Souding out Consonant and Vowel COn't

All the vowels are going to look the same, but the vowels will sound different depending on a particular consonant.

What you have to do here is; say the consonant and the vowels you have learned from the previous lesson together.
You take the first sound you hear from the consonant and add the vowel to it.

For example:
Take the consonant "GAR" and the vowel "AH". GAR + AH = GAH
For example:
Take the consonant "GAR" and the vowel "OH". GAR + OH = GOH
For example:
Take the consonant "GAR" and the vowel "A"(long 'a' sound as in pay). GAR + A = GA
You do this for all the vowels you have learn with every consonants you have learn.
You will hear my mommy say the consonant, then the vowel and the consonant and vowel together.
For example: "AR sat AH. AH"
"GAR sat AH. GAH"
"TDAR sat OH. TDOH"
"sat" denouces a vowel is going to be introduce.

For the consonant that has an "or" sound at the end(e.g; gor, kor, ngor, jor chor, nyor, dor, to, dtor, tor, nor, bpor, por, yor, ror, lor, wor) they are a slightly off when you sound out it with the vowels. They do not follow the rules described above. For example:
GOR + AH = GAH
GOR sat AH = GAH ("to marry" in Khmer)
instead it's GOR sat AH = GEER
General Rule:
sat AH becomes sat EER
sat ET becomes sat IT
You just going to give it a softer sound with the "-or" consonants. Don't worry too much. Where you begin to read, you'll know what sound right and what doesn't.
You have to listen to how the consonants with "or" sound at the end , sounds with the vowels. As you will notice a few will not sound as you may think when you sound it out.
I'm going to leave it up to you do listen careful and find the ones that does not follow the vowel sounding rules. There like 2-4 of them.

Click the Play button to hear the "GOR" vowels.

POR

Click the Play button to hear the POR vowels.

Let's see where VOWEL and CONSONANT GO.

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