My problem is not how to distinguish these two sounds

来源: 于 2011-05-30 08:54:52 [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读：次

My problem is: for a new word (let's say you never see this word before), for example "nook". How do you know the "oo" in it pronounce short "u" or long "u", before check dictionary.