How Now Brown Cow | English pronunciation practice | English for Hungarians

How Now Brown Cow | English pronunciation practice | English for Hungarians. In this English pronunciation practice, I am going to look into specific English diphthongs, the /aʊ/ and the /əʊ/ or /oʊ/. In spelling the corresponding letters are “ow“ and “ou“ as in cow /kaʊ/ and cloud /klaʊd/. As Hungarian is a phonetic language, which means that the basic rule is that all individual letters have a corresponding sound and the letters must be pronounced. One letter stands for one sound and the letter “o“ always represents the sound /ɒ/. This creates the situation when the word “cow“ is pronounced, many times it is a typical mistake that the correct /kəʊ/ will become /kɔː/. Not only is the word “cow“ problematic, but also all the words that t contain an “o“ letter will be likely to be mispronounced. How Now Brown Cow is an English pronunciation practice, I was focusing on words where the letter “o“ (letters “ou“ and “ow“) is pronounced as diphthongs /əʊ/ and /oʊ/. There are example words and example sentences. Also, there are a few homographs like row /rəʊ/ and row /raʊ/ with the differences in meaning explained. If you would like to find out more about me, please visit my website @ How Now Brown Cow