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This is the list I was looking for at that time. Vowels and representative words 1. /a/ cat 2. /e/ peg, bread 3. /i/ pig, wanted 4. /o/ log, want 5. /u/ plug, love 6. /ae/ pain, day, gate, station 7. /ee/ sweet, heat, thief, these 8. /ie/ tried, light, my, shine, mind 9. /oe/ road, blow, bone, cold ...

Thanks for your posts, eslweb and Buddhaheart. I happened to find an interesting article, titled “The debate about phonics teaching”, in BBC website. Here’s the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4486814.stm Mike Baker: Many teachers fear it does not suit all children's learning styles and a...

What I’m interested to know and discuss is how many phonemes there are in the English language. I’m very curious to know the number in your accent/mother tongue as well.
Thanks.

Wikipedia/Phoneme - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme