Zompist Bboard Again

It sounds to me like you're doing it a bit backwards. Tell me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like your process is like this: First you create the written form of the word. Then you pronounce it, in an English way. Then you try to figure out the phonetic transcription of that. I think most of us follow...

One other thing: if you really get stuck, it’s always possible to record your own voice and play it back more slowly. You could even post the recording here if you want a second opinion. Oh thats a great idea! I'll have to try that out. Thanks for the suggestion! But I was trying to figure out what...

I think you might be confusing phonetic and phonemic representations. Phonetic representations are generally narrower (more precise) and thus more pernickerty, and you shouldn't really have to worry about them unless you're going into the details of pronunciation differences by different speakers. ...

I'm doing a new read/re-read of The Language Construction Kit. I've had the second version of the eBook for quite some time but when I came back to conlanging and found that the newest print version had new material, I ordered it! I'm hoping to get to finishing the phonology of my proto-language soo...

Welcome Shewolf13! I seem to be struggling with applying it. Specifically applying it to full words. My brain has a hard time translating those sounds or at least figuring out their phonemes properly. I have a small set of words for my language, Serasa, but I'm struggling with making sure the phone...

Hello all ^^ I hope this is the right place for this. Since it's a question on phonetics, I thought this was the proper board for it. If not, please let me know! So I started conlanging (and delving into linguistics) several years ago. I stopped as life kinda went a little crazy. But I did do some d...