Oh, I was forgetting about vowel length... You guys are right. I just didn't think about that because it seems to me that in some cases the distinction is not very noticeable, especially in diphthongs. I can definitely tell the difference between

Thank you everyone for the explanations. I have been struggling with this for a long time. I need some time to digest what you said. I know pre-fortis clipping applies to vowel but didn't know it also applies to diphthongs. Another pair of words

Hi Kooyeen, The vowels you describe are not the same, neither in General American nor British English RP. Because of pre-fortis clipping, the diphthong in "how's" is almost twice as long as that in "house".

The soft sound of the English consonant <g> is pronounced as /dz/ (The IPA symbol would have the 'z' as a yogh) as in your example ‘ima g e’. This is not considered a diphthong. A diphthong is a sequence of 2 perceptibly different VOWEL

Dear Tod, welcome to the forum! Yes, these are linked. But I'm not familiar with resources. Perhaps you will have better luck getting a reply if you do not post additional "could anyone give me an answer" messages. That way your original post

Dear all I am having some pronunciation problems. 1. When saying some words like "Image Shack", do we make any linking between the /dz/ (last diphthong of "Image") and /sh/ (first diphthong of "Shack"), or do we just pronounce the two words

Hi again, sorry, I meant to say that you should avoid considering songs as a major means of learning English. You don't learn good pronunciation by listening to songs. Often words are mispronounced (because they are sung). So you'll often hear

Hi, you sound like you want to imitate George Dubya, LOL Seriously, I'm going to comment on the first part, just on some features though: Belly wrote: Here is the script: The Beatles were an English group of musicians from Liverpool whose

Hello Feebs, The first syllable of Paulo (Pau.lo), is a diphthong similar to "foul", the second, though unstressed, is clearly pronounced as the poetical interjection "Lo!". Coelho, has thress syllables (Co.e.lho), all the vowels are distincly

Hi, I know that an "a" sound as in "cat" usually is pronunced differently before n's or m's. It becomes a kind of diphthong (/ɪə/, /eə/ or /ɛə/). Example: Damn ---> could be /deəm/ Now the question is: does this happen with "e" sounds like in