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They are diphthongs I think you should forget trying to disambiguate the components and learn the diphthong as a unit it is after all a mobile phenomenon always changing and each dialect has its own slight variations

Hi I m having trouble with diphthongs especially those in words like nice and down Diphthongs consists of two vowels so we will consider the first diphthong as ai nice nais and the second as au down daun Let s consider ai as in nice like and I which sound is i in that diphthong I ve always...

If English speakers learnt how to pronounce the Latin expression per se they wouldn t want to transcribe it as per say The e of se is not a diphthong In no English word is a solitary e pronounced as a diphthong so why imagine it is so in other languages Try removing the t from set

I learned it as trisyllabic laxing where a diphthong becomes a monophthong in a three or more syllable word It s a morphological issue http en wikipedia org wiki Trisyllabic_laxing

Ok I m from Germany und I m not really being proud to be a German I think Germans aren t better than other people but they aren t worse either And I have no reasons to be proud Why should I be proud to be German Well but I have to say that I like the German language it would be very interesting...

Well well my friend I just checked You are right In the transcriptions that I have found and could remember they transcribe for example Tzigane as tsij gan which means that the standard English transcription system have no special sign for tz in Tzigane and other words which I have mentioned...

British English has around 44 sounds 24 Consonants 7 short vowels 5 long vowels 8 diphthongs I wonder how many sounds are there in Standard i e ignoring any regional variation French German Spanish Hindi amp Chinese Lastly which language in the world has the least amp most sounds in it

Some texts speak very loosely when they say there are five vowels They mean to say that there are five vowel letters a e i o u Actually y and w are also used as vowel letters That is these seven letters and combinations of them are used to represent vowels A vowel is something you hear not...

Thank you So it should be pronounced pjuki or pjukei the last syllable is a monophthong or diphthong See you Hela