Today's English study Today I'm studying English vowel sounds. I learned that English has 5 vowel letters (A, E, I, O, U) but around 12 pure vowel sounds. That's one of the reasons English pronunciation can be challenging! Here are the 12 pure vowel sounds with examples: /iː/ → sea, sheep, eat /ɪ/ → sit, live, city /e/ → bed, ten, head /æ/ → bad, man, cat /ɑː/ → father, heart, far /ɒ/ → hot, dog, not /ɔː/ → saw, law, four /ʊ/ → good, book, put /uː/ → blue, root, boot /ʌ/ → cut, mother, up /ɜː/ → bird, word, earth /ə/ (schwa) → mother, sugar, Saturday Which vowel sound was the most difficult for you when you started learning English? 😊