Lessons Unit 1, lesson 46
Every letter, A to Z
English spelling is not one letter = one sound — that's why this course taught sounds first. But no letter gets left behind: here is the whole alphabet, each letter with its most common sound and a word you can play. Where a letter likes to change its sound, the note tells you when.
also eɪ in name, ɑː in father
before e, i, y it becomes s: city
often silent at the end: name
before e, i, y it can become dʒ: giant
silent in hour, honest
also aɪ in time
silent before n: knight
also oʊ in go
always with u: qu = kw
often z between vowels: music
a fast ɾ between vowels: butter
also uː in blue
one letter, two sounds: k + s
as a vowel: i in happy, aɪ in my
Every letter, every sound, every mark — the whole map is yours now. From here the course moves on to joining sounds into syllables and words.