Can you use the "Ha, Heh, Hee, Ho" method for learning Japanese vowels?


In Spanish, you can use the ["Ha, Heh, Hee, Ho"
method](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orOW9eRQfpE) for learning Spanish
vowels.

For example, A in Spanish sounds like the 'a' in Ha!

E in Spanish sounds like the 'e' in Heh!

I in Spanish sounds like the 'ee' in Hee!

O in Spanish sounds like the 'o' in Ho!

and then U is like the OO in food.

Does this apply to Japanese vowels as well? I have listened to Japanese vowels
and they sound identical. But I thought I should double check, so I don't
learn them wrongly.




Unless you put stress on them, it works as well. (You may find "U" a little
different in New Tokyo dialect, which is a virtual standard, but that's beyond
the category of Standard Japanese.) If you put stress on a vowel, it's
prolonged and includes pitch shift, which is taken as sequence of two sounds
to ears of a Japanese speaker.




Unless you put stress on them, it works as well. (You may find "U" a little
different in New Tokyo dialect, which is a virtual standard, but that's beyond
the category of Standard Japanese.) If you put stress on a vowel, it's
prolonged and includes pitch shift, which is taken as sequence of two sounds
to ears of a Japanese speaker.

