Letter to sounds associations The video says the word; then breaks it down into the individual phonemes, highlighting the letters that make the sound, blending them together to show how the word is formed. The phonic alphabet symbol, representing the sound, appears in the top right hand corner. Educational video for children in which they will learn the /a/ sound in English through a fun song and numerous examples alongside our favorite seal, Feli. ... Short a makes the vowel sound of a, as in cap, tap, fat and bat. The long /a/ sound is pronounced like the word ‘Alien’. It is the singer's sound or the sound you make at the doctor when your throat is checked. An/m: When A is next to N or M, it sounds like the sound between a Long A and a Short A with a Y at the end.
