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Frequently listen to English spoken by native speakers and repeat them. Watch English movies, listen to music, audio clips, BBC news and presentations. Control your rate of speech to get the correct intonation and rhythm of English. Use your dictionary.Familiarize yourself with the phonetic...

I am glad we agree about the sound /w/.That leaves us with the letter <w>.Letters of the alphabet must not be confused with sounds. By convention and for convenience, letters that represent vowel sounds are called vowels and letters that represent consonant sounds are called consonants. (In...

your example forgets that dipthongs are made up of multiple sounds together. The dipthongs /ow/ and /oa/ have the same sound when used in the words you provide as examples, but that doesn't mean that you can isolate half of each dipthong and then show that they the letters obviously...

When you say that /w/ does not behave as a vowel you are in a sense correct. It does not behave like a "full" vowel in that it can never form the nucleus of a syllable. However, although it does not behave like a vowel it is formed liked a vowel. It is sometimes described as a...

I was wondering what is the rule for the spelling of words that contain double consonants?For example:Do I spell the word "recommended" with two Ms or just one? (I am aware that its one M, but why?).Most of the time you can sound out a word to figure out a repeated consonant or vowel or...

I do not think it necessarily is.If we start with a definition that a vowel is a sound articulated without any obstruction of the vocal tract and that a consonant is a sound that is articulated with an obstruction, then we do not have any difficulty deciding that /a/ is a vowel and /k/ is a...

The point of articulation is the place in the vocal tract that is obstructed when a sound is produced. The manner of articulation is how the sound is produced. /p/ and /m/ are both bilabial consonants i.e. produced by the lips coming together (the lips are the point of articulation), but /p/...

Forbes... the distinction you're drawing is very nice, but I think the actual question is not phonetic OR phonological in nature. It appears that the OP is asking about the letter itself, not the sounds it represents (in context or out of context). The OP wants to know why the letter...

There are two currents of confusion running through this thread. The first is that some are confusing symbols with sounds. If you ask an English schoolboy how many vowels there are in English he will say that there are five, and may add that "y" is sometimes a vowel. But there are of...

Hey CB, how about , ten. Hi Jackson, vowel letters are A, E, I, O, U.Vowel sounds are all those sounds you use while speaking that are not consonants. The most common vowel sound in English is the schwa (IPA symbol: /ə/). IPA is the phonetic alphabet often used in phonetic transcriptions in...