Beautiful Vowels

Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.

Mr Bok believes his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language.

Interesting, huh? Take a look at extracts from Mr. Bok's book below by following the link below. You can also post your own poems using only vowel at the bottom of the page.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7697000/7697762.stm

Featured Link 1--Pronunciation

Every week, there's going to be a list of featured links that I'm recommending you to visit. This week, my first suggestions is this pronunciation page from the University of Iowa. Here you can find interesting animations showing how to produce all the vowel and consonant sounds in English. Since we are just getting started, I suggest you use this great resource to review vowel sounds.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#