This textbook is intended for students of the 1st stage of undergraduate education "60110900 - foreign language and literature (English)" and is aimed at integrating their speech skills. This guide provides students with the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to develop interactions, written and oral speech, as well as to strengthen their communication skills. The main goal of the textbook is to help students of the 1st level to learn a foreign language effectively, to improve their speaking skills and to teach them how to use the language in practice. In this process, it is aimed...

This comprehensive textbook explores the scientific study of speech sounds across nine major sections. Beginning with the fundamental principles of phonetic science, it examines the physiological mechanisms of speech production, including detailed coverage of the vocal tract anatomy and how it produces different sounds.The book thoroughly explores articulatory phonetics, detailing how consonants and vowels are formed through specific movements and positions of speech organs. It then transitions to acoustic phonetics, explaining how speech sounds can be analyzed as physical sound waves with...