Monday 11 April 2016

The English Vowel Sounds

There are 5 vowel sounds in Spanish and 8 in Catalan. In English there are 12 and some of them do not exactly coincide with our Catalan sounds. To illustrate the English vowel sounds we use the following diagram:






The idea is to put this diagram inside the mouth of a profile to see the position of the tongue inside the mouth when a vowel sound is pronounced.

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