Showing posts with label Vowel sounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vowel sounds. Show all posts

Thursday, May 27, 2010

English Pronuntiation


Copy the link below into your browser. Watch the video. As homework, write down in your notebook the words you have hear. Identify the phonetic symbols for each vowel

http://www.englishmedialab.com/pronunciation/vowelvideo.html

Vowel sounds



Remember there are 46 sounds in the English sound system, 22 of which are vowel sounds. Compare this with Spanish, which has 5 vowel sounds, none of which are equivalent to any vowel sound in English. English vowels are difficult to identify and produce in most latin based languages.

Listen to the different vowel sounds in English in the following link:
http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/vowel%20sounds/vowel%20sounds.html