Uzbek lessons (tutorial): #6 Letters Ss, Oo, O’o’, automaticity in introduction, with audio

This time we will take a closer look at the letters Ss, Oo and O’o’ and words with them, and also bring dialogues when meeting in Uzbek to automaticity.

The lesson, like others, contains audio from Uzbek natives. As usual, part of the lesson from my Uzbek language tutorial is available to everyone, and part is available to site donors. Also, only donors (it’s not expensive — from $3 per month) have access to the answers to the exercises from the previous lesson. So become those who support the site — the benefits are mutual.

Uzbek letters Ss, Oo and O’o’

Exercise 1.

Listen and repeat.


Картинки и слова/ Pictures and words	Буквы (латиница)/ Letters (Latin)	Буквы (кириллица)/ Letters (Cyrillic)	Примеры/ Examples
soat	Ss	Cc	salom, sinf, sen, sakkiz
ona	Oo	Oo	olti, xona, choy
go'sht	O'o'	Ў ў	o'n, to'rt. to'qqiz, xo'p

Oo and O’o’ are different vowel letters, they denote different sounds and words with them, in the presence of all other identical letters, have different meanings. Oo is often (not always!) pronounced like the vowel in the English words hot, call. O’o’ gives a sound similar, to some extent, to that in row, fur. To print the letter O’o’, one of several types of apostrophes is placed next to Oo, and in handwriting, we use a tilde.

As regards the consonant letter Ss, it can be mentioned that when pronouncing it separately or in the alphabet, you can say “es” or “se”.

soat — clock, watch

ona — mother

go’sht — meat

Exercise 2.

Listen and repeat.