Enter YouTube. Before YouTube, learning IPA meant buying expensive CD-ROMs or listening to grainy audio tapes. Now, you have an infinite, free library of pronunciation coaches.
You do not need a linguistics degree to read /ðiː aɪ piː eɪ/. You just need a good playlist, a mirror, and the patience to hit the replay button ten times. Youtube - Ipa
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But here is the catch: You need to hear it. You need to see a mouth move. You need a teacher who can show you the difference between a dental fricative (/θ/) and a voiced alveolar fricative (/z/). You do not need a linguistics degree to
The best IPA YouTubers use close-up cameras (or 3D animations) showing exactly where the tongue touches the roof of the mouth. You can see the puff of air for an aspirated /pʰ/ versus the soft /b/ .