Cat or Cut? An Ear Test for a Vowel English Barely Marks

Neither /æ/ nor /ʌ/ has a clean equivalent in Korean or Japanese's smaller vowel inventories, so both regularly fold toward the same mid-open vowel until a learner's ear is trained to split them apart.

English barely bothers to write the difference between these two vowels. Your ear has to do the work instead.

8 rounds · about 90 seconds