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and to another episode of my British English pronunciation series
Today we're going to talk about another diphthong, and this one is the 'oh'
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OK, so 'əʊ' is a diphthong, and it is formed of 'ə' and 'ʊ'...əʊ
Ok, so 2 vowel sounds, 1 syllable
So your mouth shape with change throughout the duration of the syllable
əʊ....əʊ....
So I often hear many of my Hispanic students saying 'no', 'go', 'close', 'clothes' 'hope'
This is WRONG!
Stop doing it! You know it's wrong so stop it!
So some words with the letter 'o' are bone, close, home thone
From 'Game of Thrones', I never wanna hear 'Geim of zrons' again
Or worse, 'geim of zrones'
I've heard someone same 'geim of zrones'
zrones! ni voy a decir nada
So firstly we have the 'o', consonant and 'e'
So we have bone, close
Then we have with just plain old 'o'
So we've got both, almost, local, open, over
Then we've got words just ending in 'o': ago, go, no
No is so (ooh there's another one) important
No! No sounds very babyish to us, that's what a baby would say 'no!'
But erm...no...no...must be no!
Then we've got words with 'oa', so boat, goat, coat
not co-at, or bo-at, boat, coat, throat,
toast (not to-ast) toast!
Words ending in 'oe', toe, the name Joe, foe
Words ending in -ow like borrow, or follow, or grow!
Then we've got words with -ou like although, or dough
Ok guys, I hope this lesson helped you
Please make a conscious effort to use this vowel sound correctly
And if you do so (so!!!), If you do so
You will definitely sound more British very, very quickly
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