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Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter i Posted by Gabriele on Oct 5, 2012
The next letter in this series looking at vowel sounds in English is the letter ‘i’. This is an interesting vowel because it is one of the only letters of the English alphabet that is a word in itself, as in the word for the first person pronoun in English ‘I’. The only other letter…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter e Posted by Gabriele on Oct 2, 2012
Today we continue our look at the different vowel sounds in English by focusing on the letter ‘e.’ Before honing in on the short and long vowel sounds of the letter ‘e’ I want to introduce to you the concept of the silent ‘e’ in English. There are many words in English that end in…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter a Posted by Gabriele on Sep 28, 2012
Today I am going to begin a series of posts looking at different vowel sounds. Since the letter ‘a’ is the first letter of the alphabet it makes the most sense to begin with this letter. Before we begin, it is important to remember that all vowels in English make two different types of sounds…