LingoflyE e
«e» is a vowel of the Slovenian script, Gajica, read as “e as in met, often a faint murmur”. Mostly “e” as in met. But it can also be a schwa, the short murmur of the first vowel in “about” — sometimes even under stress: pes is “puhss”. For example, in the word “pes” — dog. The Slovenian alphabet has 25 letters in total, and this character can be played right here. Slovenian does not mumble its unstressed vowels: o stays “o”. Only e wobbles on the go.
In short
| Character | E e |
| Sound | e as in met, often a faint murmur |
| What it is | a vowel |
In our course the character comes 6th of 25, its neighbours in the course are d and f, appears in roughly every other word on this site.
How it sounds
Mostly “e” as in met. But it can also be a schwa, the short murmur of the first vowel in “about” — sometimes even under stress: pes is “puhss”
The character in a word
A lone character is hard to remember: memory holds on to meaning, and a letter has none. The word it stands in provides that anchor.
- dog
The character in the “familiar to the eye, foreign to the ear” group
Seven letters where your English reading habit will betray you.
Words with this character
How to remember this character
A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound (for «e» it is “e as in met, often a faint murmur”, as in the word “pes”), see the right answer.
And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 25 letters — at once.
- It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
- Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many timesDonovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
Frequently asked
How does the Slovenian character e read?
As “e as in met, often a faint murmur” — it is a vowel of the Slovenian script, Gajica. Mostly “e” as in met. But it can also be a schwa, the short murmur of the first vowel in “about” — sometimes even under stress: pes is “puhss”. For example, in the word “pes” — dog.