/eə/ sound
This diphthong sounds like the word 'air'. Letters used to show this sound are: 'air' as in 'hair' /heə/, 'ear' as in 'bear' /beə/, 'are' as in 'care' /keə/, and 'aire' as in 'Claire' /kleə/. To make this sound, first say /e/, then move your tongue backwards and close your mouth a bit to say /ə/.
Some common words which practice the pronunciation of /əʊ/ include the following: with "o"+ magic e: alone, bone, close, code, decode, episode, hole, home, hope, joke, lone, note, phone, pole, quote, role, rope, slope, smoke, stole, stone, those, vote, whole.
IPA phoneme /aɪ/ IPA phoneme /aɪ/ IPA phoneme /aɪ/ In English, both in Received Pronunciation and in General American, the IPA phonetic symbol /aɪ/ corresponds to the vowel sound in words like "price", “fly" and "time".
/ɑɪ/ is a diphthong, which is a combination of two different vowel sounds. To begin, place your tongue low in your mouth, and shifted toward the back, to say /ɑ/. Then, as you vibrate your vocal cords, lift your tongue high in the mouth and shift it forward, to say /ɪ/.
This is the aʊ sound, as in the words: about /әbaʊt/ out /aʊt/ ground /graʊnd/
Vowel Sound / oʊ / as in "go" - American English Pronunciation.
To make the /ɔɪ/ sound:
Round your lips into an “o” shape as you do so. Then, as you vibrate your vocal cords, lift your tongue high in the mouth and shift it toward the front, to say /ɪ/. The transition between these two positions should be very quick.
/ʊə/ sound
= + Although the first letter of this diphthong is /ʊ/, the sound is more like /uː/. To make this sound, say /uː/, then open your mouth, stop rounding your lips, and move your tongue down to say /ə/.
/ʊ/is a high, back, lax vowel. To make it, your tongue should be lifted high in the mouth (slightly lower than /u/), and shifted toward the back. Keep your lips relaxed and slightly open. Then, vibrate your vocal cords as you push air out of your mouth.
Long vowel is the term used to refer to vowel sounds whose pronunciation is the same as its letter name. The five vowels of the English spelling system ('a', 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u') each have a corresponding long vowel sound /eɪ/, /i/, /ɑɪ/, /oʊ/, /yu/.
Despite there being just 26 letters in the English language there are approximately 44 unique sounds, also known as phonemes. The 44 sounds help distinguish one word or meaning from another. Various letters and letter combinations known as graphemes are used to represent the sounds.
Ezh (Ʒ ʒ) /ˈɛʒ/, also called the "tailed z", is a letter the lower case form of which is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), representing the voiced postalveolar fricative consonant.
The biggest difference between these two sounds is that /ɒ/ is a short vowel and /ɔ:/ is a long one. The mouth position is also slightly different, with the mouth in /ɔ:/ being slightly tighter and more rounded.
Examples of the ʃ sound
Here are some words that begin with the/ʃ/ phoneme: sure /ʆɔː/ shoulder /ˈʆəʊldə/ shot /ʆɒt/
/ʃ/ is produced with a much more rounded mouth than /s/, and is the sound we make when we want people to be quiet. If you use your voice with that mouth position, you get the starting sound in "sheet" and the ending sound in "push".
/ʧ/ is pronounced without your tongue moving and with more air released than with /t/. It is similar to the sound of a sneeze, and the air released should be able to move a piece of paper or be felt on your hand five centimetres in front of your mouth.