English Phonetic Symbols Pro

If you are iPhone and iPad owner,you now can download English Phonetic Symbols Pro for $0.99 from Apple Store. The application is available in multiple languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese. It weighs in at only 81.6 MB to download. It is highly advisable to have the latest app version installed so that you don`t miss out on the fresh new features and improvements. The current app version 1.0 has been released on 2014-04-10. The Apple Store includes a very useful feature that will check if your device and iOS version are both compatible with the app. Most iPhone and iPad are compatible. Here is the app`s compatibility information: Requires iOS 5.1.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Bottom Line: For more information about English Phonetic Symbols Pro check developer lin smu`s website : http://www.orayk.com

I teach ESL and this app has a lot of potential After a very brief review of the app I have found many many errors Words and phrases have been used incorrectly and do not make any sense in English perhaps direct translations from common Chinese phrases Many sentence examples are incomplete they are not written using BASIC ENGLISH RULES OF GRAMMAR and should NOT be presented to ESL students as formal examples of complete sentences in ENGLISH Also there are MANY words with incorrect and or incomplete pronunciation symbols noted in the word lists and sentences entire categories of words that end in the English r sound like regular particular spare etc For EVERY example the symbol for the r at the end of the word is missing so the word regular is displayed to be pronounced reg yu laa the word spare pronounced like spay yaa and particular pa tik yu laa I had hoped that I could use this app in my classes Due to the errors noted above its use will be extremely limited it can only be filtered and used as a reference tool for me and NOT my students Too bad Version 1 8 2 1 8 2 Device Model iPhone iOS Vesion 8 4 1 Sent from my iPhone     Disappointed beth60025