CONCLUSION - Short vs. Long Vowel Sounds (English & Spanish)

        First of all it is necessary to state that we call long or short vowel to the ones that has merely quality of production and articulation. These names have nothing to do with the amount or period of time they last within a word. This rule applies to the majority of romantic languages. So in English as in Spanish we have many vowels that could be consider long or short depending on the context or in the way they are being produced.

            After analyzing the whole content, I can infer just one thing: vowels in Spanish have just one way of production, one spelling and the same articulators always they are emitted. In English, in the other hand, we have the same vowels but they require many ways of production, spelling and the articulators vary according to the used lexical combination we are applying. In English we can find many accents that usually changes or omits the pronunciation of certain vowel sounds. So it is quite more difficult than in Spanish; this language just leads with the five vowels and their only one way to pronounce them and almost always, they cannot be omitted to get communicated. So in conclusion, vowels in Spanish are neither long nor short and it is important to remark that in Spanish we donot have schwa sound as a vowel or even as a recognized sound.

Here I am leaving another video of the professor JenniferESL about production of vowel sounds in English to reinforce the acquired facts we already have in mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMM_hwyHxaI

Now, here I am posting a link of a video that explains how to produce vowels in Spanish. It is leaded by a native speaker who makes reference to the consistence of Spanish way to produce sounds and to the uniformity of Spanish pronunciation. He explains how to take advantage of the clear and sharp way of production of Spanish vowel sounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR4tBcOP79M