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Diphthongs – Exercises

1) Are the highlighted sections of the following words pronounced with a diphthong or not?
Check the correct box.

Diphthong? Diphthong?

- Canción ……… . Yes No - Pelea ………… Yes No

- Poesía ………… Yes No - Lingüística …… Yes No

- Mueblería …… Yes No - Creación ……… Yes No

- Seriedad ……… Yes No - Terapia ……… Yes No

- Geografía …… Yes No - Paletería ……… Yes No

- Throughout …… Yes No - Psychologist …… Yes No

- Education …… Yes No - Pleasure ……… Yes No

- Australian …… Yes No - Meaning ……… Yes No

- Emotional …… Yes No - Migration ……… Yes No

- Changing ……… Yes No - Should ………… Yes No

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2) Which “diphthong” do native speakers of English pronounce for each of the following words?
Place each word in the correct column below:

wet - pray - with - mine - go - face - wig - weird

no - tie - mail - when - twit - sight - suite - try
load - pale - where - ride - most - quick - weather
we - dwell - so - will - wheel - gain - wheat

/ aj / / Ɛj / / əw / / wƐ / / wi / / wI /