MASTER English Pronunciation The 8 Diphthong Vowel Sounds

Hello! and welcome back to Easy English with James! Today we're going to look at diphthongs. Diphthongs. What are they? How do they work? and why are they so important if you want to sound more natural when you speak English? If you want to know the answer watch the rest of this lesson okay let's go okay diphthong what is it in english vowel sounds can be divided into monophthongs that's single vowel sounds like If you want to learn them check out my video here that made previously to help you master those sounds okay monothongs single sounds diphthongs they are double sounds double vowels okay imagine taking two vowels like and and combining them together what do you get you get diphthong okay where one sound moves into the other sound okay what this means is that when you're saying word with diphthong you're actually only pronouncing one syllable for example in the word ear ear that is one syllable monosyllabic word okay but it contains diphthong where there are an okay it's not two separate vowels it's one vowel sound it's not it's and the mouth moves from the first vowel position to the second vowel position naturally like so okay diphthong comes from the greek word diphthong which literally means two sounds two sounds combined together to make one english vowel sound okay in the word boy we have two different vowel letters and but we combine it into one sound one diphthong okay same with toy and many others okay so our first diphthong sound is the sound okay you'll find this in words like beer beer or near near or even here here perhaps fear fear listen closely fear fear hear pier near okay it glides from one vowel into the other ear if you want to master this vowel sound this diphthong try this! fear the beer hall is not near here". fear the beer hall is not near here" Lots of that sound in this sentence, fear the beer hall is not near here". Now, listen at full speed, fear the beer hall is not near here". How natural does that sound! fear the beer hall is not near here". okay, practice practice practice! "fear" "here" "near" Our next sound is this is not very common okay it's quite rare it's only really heard in very posh rp accents like the one the queen has when she speaks okay you'll find this in words like okay, again, think that most english speakers don't use this very often and in fact normally they "substitute", that means they change this sound to simple or long vowel sound tour and poor okay but people who speak RP (received pronunciation) often use this so if you want to sound really "posh" try that too for an example sentence of this one try this didn't do the tour because was too poor didn't do the tour because was too poor okay just remember that when you use that you do sound little bit posh okay well done the next one is really common sound air air air now already you probably guessed this is found in words like air that thing that's all around us air but you'll also see this in words like pear fair hair there over there or over there okay air it starts off with an air and it goes into an air air okay air fair hair you'll also hear this in where where okay where where and there where there try again air air notice that the mouth starts quite open air and closes air air for an example sentence with this one try this the bear was in his lair and the girl's hair was very fair fair means light like blonde hair okay the bear was in his lair larry is like place where they live monster lives is lair the bear was in his lair and the girl's hair was very fair fair again means light so you can say someone has fair skin she has fair skin okay fair lair the bear was in his lair and the girl's hair was very fair okay practice that one over and over again because it's really common the next one is the this one is probably the most common diphthong in the english language it's found all over the places in lots of different words okay you'll know this from the letter okay when you're reading the alphabet the letter actually has this diphthong as its sound okay you'll find this in words like day say pay lay stay okay lots and lots of different words okay any time you hear the sound even when somebody says hey hey that's how common this sound is watch closely though it's not like that it goes it's rounded sound kind of goes okay stay pay lay bay okay all of these sounds include that difficult diphthong for an example sentence with this one try this that day didn't pay to stay in the bay that day didn't pay to stay in the bay that day didn't pay to stay in the bay a-a-a-a-a-a-a okay the next sound is the oi this one has lot of movement there's lot of movement in the jaw and the mouth you'll find this in words like boy or toy or koi or soy or even the common oy okay when you're shouting at someone oi that's the sound you're making that's the diphthong boy toy oy soy koi watch closely and try to copy my mouth movement exactly as you practice for an example sentence with this one try this oy boy pass me the toy don't be so coy oy boy pass me the toy don't be so coy oy boy pass me the toy don't be so coy oy boy pass me the toy don't be so coy the next one is also quite common it is you'll notice that in lot of these diphthong sounds the mouth closes at the end it starts open and then begins to close in oi this one you'll find in words like sky or the question word why why sky hi my okay you'll find this in lots and lots of different words in english watch closely again starts open for an example senses of this try this the sky blue tie was hard to buy the sky blue tie was hard to buy the sky blue tie was hard to buy now you'll also hear this lot when someone's really angry maybe in movie or when somebody's playing an online game and they want to kill the enemy because they'll say die die die die die die die is that sound die okay die die die so if you want to practice this one don't go around shouting at everybody saying die die die die die okay but it's good way to practice okay the next sound is the just like this one is represented by its letter in the alphabet when you say the letter or you're reading the alphabet and you get to this letter you say the diphthong is the sound that represents this letter no no no snow no it's snowing no it's snowing watch closely because this one's bit tricky you have to really position your jaw kind of feels like you're going like this no there's some snow you'll find this really often in english in words like boat or coat or of course no show even in words that are really common like go go so this one is super important to master no snow go boat and coat try this example sentence the boat was no show so we couldn't go unless we had to row the boat was no-show so we couldn't go unless we had to row row the boat okay the popular nursery rhyme also row row row the boat gently down the stream has this sound row go boat coat okay practice that one lot the final sound for today is my favorite it is you'll know this from when someone hurts you and you go ow okay you'll find this in words like mouth or now or even when an animal makes sound we say growl foul foul now how okay ow watch closely the time is now okay the time is now for you to learn excellent english pronunciation so make sure if you're enjoying this video to hit that like and subscribe button so you can see all of my future videos okay let's try an example sentence with this one the owl flew south so my mouth let out growl the owl flew south so my mouth let out growl the owl flew south so my mouth let out growl how growl foul mouth okay ow ow well done that's all the diphthong sounds now what we're going to do is have little test okay what is the diphthong sound in this word loud loud which diphthong is that loud loud you'd be correct if you said the owl sound well done what diphthong sound is in the word pain pain you might hear really common expression in english no pain no gain which means without difficulty you can't get anything good no pain no gain what diphthong sound is in that sentence ain't pain gain you will be correct if you say that one that looks like the letter pay pain pain okay what is the diphthong sound in the word light light light okay you will be correct again if you say the lie light light light what is the diphthong sound in the word fear fear fear you will be correct if you say the ear sound what is the diphthong sound in the word where where or fair what sound can you hear you would be correct if you said the air air okay now let's try something much harder okay in the next sentence you're going to hear couple of words and within them words there are five diphthongs five diphthongs can you guess which diphthongs are in that word okay pause the video and practice and then see if you can guess the right diphthongs okay listen closely no highway cowboy no highway cowboy no highway cowboy okay think about that no hi way cowboy no highway cowboy what are the five diphthong sounds in that sentence Ok, you would be correct if you said, these ones! You've got the in 'no' you've got the in 'high' you've got the in 'way'. "no highway" and then you've got two more, 'cow' the 'ow' sound and 'boy'. Remember this, the mouth moves lot to make diphthong sounds so when you see me say, "no highway cowboy" you can see the mouth is kind of crazy okay they're not common sentences but no highway cowboy no highway cowboy okay it's really good sentence for practicing five of those diphthong sounds so practice that one as much as you can no highway cowboy no highway cowboy okay thank you very very much for joining me today in this lesson if you watch it again and again promise you your pronunciation will become more natural and improve so much okay remember if you like this video to hit that like button and subscribe so you can see all of my future videos good luck and i'll see you again for the next video bye you