But the words can come in a phonetic English form, Chinese characters and even spoken form.

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The good ones hesitated and gently spelled it, avoiding a phonetic pronunciation.

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The results are based mainly on a phonetic transcript of the video clips, and you can play the snippet that contains your search term right on the TVEyes page.

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Curiously, though, Venus does not even have a proper Chinese name--only a nearly meaningless phonetic transliteration from English.

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You must remember that English is not entirely phonetic, so just because a student knows a word doesn't mean that they can understand it when it is said to them at native speed or pronounce it correctly.

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My name is Kirsten Perry (phonetic), and I'm a recent college graduate. (Applause.) My mom is a teacher and my dad is a disabled carpenter, so needless to say, I have accrued a significant amount of student loan debt.

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Now we're going to take a question from LinkedIn member Esther Abeyja (phonetic).

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More recently, the Bank of New York installed a voice-enabled directory system supplied by Phonetic Systems of Bedford, Massachusetts, to handle calls for its 16, 000 employees.

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Phonetic learning in the form of "synthetic phonics" is now a major part of education.

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That means creating a written form of the language, which the researchers do using what is known as the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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