The first diphthong sound we are going to learn is the /eɪ/ sound. A diphthong sound is two single vowel sounds joined together to make one sound.

To make the /eɪ/ sound, you start with the single /e/ sound and the single /ɪ/ sound. You move from the /e/ sound to the / ɪ / sound ‒ your voice glides from the first (1st) to the second (2nd) sound. You say and hold the first sound /e/ and then say the second sound /ɪ/ quickly, as a short sound.

When you say the /eɪ/ sound, you want to say about 60% of the /e/ sound and about 40% of the /ɪ/ sound. You need to make sure that you do arrive at (say) the second sound, /ɪ/.

So, what we do when we make this sound is, we take the /e/ sound and put it together with the /ɪ/ and end up saying a new sound, /eɪ/.

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