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In this lesson, we are going to learn how the sound /u/ is produced by looking at the articulatory organs.
What Type of Sound Is /u/?
/u/ is a long vowel as if you say the word "who."
How to Produce /u/?
As you see, you must close your mouth, round your lips, and push them outwards to make an open circle.
Tip!
As you have seen before in the examples, When two dots come after the sound as in /uː/, It indicates that it is pronounced as a long vowel sound, not as a short or weak sound.
/u/ Around the World
As you can see almost all the common languages in the world have this sound, so you would not find any problems producing it.
Existence | Example | |
|---|---|---|
Mandarin | ✔ | 土 (tǔ) |
Spanish | ✔ | puso |
Hindi | ✔ | ऊन |
Bengali | ✔ | কুল |
Portuguese | ✔ | rua |
Russian | ✔ | пу́ля |
Japanese | x | - |
Vietnamese | ✔ | ru |
Turkish | ✔ | ruh |
French | ✔ | coup |
German | ✔ | Universität |
Italian | ✔ | usi |
Persian | ✔ | رو |
Standard Arabic | ✔ | كُتُب |
Korean | ✔ | 우물 |
Indonesian | ✔ | upah |
Filipino | ✔ | putik |
Hungarian | ✔ | ujj |
Dutch | ✔ | hoed |
Polish | ✔ | duży |
Romanian | ✔ | uda |
Swedish | ✔ | bot |
Czech | ✔ | kup |
Greek | ✔ | μου |
Ukrainian | ✔ | дух |
Urdu | ✔ | اُون |
Listening
Let's listen to the pronunciation of the /u/ sound which has been mentioned below:
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