SECTION I: DIPHTHONGS {Counter #.......}
[LANGUAGE NOTE: Diphthongs (also know as double vowels) are significantly different in American English than in almost any other language or dialect in the world. So it doesn't matter what language you come from, you must learn to produce these sounds with the "quick downward glide" and the rear tongue these sounds with they possess in standard American speech, Practice them here in lesson #2, and go back and review the earlier diphthong lesson in Course # 1, Lesson # 5. Practicing the pronunciations of diphthongs gives you the perfect opportunity to combine pronunciation with the rear-tongue speech impulse that you learned in lesson #1. }
L 2/ S1-A: THE "LONG I" Phonetic Symbol: [ a I ]
Here are more words and sentences for this diphthong which aren't recorded on the tape.
erudite | pylon | shiner | aisle | lice | high |
appetite | polite | while | Eliza | flie | icy |
skylight | crucify | sideline | fight | icon | eye |
baptize | identity | slicing | crime | idle | die |
concise | twilight | crisis | crime | Nile | dry |
advice | briny | dried | right | fire | side |
thrice | China | virus | night | rye | ride |
pyrite | myopic | spicy | light | shy | time |
pliers | pliable | style | bright | cry | life |
- It's the right time to find a gold mine in the sky.
- I transcribed five dialogues, but I don't know why.
- The sight of dry land was exciting for Ira.
- A life of violent crime is a sign of t he times.
- Eliza was the pride of the science fair.
- Fried pike is sliced for Friday night's supper.
- Ivy vines are tied down behind the shutters.
- My guide and I had a fine time on the Nile.
- Please recite ironic rhymes of an iambic kind.
- Blind justice presided at the indictment.
- Dried spice is likely to be appetizing.
Phonetic Symbol: [ a u ]
Now here are lots more words and sentences for this diphthong which are not recorded on the tape:
coward | carouse | crowd | mouse | count | down |
powder | confound | crown | douse | round | town |
pouch | flounder | cloud | louse | flower | out |
amount | abound | shroud | hound | proud | cow |
denounce | profound | trowel | mound | about | bow |
ounce | allowed | dowel | pound | bound | now |
pronoun | round | towel | around | foul | how |
mountain | brown | trounce | house | rout | wow |
south | shower | pounce | doubt | oust | lout |
- The loudest hound in town bow-wowed at the mouse.
- The lout proudly scowled at those in the household.
- The coward found a trowel and plowed into the mound.
- I doubt t hat the louse will pound down the flowers.
- The crowd loudly prowled the streets of the town.
- The cow was doused by a shower out of the cloud.
- I found that I had gained about a pound.
- He counted the hours and vowed to get out of the house.
- The sow, the mouse and the cow sounded a rousing song.
- Wild flowers abound in out-of-the-way mountains.
L 2/ S1-C: THE "AW-EE" Phonetic Symbol:
And here are still more words and sentences for this diphthong which aren't recorded on the tape.
foyer | despoil | moisture | ointment | ploy | Roy |
Joyce | Boise | cloister | oyster | poi | joy |
rejoice | buoyancy | hoist | choice | coin | Troy |
foible | broil | annoy | exploit | coy | boy |
recoil | asteroid | soy sauce | enjoy | coil | join |
goiter | appoint | soybean | royal | toil | soy |
poise | avoid | Lloyd | loyal | foil | oink |
vice | voyeur | pointed | noise | loin | oily |
devoid | anoint | doily | poignant | oil | soil |
- The boy joined in the noise.
- Loyal Lloyd anointed the royal head with oil.
- Boyle put soy sauce on the boiled oysters.
- He coiled around the moist cloister pillars.
- He toiled to hoist the soybeans from the soil.
- The boisterous boy oiled the noisy toy.
- He foiled the exploits of those who were loitering.
- Ointment is the best choice for your aching joints.
- Joyce's poignant remark annoyed Roy Foy.
- The noisy boy lost his voice while rejoicing.
- The royalty exploited their loyal subjects.
The following are sentences containing all of the diphthongs. Use the proper technique as you repeat them after they are modeled on the tape.
SECTION II: SINGLE VOWELS {Counter #.........}
L 2/ S2-贏: THE "UH" Phonetic Symbol: [ ?]
[LANGUAGE NOTE: As you already learned in Course # 1, Lesson #1, this vowel simply doesn't exist in most of the world's languages, Following the instructions on the tape for producing this sound regardless of what language you first spoke.]
And now more drills for this vowel which aren't recorded on the tape.
stubborn | exult | hunter | Ulster | rush | nun |
stucco | deluxe | trouble | cover | hush | hut |
struggle | discuss | wonder | alone | hull | cut |
study | brush | lunch | crush | come | bus |
stump | brunt | upper | chuck | bunk | us |
ruffle | budget | nothing | above | bump | some |
rummage | abduct | unused | slumber | club | of |
glutton | mumble | until | slush | dump | up |
- This stuntman stumbles and tumbles in the mud.
- A mother's love is above that of another
- Some suds from the supper dishes were in a dull puddle.
- The puppy covered up the other couple's lunch.
- The blood under the bud vase was trouble for Gus.
- The drunk number something into his cup.
- At an upper crust brunch one must wear gloves.
- The drunk mumbled something into his cup.
- The dumb puppet crust brunch one must wear gloves.
- Southern hunters used clubs and lived in huts.
- The glutton lunged for the crumbs of the crusty buns.
L 2/ S2-B: THE "SHORT A" Phonetic Symbol: [ ?]
[LANGUAGE NOTE: As you learned in Course # 1, this is another vowels which doesn't exist in most of the world's languages, Follow the instructions on the tape for producing this sound regardless of what language you first spoke. ]
Now more practice on this vowel with drills you will not hear on the tape:
after | passage | adding | rammed | man | Sam |
basket | baggage | halfway | anthill | ask | path |
castle | trap | passed | command | as | mass |
France | alcove | bashful | disaster | aft | rank |
answer | ample | accept | master | Pam | tank |
soprano | snack | lamps | absolute | wax | bank |
laugh | apples | anthem | ambulance | lad | Alps |
shatter | annual | handsome | frank | hand | bass |
glass | admiral | sandwich | fabric | bath | math |
- The soprano laughed as she shattered the glass.
- The passengers and baggage were trapped in the alcove.
- Pam made an ample snack of the wax apples.
- Lady Aster handed the annual to the wax apples.
- Ask any bashful man in Alabama and accept his answer.
- The huddled masses sang the National Anthem.
- Let's have a lamb and ham sandwich.
- Sam rammed the flag into the anthill.
- During the disaster the master commanded the castle.
- The staff had a rash of bad habits.
L 2/ S2-贑: "SHORT O" as "AH" Phonetic Symbol: [ a ]
LANGUAGE NOTE: Even though the AH-vowel does exist in almost all of the world's language, it is usually not spelled with the letter "o" So, everyone, regardless of first language group, should practice not rounding this Short-O. ]
Now practice this vowel on these extra drills which aren't recorded on the tape
rock | response | lock | jalopy |
opera | honor | golf | jonquil |
obstinate | oxygen | locksmith | common |
odd | opposite | confidence | almond |
on | obvious | obelisk | fox |
bog | occupy | monogamy | plot |
knock | gondola | Adonis | |
stop | sock | plotted | positive |
option | obligate | grotto | constitute |
spa | aqua | calm | swamp |
Utah | balmy | father | want |
- He occupied the gondola of the golf cart.
- The rocket short toward the opposite air lock
- The obstinate opera singer was preoccupied.
- Becket was positive about the honor of God.
- Move the fox from the rocks to the bog.
- He was confident about giving an obstinate response.
- The frog got groggy and hopped away.
- Anonymous l letters commonly dishonor Adonis.
- Oxygen is commonly found in air pockets.
- The rock grotto was obviously on final option.
- I'm obligated to respond with fondest acknowledgments.