Diphthongs and Tripthongs.

      When I began studying this chapter I was able to identify what a diphthong is. It says that it is the combination of two vowels sounds. One is a strong vowel and another is weak vowel. As for example: the word eye /ai/ the first one tends to be longer or stronger while the second one is shorter. In total there are eight diphthongs and we have a way to remember them easily. We can divide them into three groups: Centring Diphthongs. They glide towards the ə (schwa) vowel.

Also we have the closing diphthong which has the characteristic that the all end with a glide towards a closer vowel. As for example some words glide towards /I/ and another glide towards /ʊ.Here you have a web page where you can find some chart that will help us to recognize the different diphthongs in English, also, you can download audio files that can allow you to pronounce in a better way: https://notendur.hi.is/peturk/KENNSLA/02/TOP/VowelsDiphth.html

Talking about the triphtongs it is said that they are the most complex sounds and difficult to recognize them because a “Tripthong is a glide from one vowel to another and to a third” as we can notice in this example: lower /ləʊə / in this case it can be a little difficult to recognize when a native speaker pronounce it rapidly.