The Roman Alphabet Part II: vowel sounds

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The Roman Alphabet Part IIvowel sounds

• Vowel sounds in many languages can be the most
  confusing sounds to deal with because there are
  so many variations.
• For example, take the vowel a in English.
• hat
• about
• hay
• father
• Four different sounds for just one letter!

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In Latin?

• Vowel sounds in Latin are much easier to deal
  with because each vowel has only two sounds.
• Each vowel can be short or long.
• Short vowels have no markings on them thats
  how you know they are short!
• Long vowels have a mark called a macron or long
  mark above them which looks like this
• Sometimes there is a noticeable difference in
  pronunciation and sometimes the difference is
  very subtle, but they are all easy.

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Lets get started!

• a says a as in the word ago.
• a says a as in the word father.
• e says e as in the word beg.
• e says e as in the word hey.
• i says i as in the word big.
• i says i as in the word brief.
• o says o as in the word goat.
• o says o as in the word hope.
• u says u as in the word put.
• u says u as in the word soon.

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Lets put them to work!

• Now that you can pronounce the vowel sounds and
  the consonant sounds you can put them together to
  make whole words. Lets try them and see how it
  goes.

Mars
nox
iam
lege
hic
par
post
fit
sociis
qui
dat
digiti
certe
narrat
mons
mala
cur
quid
iustus
vis