At first glance, these two concepts seem unrelated. YouTube is a vast entertainment platform, while the IPA looks like a confusing grid of alien symbols ( /ˈstraɪndʒ ˌsɪmbəlz/ ). But when combined, they form the most powerful toolkit available for mastering any accent, language, or dialect.
YouTube's auto-captions guess words, they don't transcribe phonetics. Never trust a robot to tell you where the tongue goes. Turn captions off when focusing on sound.
It is called phonetics for a reason. Close your eyes. Listen to the loop of the IPA sound 10 times before you look at the mouth diagram.
Look for a video showing the vocal tract .
