No, neither are diphthongs. I guess the two examples I chose can be pronounced as diphthongs.
“é” the “acute” accent is pronounced like day, fiancé / fiancée. English has a tendency to make those into diphthongs, especially if you’re speaking slowly. But if you’re speaking quickly and it’s between consonants like say “mandate” you don’t really hear the second vowel sound in that supposed diphthong. But, it’s just the /e/ vowel sound in IPA. In any case, it’s a sound that English speakers make and can hear.
“è” the “grave” accent is pronounced like pet, jet, etc. It’s /ɛ/ in IPA.
Two vowels written has very little to do with how something is pronounced in English:
Words with 2 adjacent vowels but no diphthong:
Food
Flood
Been
Head
Coat
Words with only 1 vowel but a diphthong
Crowd
Sky
Few
Cake (silent e, obviously)
If you say “day” in a very long way like in the beginning of the banana boat song you really think that it sounds like the “e” sound in “pet”? Do you really hear two different vowel sounds there? If so when does it transition to the second one?
No, neither are diphthongs. I guess the two examples I chose can be pronounced as diphthongs.
“é” the “acute” accent is pronounced like day, fiancé / fiancée. English has a tendency to make those into diphthongs, especially if you’re speaking slowly. But if you’re speaking quickly and it’s between consonants like say “mandate” you don’t really hear the second vowel sound in that supposed diphthong. But, it’s just the /e/ vowel sound in IPA. In any case, it’s a sound that English speakers make and can hear.
“è” the “grave” accent is pronounced like pet, jet, etc. It’s /ɛ/ in IPA.
You mean like British pronunciation i guess?
Nope.
Idk man im here in the midwest and day is always a dipthong (two vowels written after all) and if you do cut it off it’s the same e sound as pet/jet
Two vowels written has very little to do with how something is pronounced in English:
Words with 2 adjacent vowels but no diphthong:
Words with only 1 vowel but a diphthong
If you say “day” in a very long way like in the beginning of the banana boat song you really think that it sounds like the “e” sound in “pet”? Do you really hear two different vowel sounds there? If so when does it transition to the second one?
Yes, yes, when it becomes the ee/i sound
So… never?
So apparently you pronounce may like “meh” which is some kind of UK thing but not in north america
No, I pronounce may with a “Close-mid front unrounded vowel”, “meh” would be a “Open-mid front unrounded vowel”