Phonetic transcription

Vowels
[:] indicates that the
vowel is long.
[i] ship no point = very short sound
[I] happy a point on the i (suggesting the sound is a bit longer)
[I:] deep a long vowel - see the :
[E] pen
[ä] man sound between a and e , so both are joined together = ä
[A:] arm a long vowel - see the :
[o] pot the English short sound of o has something of a or a ...
so rotate the letter = o
[O:] door a long vowel - see the :
to show it is different from the Dutch oo, a little piece
on the left of the o has been wiped out = O:
[V] cup u < v < put upside down = V
[u] put a frivolous way to spell u = u
[U:] June a long vowel - see the :
[e] the e rotate the letter = e
[3:] shirt a long vowel - see the :
a capital E in handwriting, turned around = 3:

Diphthongs
[Ei] eight
[ai] fine
[Oi] boys
[au] house
[eu] home
[ie] near
[Ee] hair
[ue] pure

Consonants
(apart from the normal ones)

[S] she a long stretched s < S < S

[tS] cheap
[Z] usual a z with a tail
[dZ] gin
[T] thing an open mouth (lips) and tongue
[D] then
[N] ring n and g put together < N
[g] good

Exercises on the pronunciation of the sound -

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