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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 12:48pm PDT - promote requested by eric3579.

I recommend just listening to the audio, it had some interesting points. But like many informational videos this one is edited with that standard infantile overuse of graphics, edits and effects.

Also am I the only one on the planet who doesn't understand usage of aɪər, ʉ, ð and sometimes ʊ? Wikipedia uses those IPA symbols like they are supposed to be helpful but they're Greek to me.

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by eric3579.

Very low audio volume too!

Yeah, I for one could really use an IPA for dummies or ELI5 of IPA... EDIT: The one's I've seen are still too complex, I need a better simplified one... lol.

It's funny, I just spoke to a friend about his doctoral thesis where he records an American Indian language. He said in his thesis he doesn't use IPA because it's too confusing even for academics. I think he said he modified some simplified phonetic alphabet and used a key...but I was on my third IPA myself so...whatever.