English Pronunciation: Learn the short vowel sounds of American English pronunciation. Get complete accent training with videos, word lists and news reports. Study all major sounds of American English at Speak Method.

Continue with the short E sound: ready, red, remember, rest, said, science, second, self, sentence, set, several, special, spell, step, tell, ten, test, them, then, very, well, went, west, when, yellow, yes, yet, practice reading.

Continue with the short I sound: picture, pretty, quick, ship, simple, since, sit, six, still, think, this, which, will, wind, with

Continue with the short U sound, also called schwa and watch the video: enough, final, first, flood, from, front, girl, govern heard, her, island, just, learn, love, machine, money, mother, much, nothing, of, one, other, person, run, second, serve, some, study, such, sun, sure, the, thousand, together, turn, under, until, up, was, were, what, wonder, word, work, world, young, advanced reading practice

* Notice that many spellings are pronounced as the U in "up" when on an unstressed syllable. This is because it is the simplest vowel sound. When next to R, you may not hear it. This is called a "schwa" in phonetics. It is the U in "up" or nothing at all.

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A in cat	A by n/m	A in all	E in met	I in sit	O in hot	U in up	Ö in good	More Study Long Vowels A Sounds O Sounds I Sounds Connecting Sounds Spelling Vowels
Video	Video	Video	Video	Video	Video	Video	Video
act	am	all	again	animal	body	a	book
after	an	also	any	begin	brought	about	could
as	and	always	bed	big	common	above	foot
ask	animal	are	been	bring	cross	again	full
at	answer	call	best	build	dog	ago	good
back	began	car	better	busy	follow	among	look
bad	can	cause	center	children	got	appear	pull
black	example	dark	develop	city	hot	bird	put
class	family	draw	end	did	long	blood	should
fact	hand	fall	ever	figure	lot	but	stood
fast	land	far	every	fish	off	certain	took
had	man	farm	example	give	often	color	understood
half	plan	father	friend	him	on	come	wood
happen	plant	hard	get	his	possible	common	would
has	ran	large	head	if	problem	complete	practice
have	stand	part	help	in	product	contain
language	than	saw	interest	inch	rock	correct
last	understand	small	language	interest	song	country
laugh	practice	star	left	is	stop	cover
math		start	less	it	strong	develop
map		talk	let	list	thought	direct
pass		walk	letter	listen	top	does
pattern		want	many	little	practice	done
perhaps		watch	measure	live		during
that		water	men	minute		early
travel		practice	never	miss		earth
practice			next	(go below)		practice
			question	practice

500 Common Words: Short Vowel Sounds

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