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 What happens when you put a vowel and tone together? You get a "final", the rear part of the syllable, everything but the initial consonant. It uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings.
-Take a look at the first page of this [[table of all finals in MTL|chart of MTL finals]] and see how many finals you can read. Ignoring the tones and the ''v'', there are only about 32 commonly-used finals. On the second page, there are another 12 ''v''-nasalized vowels. Once you can read these two pages, any syllable you see will just boil down to a final either with or without a consonant in front.
+Take a look at the first page of this [[:File:Abridged table of finals of Taiwanese in MTL.pdf|chart of MTL finals]] and see how many finals you can read. Ignoring the tones and the ''v'', there are only about 32 commonly-used finals. On the second page, there are another 12 ''v''-nasalized vowels. Once you can read these two pages, any syllable you see will just boil down to a final either with or without a consonant in front.
 If you noticed a few finals that are spelled a little differently from what we taught so far, we will explain those next.