aa or a? (car or up?)
ai a • aa a a a ee aa ee • a •
My brother Mark loves butter. He asked me to cut some
e • u o • a a ai O i ee ee oo
bread and put on some butter. I told him he eats too
a a a a ee e ee a o • a ai æ
much butter, but he said he just wanted one slice, and
e ei ee aa • a i i • aa aa • aa O
anyway he's started running in the park after class, so
eː a i • a ee a æu
there's nothing to worry about.
aa, a or æ? (car, up or cat?)
aa æ aa • æ e oo • æ ei • æ
Last Saturday, Mark and Anne went to a café to have
a ei æ æ • ei • • ei • a O a ei
lunch. They sat at a table and waited, but no-one came
• ei eː ɔː • æ o a aa o æ ee
to take their orders. Anne got hungry. Mark got angry.
æ ei • aa a ee ai • æ u
"That waiter's passed us three times and hasn't looked
æ a a aa aa • æuwa ei e æ O
at us once!" After half an hour, they went back home.
aa or ᴈː? (car or bird?)
ai æ • ᴈː aa o ᴈː ei • ᴈː aa • O ei
I had to work hard on Thursday. The first part was OK,
a e ai u • ᴈː i • i • i o • •
but then I put some dirty dishes in the dishwasher and
ᴈː i o • i i ᴈː O ee æ • ᴈː
turned it on and it didn't work. So we had to work
aa • ee e ee i ai æ e ai ᴈː ai aa
fast to clean everything by hand. Then I hurt my arm
• æ • O O ᴈː ei a • • a • •
and had to go home. I heard later that some customers
o æ ee • æu • ᴈː • a eː a ᴈː • a
got angry about the service, but there just weren't enough
aa • • æ ei
staff at the café.