Thank you for your replies. these days I'm trying to improve my pronunciation a little (I'm reading "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook, I also have the audio files) CalifJim wrote: As for the second component, it is often some

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