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Concourse 2

Teacher-yourself transcription: vowels

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Here, you can get a little practice in transcribing the vowels of English.

There are 13 pure vowels and 8 diphthongs to transcribe and this little test asks you to transcribe all of them.
For now, you can ignore the consonants in the words and only transcribe the vowel sound you hear.
We will take this in two parts.

1

The pure vowels
  1. Play the audio from here.
    You can pause the recording at any time and go back to anything you want to hear again by dragging the progress bar.
    As you listen, transcribe the vowel sound you hear in each word.
  2. Click eye to check.
2

The diphthongs
  1. Play the audio from here.
    You can pause the recording at any time and go back to anything you want to hear again by dragging the progress bar.
    As you listen, transcribe the diphthong vowel sound you hear in each word.
  2. Click eye to check.

If you would like to try the complete transcriptions, listen again.

  1. The pure vowels

  2. Click eye to check.

  3. The diphthongs

  4. Click eye to check.

Click here to go back to the course and carry on.