just looks... hard While something like fon-et-ik-al-lee doesn't require any additional learning

Lol, that's true about Japanese. Forgot that.

 

Anyway, seems more like you're just lazy. I mean, I literally learnt phonetic transcription just by looking up a few words I already knew how to pronounse (and I wasn't specifically trying to learn phonetic transcription either).

fon-et-ik-al-lee doesn't tell you for sure how to pronounce the diphtongs and vowels. It just works for you because you know how to pronounce them.

For instance, how do you pronounce the "o" in the "fon" part?

Is it like the o in:

"no"

or

"work"

or

"computer"

As you can see, that's three different ways you pronounce o, and those are just what I got from the top of my head.