"GREAT !!!" ****

“Good app, just need more sounds like large and short for the vowels.”

By: Valolun (iTunes US Store, 19 June 2009)

Thanks for your kind words.

Just in case you’ve missed them, we do have the common vowel sounds. If you touch the right arrow to move between the different sets of sounds, you’ll come across the vowel sounds represented by two letters (like “ai”, “ea”, “ee” and so on). These are sometimes referred to as “long vowel sounds”. The short ones are just the single-letter sounds you’d expect to see.

We do miss some of the less common vowel sounds at the moment (for instance, “a” can make five or more different sounds depending on what word it is in). Often, these unusual cases are better taught as part of learning “tricky words” - words that are in common usage, but have unusual spelling. As yet, we’ve not tackled these, but they are on the to-do list.