Pronunciation Guide

I recently realized that I have been throwing characters like ä, ū, and ə at you without ever explaining what I mean by them. So that's what this is.

Character	Examples
ă	apple
ā	ate
ä	all*
ĕ	egg
ē	even
ə	about, taken, pencil, eloquent, supply, sibyl
ĭ	igloo
ī	item
ō	omen
ŏ	on*
ö	foot
ŭ	undo
ū	zoom, dune
ch	chore
dh	there
kh	Juárez, lechaim†
ŋ	hung
sh	shirt
th	thin

*/ä/ sounds almost the same as /ŏ/, but I'm going to keep them both.
†I'm considering representing the /kh/ sound as /x/ instead. Which is less confusing?