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From Sachi’s accident 2 days ago, she learned that Mami can’t pronounce the vowel sound of ‘bone’. It comes out as ‘born’. 

With my Japanese students, I’m trying to tackle one vowel sound at a time. Day 1 was ‘cat’. Day 2 was ‘bird’. We look for 20 words with that sound, and then I ask students to make a sentence with as many of those words as they can.

Of course, all of this is just intuitive. I’m not sure if it is effective, or ‘sound’ pedagogy. But it’s a start. It’s worth a try. Today’s sound is schwa.