American English Vowel Sounds: The OH /oʊ/ as in ROSE
Visit the updated ROSE BOAT lesson for 100 Super Common ROSE BOAT & OLIVE SOCK Words.
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to pronounce the OH as in ROSE vowel sound. You hear this sound in words like “home,” “control,” and “appropriate.”
You might think this sound is pretty easy and you’ve already got it just right. But you may be missing the way this sound is subtly different in American English than the O sound in most other languages.
Let’s dive in!
Continue your practice with this list of
100 Common OH, /oʊ/ as in ROSE Words
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| go | low | associate | sofa | quote | 
| no | moment | hotel | blow | snow | 
| most | although | soldier | clothes | motion | 
| so | oh | owner | coast | bowl | 
| only | local | coach | below | host | 
| those | control | total | throat | ocean | 
| over | role | notice | photo | row | 
| know | whole | vote | appropriate | totally | 
| own | hope | alone | soul | sodium | 
| old | road | global | emotional | smoke | 
| show | phone | nobody | poll | vocal | 
| program | window | joke | proposal | flow | 
| hold | close | stone | impose | opposed | 
| home | throw | slow | code | expose | 
| though | goal | boat | location | close | 
| both | focus | suppose | loan | lower | 
| almost | note | roll | notion | post | 
| social | approach | explode | broken | opponent | 
| profile | growth | coat | component | 
 exposure  | 
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 open  | 
hello | promote | zone | 
 negotiate  | 
Visit the updated ROSE BOAT lesson for 100 Super Common ROSE BOAT & OLIVE SOCK Words.