Which branch of linguistics studies the sounds of human speech?

When I learned to read, I was taught using phonetics. Consequently, I can read, pronounce, and correctly spell most words. I'm very grateful for phonetics!

a great way to learn how to read. wish that kids could learn not only how to read properly but also spell properly too. It's important that kids also learn how to print and write on paper. Writing on paper is not learnt anymore

"Eats shoots and leaves" by Lynne Truss, should be required reading.

Player Eeyore, just the opposite of me. I do now speak plain but couldn't as a child & as a result have difficulty sounding unfamiliar words. u r lucky

I did not learn to read using phonetics and it has created some problems for me...I have worked it out.

Phono = sound: phonetics, phonics, phonograph, phonogram. Oh, by the way, Player Eeyore, phonetics is not spelled phonetically. Phonics and phonetics work up to a point.

Player Eeyore, babies from 5-8 months utter every known sound from all human languages.it is then speculated they specalize speaking their native language with the languages they hear as babies

some times thay get hard

Iron, remembered that from My Fair Lady