BRITISH ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION (RP accent) - /ɪə/ vowel sound (here, career and clear)

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Today, we're going to talk about another diphthong

And this diphthong is /ɪə/

So if you don't remember from last class, a diphthong is

a combination of two vowel sounds in the same syllable

So you've got the /ɪ/

and the /ə/

/ɪə/

Now British people, especially in the slightly posher accents

Will sometimes say (soft) /ɪə/ instead of (strong) /ɪə/

So we will soften out the diphthong a little bit

So, let's talk about some words that are well-known

Firstly, we've got words with e and a

So we've got appear, hear, near, clear, fear

Ok, I am speaking in a strong British accent

So I'm using a lot of air, it's very breathy

Then I have words with ee

beer, career, volunteer

Then, I've got words with e r e

like atmosphere or severe

Sometimes, just the e alone is pronounced as /ɪə/

So period, or interior

But this is really posh

Even I don't say that, so I'd go period, interior

(soft) /ɪə/ rather than (hard) /ɪə/

And then we've got the ei such as weird, weird

Then we've got eo in things such as theory

We've also got ie such as fierce, cashier

Ok well I hope you enjoyed and learnt something from this lesson on the /ɪə/ sound

Umm....make sure you try and apply it when using all the words that you learnt today

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This is a pronunciation video and looking up the words in a dictionary is fairly simple

so, I recommend you do that

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