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it like the "eat" in meat

iu like the "ew" in pew

o like the "aw" in brawl

oi like the "oy" in toy

ok like the "ock" in mock

on like the "awn" in pawn

ong as in song

ot like the "ought" in bought

ou like the "o" in two

u like the "oo" in too

ui like the "ooey" in gooey

uk like the "uke" in fluke

un like the "oon" in baboon

ung like the "oon" in Loon with a "g" sound

ut like the "oot" in soot

yu as in you

yun like the "oon" in Loon with an "y" sound

yut like you with an "it" sound

In Cantonese, some vowels can be pronounced in a more drawn-out way. In the next section we will show how these sounds are pronounced.

aai like eye

aak like the "ock" in sock

aam like the "om" in mom

aan like the "on" in onward

aang like the "ong" in song

aap like the "op" in opponent

at like the "ot" in dot

au like the "ow" in now

Pronunciation Guide to Japanese and Okinawan

Japanese syllables are from the point of view of a native English speaker easier to pronounce (excluding perhaps the consonant "r" that is rolled) than many other Asian languages, but efforts to write them using roman letters are somewhat hampered by the large number of homonyms that appear. Though these words appear identical when written in roman letters, their meanings, which are often very different, are readily apparent when using Chinese characters. Nonetheless using roman letters one can easily approximate the Japanese pronunciation of any word.