Lesson 31 --- The Short O Sound vs. The Short U Sound

         
   
  Objective: Distinguishing between the short O sound and the short U sound
  1. Many English learners have hard time distinguishing the short O sound from the short U sound, and vice versa.
  2. Here, I want to offer a short cut to help you compare those two sounds with sample words. Just click knot and nut to compare these two words side by side. You also can go through the whole list to see more sample words.

I hope that you can distinguish the subtle difference between the short O sound and the short U sound now.

 
 

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