To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the sixth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...

We looked at each themed word families where we changed the short vowel sounds but kept that ... What are some other examples? Yeah. Do and to. You have that, making that long sound.

An R-controlled vowel is when a vowel sound does not make a long or a short sound, because of the R. Remember, our vowels that make the vowel sounds are A, E, I, O, U, and oftentimes the letter Y.

LABOV: Well, say up, because it means that the point of the tongue that helps form the vowel is higher up in the mouth. But the difference between man and man or man. The short vowels in English ...

This is the first of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the first of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore ...