Hey everyone,
it is Jill Diamond and I am here today to talk to you
about Dipthongs. Diph-thong.
It's like ding-dong . It's like the ringing of a bell.
Actually, what I wanna talk about is how a diphthong is different from a
pure vowel. And maybe you know what I'm talking about. Check it out.
A diphthong is when two pure vowels work
together to create one syllable. So for example,
let's say E. E.
This is a pure vowel,
like in the word "see".
Okay,
let's take another pure vowel EH. Eh.
As in the word "met".
I met him yesterday, met.
When we take those two vowels Eh and
E and we put them together in a diphthong,
we get "A".
Watch that. So I start with my jaw down, and then I bring it up A.
And I finish in that E, which is that big smile.
Here's the thing about a diphthong.
Most people don't finish the sound.
They get the beginning of the Eh.
They may even get the beginning of the E, E. Right?
But they don't hold it and complete it. A.
That's why I like to think about diphthongs as
going over a speed bump. Speed bump.
When you drive a car and you go over a speed bump,
your car has to slow down and the first two wheels go
over the speed bump,
and then the back two wheels go over the speed bump.
Are you doing that when you make diphthongs?
Are you thinking about both sets of wheels,
both vowels making the complete,
the completion, or the complete sound? A.
So I exaggerate those back wheels coming over the speed bump.
A.
And I really use my muscles in my face.
Let's take another diphthong. How about.
Oi? Oi.
In this case, we also finish with that E sound,
but we start with AW like the word "law".
A. And when I say AW,
my jaw is further down than when I said EH,
I say AW. And my lips are a little bit rounded, aren't they?
AW? So I start with the AW,
the first two wheels that are going over the speed bump,
and I finish with E, the back two wheels. Listen,
OI, OI,
like the word boy.
And I finish with the smile.
I get both of those sounds over the speed bump.
So I want you to think about the diphthong
as going over a speed bump and getting both
sets of wheels over that bump. How about that?
Go ahead and practice your diphthongs.
Remember how important the vowel sounds are when we stress our
syllables, right? Remember how important the vowels are. Get your diphthongs,
finish those sounds.
Get both sets of wheels over the speed bump.
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