Hi guys. In this video, we're going to look at the /aɪ/ sound.
It's in words like "my" and "lie".
This is a diphthong, which means it's a combination of two vowel sounds produced within the one syllable.
This diphthong is a combination of the /a/ sound and the /ɪ/ sound, although some people stretch that out into the /iː/ sound.
This /a/ sound doesn't exist in Received Pronunciation by itself but don't worry too much about that.
Honestly, if you can make this sound (the /ɑː/), which we looked at in another video, it will be close enough, and lots of native speakers do that anyway.
So to produce this diphthong your mouth will be a bit open, to begin with /ɑː/, and then it will close a bit.
Your lips will also stretch out a little: /aɪ/ /aɪ/.
Say it after me: /aɪ/ /aɪ/.
And now here are some words with this sound: I, like, bright, sky.