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Vowel Diphthongs | Letters and Sounds

Welcome back to teaching in Room Nine. Our Region's Largest Classroom. My name is Julia, and I'm one of the second grade teachers at the Soulard School, but here for teaching in Room Nine, my lessons ...
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Vowel Digraphs | Letters and Sounds

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9". Our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School, and here for "Teaching in Room 9", this time around ...
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How Many Vowels Are There in English? (Hint: It’s More Than AEIOUY.)

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...
Los Angeles Times

Vowel sounds made by baboons show that the roots of human speech may go back 25 million years

Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...