Transcription Practice

The USA and the UK comprise 70 percent of all the English-mother-tongue speakers in the world.

Be able to identify the words that contain the indicated vowel.
[i] audible, hitter, lisp, pity, foreign, Nancy, horrible, slowly, leave, heed, crease, Greek
[I] seen, pitch, sneaker, feast, knit, cheap, sing, fist, greed, sinner, evening, each, eat

[e] sense, aide, starved, sensational, amaze, enough, nation, revolver, nervous, foreign
[ε] locate, perceive, slapped, said, maid, adept, laughed, check, came, tread, gained

[æ] panda, cabin, delta, cobra, bandit, camel, alone, coma, acted, dragon
[α] Hopper, dole, hotter, father, tranquil, market, polar, bargain, magnify, organizer, vanity

[o] could, groan, brook, flowed, boiling, cook, told, boat, crook, poised, posed, boiling

[u] goodness, groom, foot, cooled, woman, root, broom, shook, school, coiled, couch, under
[ai] imply, ironic, point, arrive, halve, advice, save, thyself, fatherly, breath, decide, lake