hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English
pronunciation sound forty of the forty four thousands of American English
number forty that means are only four more after this one we have eight letter
and letter combinations to make up this sound it's an easy sound a simple sound
to me just sounds like I now some of these words are a little deceiving
though and if you were to just read them in a book and we're not very
knowledgeable in English you might not get the pronunciation correct in this
case we have liar it looks like L a ir air air layer layer
this is liar liar so if you do not tell the truth if you aren't a truthful
person people might say that you are a liar a liar someone who does not tell
the truth di in the word eye height take off the H you have eight the number
eight see that's what I mean it's difficult to sound these out so there's
a lot of things you just have to remember height height how high is that
building what is your height well I'm so many feet tall so many feet and so many
inches tall height the height of that building is tremendous height we have e
ye in the word I my eyeball eyeball I live I brow I a rib eye steak
and the letter I in the word dime dime an American coin is a dime and it's
worth 10 cents and pennies one tenth of a dollar dying
ie for the word lie lie look at that we have a person who lies is a liar
and what they do is lie to not tell the truth they told a lie they are a liar
you why for the word guy guy it's slang for a man a boy a male person we could
say well my neighbor is such a nice guy he always offers to help me out guy GUI
the letter Y in the word d ry throw throw I dry something is wet something
is dry opposites wet and dry dry perhaps after you take a shower you get
a towel and you dry yourself off ye the word die die now this isn't the kind of
die like you're dead oh my gosh don't die now this is as in a
color if you have well like this happens to be a black shirt so there's black dye
in the material to make it black you have a blue shirt blue dye dye to dye
your clothing a different color women like to dye their hair so do a lot of
men maybe I should not maybe ah that's the end of this lesson thank
you for watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson
good bye for now