How an english speaker hears Spanish Dipthongs
I am a beginner in learning Spanish, and whenever I come across double vowels I get tongue tied. So, I watched a video on youtube about dipthongs and these are the sounds I heard: These ones are fairly short, with more of an emphasis on the second vowel: ia >> "ya" ie >> "yeah" (rhymes with "say") io >> "yo" ua >> "wah" ue >> "whey" (as in the liquid drained from cheese curds) uo >> "whoa" (rhymes with a "doe", the female deer variety) These ones take longer to say than the ones above. They also sound like a trombone slide, from one verb sound to the next: ai >> "I" (rhymes with "bye") ei >> "eh" (something Fonzie from Happy Days says) oi >> " 'oy" (something an Australian says in 80s films) au >> "ow" (rhymes with "wow") eu >> (no english equivalent. "EW", when faced with something gross, is the wrong initial vowel sound) ou >> "oh?" (really a pitch change) These ones, I heard just a substitute of common English words: iu >> "you" ui >> "we"