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Words are written as they sound or consistent with the pronunciation guide in an American dictionary. All phonemic notations require a base pronunciation and the base pronunciation for Truespel is GA or General American. To complete the exercise, you must memorize the truespel alphabet below. The
Truespel Alfubet
Because Truespel shows stress, 40 symbols can mark 43 sounds. This alphabet only looks complicated because the traditional writing system does not show the complexity of the English vowel system. There are almost as many vowel phonemes in English as consonants - certainly far more than 5. What makes the vowels unique is the fact that there is only one way to spell a sound. In the tradtional orthography a vowel is represented over 20 different ways. ae is the only odd lookiing long vowel, it represents the sound in day [dae]. teel, tie, toe, and true look right in these words and they are the the only ways the respective vowels may be spelled. tidy becomestiedee, toad becomes toed, too becomes tue. Study the vowel table below.
The phonograms in blue are vowel-consonant combinations and not included in the Truespel alphabet or is an abbreviated version of oer/aur and air is an alternate traditional version of aer/er. Since or, air, and er are ambiguous and not obvious combinations, they must be isolated. or could be oer, air could be aer or er - these combinations require clarification. The following is a tutorial and test using pseudo-random nonesense words. Each phoneme is presented and equal number of times. The test can be readministere with the different spellings of phonemes substituted for different systems. [allophones of t] 
Test A1 This
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Name _____________________________________________ Email address ______________________________________ Age _____ Years of education (12 = high school grad) _______________ Languages you can speak _____________________________________________________ Languages that you can write ___________________________________________________
START AUDIO TAPE NOW, LISTEN AND READ ALONG This is a short tutorial and trial test on a phonetic spelling method called truespel. It will help us find out how well you can write truespel after a quick lesson and what is hardest to learn. This training will help you become more aware of phonetic relationships. Truespel will enable you to spell exactly the sounds that you hear. You will be asked to try to spell nonsense words. Don’t worry about making mistake, because we need them and your feedback to see what sounds are hardest to spell. SAVE YOUR MISTAKES ON YOUR ANSWER SHEETS. Let’s start training now. Here’s a short, 21-word story that has all 40 sounds of spoken English: “That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I shout, for he’s foiled you again.” Now in truespel. “That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thee air oever eech thhin daug. Look, out, ie shout, for heez foild yue uggen.” The 40 phonemes are consecutively numbered below. There are 23 consonants and 17 vowels that make up the sounds of American English. Th__a__t
k__w__i__k b__ae__zh f__aa__k__s j__u__m__p__d i__n th__ee air oe__v__er
Ee_ch thh_in d_au_g. L_oo_k ou_t ie sh_ou_t, f_or h_ee_z f_oi_l_d y_ue u_gg_e_n. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 One rule you might have noticed aulready is that the long vowels are spelled by bringing over “silent e” to next to the vowel to show it’s long.. Thus, for long “a,e,i,o,u” you have spellings “ae,ee,ie,oe,ue”. Note that I say the phoneme “ue” not “yue”. That makes the point that you need a “y” to make the word “yue”. Probably the most problematic words in the story are: Baezh(beige).
The word “beige” has the “zh” sound. “zh” has no good spelling form in
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For native English readers, there should be NO PROBLEM associating truespel phonemes to sounds for 24 (or 60%) of the phonemes identified in the box below. If you see these 19 are consonants and 5 vowels, you have no problem associating a sound to them. 24 PHONEMES ARE NO PROBLEM b, ch, d, f, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, sh, t, v, w, y, z er air or oi ee 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17, 18, 19 20 21 22 23 24 The 5 long vowels are spelled by moving the “silent e” over to the vowel made long. You end up with spellings such as you presently see in words “sundae, tree, pie, toe and true”. That covers up to 28 phonemes. 5 LONG VOWELS FOLLOW “SILENT E” RULE NEW SPELLING ae, ee, ie, oe, ue, sundae, tree, pie toe, true 25 24 26 27 28 The 6 vowels below spelled by single letters “a, e, i, and u” need some practice to associate a single sound. because in traditional spelling they can be pronounced many ways. The spellings “au” and “ou” also get cinfused with each other. Remember these sample words (bad, bed, tip, up, auger, out) and associate the sounds to the spellings. That’s the trick: Only one spelling per sound. That covers up to 34 6 VOWELS NEED SOME PRACTICE TO LOCK IN CONSISTANT SOUND a, e, i, u, au, ou bad, bed tip up auger out 29 30 31 32 33 34 The 3 consonants below follow special rules: The letter “g” stands for “hard g” (as in gag). The letter “t-h” stand for “voiced (as in the,that), whereas the letters “t-h-h” stands for the “ unvoiced th” (as in thin,thick). Note that the spelling “t-h-h) has a double consonant that does not apply to the stress rule. That makes up to 37. 3 CONSONANTS SPELLED BY RULE g th thh hard, voiced, unvoiced 35 36 37 The last three sounds are possibly the hardest. The sound “zh” (as in vision) has no reliable spelling in English. The “aa” sound (as in father, pond) is a rare form for English. The “oo” sound (as in good, wood, wool) is spelled that way English but also spells the “long u” sound as in (food, soon, hoot). The “oo” sound is the hardest to sort out because of many conflicting spellings. That makes 40. 3 LEAST FAMILIAR OR CONSISTANT, NEED MOST PRACTICE oo aa zh wool,pull,put bomb,father, beige,vision 38 39 40 FINAL TRUESPEL RULES An
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That’s it for learning all about truespel. But it takes practice. Reading is easier than writing. Let’s try reading truespel phonemes. Below are nonsense word. I’ll say the number, pause for you to say the word, then I’ll say the word twice. Circle the phonemes you got wrong. Concentrate on them. This sheet will be collected to see progress. Start now. 1
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Now for practice, here are some 2 syllable words to read. (Note that default stress on first syllable shifts to after a double consonant except for thh). I’ll say the number, pause a second to let you say the word. Then I’ll say it twice and you can circle the phoneme or phonemes you said wrong. Start now. 1
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Now try your hand a spelling truespel. (spelled word below is not displayed) For the next list of words, I’ll say the word number and I’ll speak the word twice and pause. You type in each word next to its number. I’ll then spell them so you can correct them. These will be 2 syllable words. 1
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comments: Why Test A-1 instead of just 1? Is this the best way to teach Truespel? Primary stress is always marked in Truespel. See Is stress phonemic? next page
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