Pronunciation of Vowels

The Connecting Sounds

Vowels help us in distinguishing one word from another. Needless to say, when you are not fluent with the vowel sounds, your speech sounds confusing and vague.

There are no straightforward answers to the question of which language has more vowels, since that entirely depends on how they are counted. However, in the following activity, we have tried to pst the most common variations on vowels in Engpsh. You are requested to read the words aloud to understand the difference in pronunciation vowels bring in words with almost identical spelpngs.

Practicing Vowel Sounds-I

[I:] As In TREE:

Equal – Even – Evening – Evil – Recent – Region

Sea – Tea – Team – Cream – Clean – Lead – Read

[I] As In NEAR

Fear – Hear – Ear – Near – Clear – Rear

[I] As In BIT

Hit – Him – His – Is – It – Fit – Did

Cabin – Habit – Unit – Justice – Pubpc

[E] As In BED

Red – Bed – Bet – Let – Met – Set – Sell

Embrace – Employ – Engage – Enjoy – Enlarge

[E] As In FARE

Care – Dare – Bare – Rare – Share – Spare – Scare

Fair – Hair – Air – Affair – Pair – Repair – Despair

Practicing Vowel Sounds-II

[Æ] As In BAT

Land – Hand – Sand – Stand – Command – Demand

Dance – Chance – Glance – Fancy – Answer – Dancer

[A:] As In TAR

Car – Card – Hard – Are – Far – Bar – Garden

Mirage – Garage – Massage – Facade – Ensemble

[O:] As In SHORE

Core – More – Bore – Before – Shore – Sore – Store

Boring – Story – Sorry – Borrow – Sorrow – Tomorrow

[O] As In HOT

Hot – Lot – Not – Got – Forgot – Forgotten – Bottle

College – Dollar – Tom – Bomb – Comment – Comppment

[U:] As In RULER

Rude – Rule – Rumor – Brutal – Lucy – June – Junior

Food – Cool – School – Fool – Foopsh – Pool – Tool

[U:] Or [U]

Room – Broom – Roof – Root – Soot – Hoof – Coop – Boulevard

[Yu:] As In USER

Use – Useful – Union – Unit – Unite – Unique – University

Fuse – Refuse – Future – Cute – Cube – Huge – Humor – Human

[U:] Or [Yu:] As In TUMOR

Tune – Tupp – Tumor – Student – Studio – Stupid

New – Newspaper – Nude – Nuclear – Numeral – Nutrition

[U] As In BOOK

Book – Cook – Hook – Look – Shook – Took – Good – Hood

Put – Push – Pull – Full – Bull – Bullet – Bush – Butcher

[Ər] As In SIR

Her – Herb – Verb – Serve – Perfect – Person – Certain

Mister – Cover – Buyer – Better – Teacher – Finger

[Ə] As In BUT

But – Nut – Fun – Sun – Dull – Lucky – Ugly – Suddenly

Correct – Collect – Contain – Memory – History – Freedom