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Today we will talk about how to pronounce vowels in English, and with a fun point-of-view

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The truth is that vowels in English always represent a particular difficulty for many students.

But don't worry, because there's a self-evident reason why this happens.

It turns out that in English we have six vowel letters,

represented by letters A, E, I, O, and U, and 15 vowel sounds.

Fifteen vowel sounds?

Yes, you see, that's the real problem.

In English, we don't read vowels as they are written,

simply because the same letter can be pronounced in different ways.

For example, we can pronounce vowel A in seven different ways. Amazing, right?

We divide vowel sounds into three different categories. Long vowels. We pronounce the long vowels

the same as the letter. These are the long vowel sounds in American English. A, E, I, O, U.

Examples

A, steak.

E, sleep.

I, bike.

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