Instead, short and long vowel sounds get different pronunciations. In a lot of languages, short and long vowels are pronounced with the same sound but for different lengths of time. But with up to 20 different vowel sounds in English, how can just five or six vowels represent all the different sounds? Part of the solution is having short and long vowel sounds, that is, vowels that are pronounced differently depending on how and where they appear in a word. If you’re learning English, you may already be familiar with the English alphabet, which has five vowels - a, e, i, o, u - and sometimes y. Most American English speakers have 15 or 16 vowel sounds. How many vowel sounds are in English?ĭepending on where you are and whom you ask, English has between 14 and 20 different vowel sounds. In this article, we’ll go over the basic rules of long and short vowel pronunciation in English, as well as the best way to make sure you always get the pronunciation right whenever you learn a new English word. 1000 English language words | By Logus Academy Explore Course 77 Hours of English language speaking, English listening practice. With these Flashcards your child can read the various Long Vowel Word Families and add Consonants to the Word Families to practice blending sounds to make Long Vowel Words (Long Vowel Flashcards).English speaking course. To practice the Long Vowel U, Vowel Vowel, grammatical rule there are stories for your child to read in the Practice Reading Book 2 that correlate with the same Long Vowel U Word Families addressed in the video (Practice Reading Book 2 Pages: 59-64).įor additional practice there are printable Long Vowel Word Family Flashcards. The fist vowel says its name the second vowel says nothing.” This video teaches the grammatical rule for recognizing two Vowels next to each other with a song: “Consonant Vowel Vowel.
When one sees the pattern of two Vowels next to each other and the first Vowel is a U, the grammatical rule for that arrangement is that the “U” will say “oo” and the second Vowel is silent.Īn example of this letter pattern with Long Vowel U is the word “Suit.” The Consonants S and T make their typical sounds, the U makes the sound “oo” (NOT the sound of its Letter Name “U”), and the I does not make any sound. The U with another Vowel makes an, “oo” sound like “oo” in the words: Moo, Boo, and Too. Long Vowel sounds are when Vowels make the sound of their Letter Names but U plus another vowel does not follow this rule.
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