Vowels
1. Which alphabet sounds are for vowels?
   Take a quiz. Consonants & Vowels UsingEnglish.com
2. The number of vowels sounds English is more than eighteen!

#	phonetic sign	example	note		Peter Piper A Mother Goose Rhyme
1	ei	take	A	Two written vowels (The first vowel is pronounced like the letter of the alphabet.) Practice them EvaEaston	na
2	i:	seat	E		Peter
3	ai	fine	I		Piper
4	ou	boat / bowl	O		na
5	u:	blue / Luke	U		na
6	ae	cat / hat	1 written vowel Practice them EvaEaston		na
7	e	met			peck / peppers
8	I	sit			picked /pickled
9	a	stop / hot			na
10	^	cup / couple / blood / mother			na
11		adept	schwa: unaccented (reduced) vowels Understand it englishplus.com Pracice it soundsofenglish.org		a / of / the
12	(r)	butter	schwa+r Practice them foniks		peter / piper / peppers
13	a:	father			na
14	:	ball / call / four	Practice them EvaEaston		na
15	I	boy / join			na
16	au	now	Practice it EvaEaston		na
17	u	put / could / book	Practice u: vs u EvaEaston		na
18	e(r)	where / air	+r Practice them EvaEaston		Where's
19	I(r)	near / here			na
20	U(r)	pure / tourist			na
21	:(r)	turn / learn			na
22	a:(r)	arm / farther			na
23	:(r)	store			na

3. Short stories, poems, and rhymes are useful for practicing the pronunciation.
   (1) Peter Piper (A Mother Goose Rhyme): Listen and repeat eaglesweb.com
            Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
            A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
            If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
            Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
   (2)Listen and repeat using free texts and audio clips library Repeat After Us
   (3)Pronunciation exercises on the schwa sound CLA
4. Pronunciation practice using minimal pairs (ship/sheep) shiporsheep.com
5. Animated articulatory diagram helps you to understand how to pronounce. University of Iowa

Information
1. UsingEnglish.com provides a lot of resources of ESL (quizzes, links, articles, and etc.). UsingEnglish.com
2. Authentic American Pronunciation EvaEaston
3. CLA English On-Line provides many Interactive English Exercises CLA