To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the first of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of five long vowel ...

The most common vowel sound in English doesn’t even have its own letter in the alphabet. It does have a symbol, though, and it looks like this: ǝ. It’s the "uh" sound in an unstressed ...

which are written symbols, as vowels or consonants, the concepts of vowel and consonant properly belong to the domain of speech. In general terms, a consonant is a speech sound formed by some kind ...

This is the fifth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fourth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore ...