User:Slide By Mode/Plover vowels for five-vowel speakers

English has a bunch of vowels. But many languages only have five. In Spanish, those are /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/ and /u/. Since those vowels are also used in some other languages, this guide might be useful for speakers of other languages.
 * If it makes a sound similar to a Spanish "a" sound:
 * If it's spelled with an a, use.
 * If it's spelled with a u, use.
 * If it makes a Spanish "e" sound, as in the Spanish e which is found in English words like "fell", "sent" and "best", but also words like "bear", "tear" and "there", it's usually stenoed with  or , the spelling of the word, so if it's spelled with "ea" it's probably  , if it's just spelled with an e it's probably.
 * If it makes something that sounds like a Spanish "i", it depends on the vowel length. But Spanish doesn't have vowel length, so you can look at the spelling.
 * Words like "till", "fill" and "fit" get written with.
 * Words with ee, like "feel" an "feet" get . Words with e+consonant+e (such as the "ete" in words like "complete" and "delete", or the "ere" in "here") get  . Words where that sound is spelled "ea" ("fear", "mean") usually get written with , but if that would cause two words to get written the same way ("here" and "hear"), you write the "ea" one with.
 * If it makes a sound like the Spanish "o", that too has vowel length:
 * use  if it's spelled like an o ("doll", "stop", "pot", and for some reason also "port", sport and "court").
 * Use  if it's spelled with an a ("draw", "all", "naught").
 * Keep in mind that words prononced with "ou", even if spelled with "o" aren't written with "o" or "ou", those are written with . This diphthong is "mislabeled" in Plover's documentation, in the sense that
 * If it's pronounced with a Spanish "u", use, confusingly, that's three different sounds in English, and Plover relies partially on spelling to distinguish two of them.
 * If it's spelled with "oo", it's usually
 * If it's spelled with "ue", "eu", "ew" or "u"+consonant+"e" (examples: "trUE", "fEUd", "drEW", "crUdE"), use
 * If it's just spelled with a "u" (example: "pull"), use.
 * Dipthongs:
 * If it sounds like "iu" together, it's pretty likely to be.
 * If it sounds like "oi", use.
 * If it sounds like "ei",.
 * If it sounds like like "ou",.
 * If it sounds like "au",.
 * And if it sounds like "ai",.

I hope I explained these well enough (also, I don't know every language out there).