@Dano
I’ve seen this advice before about vowels, but I’ve always thought it’s a bit misleading…
A couple examples…
- “A” in “cat” is short, but that’s not how the A is typically used in Tagalog.
- “O” in boat is long, and it is how we use O often in Tagalog (“mo”).
- “I” in Tagalog is often pronounced like “ee” and not short “i” (as in English word “bit”)…and, again confusingly and contradicting the above advice, “ee” is the same sound as long “e” (again, not a short vowel) in English word “keep”.
- Also…Tagalog “u” is often pronounced like English “oo” as in “loop”, which is considered the long vowel version of “oo” (in contrast to the short vowel version, like in wood).