Phonemics, or 
                       Phonemics, or 
             Why Phonetic is so hard…
              Why Phonetic is so hard…
     You do not hear physical sound directly.
     If you did, phonetics would be easy.
     Instead, you perceive all speech 
       sounds through the sound system of 
       your native language(s) and the 
       languages you have studied.
                                      
                What does 
                 What does 
               that mean?
               that mean?
                                      
     You perceive speech sounds through 
        structure.
        structure
     When you deal with sound outside of 
        the structure you are used to, it can 
        become confusing and difficult to even 
        perceive a sound.
                                      
     When you hear human speech sounds, 
        these sounds automatically “trigger” 
        perceptual units in your brain/mind.
     These units are abstractions and are 
        used to organize and structure the 
        “sounds” of your native language.
                                      
     The phoneme is the basic unit of 
             phoneme
        organization of sounds in 
        language.
     The phoneme is an abstract, 
             phoneme
        structural and perceptual unit of 
        speech.