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Try LingUp Now!Start with the 'z' sound by vibrating your vocal cords and placing your tongue close to the roof of your mouth.
Move to the 'oʊ' diphthong by rounding your lips and gliding from an open-mid back rounded position to a high back position.
Finish with the 'n' sound by blocking air flow with your tongue against your upper teeth.
zon (dropping the final 'e')
zun (incorrect vowel sound)
zawn (mixing 'oʊ' with 'aʊ')
Start with the 'z' sound, ensuring your vocal cords vibrate and tongue is close to the roof of the mouth.
Produce the 'əʊ' sound by starting with a neutral vowel and gliding to a high-back position with rounded lips.
End with the 'n' sound by pressing your tongue against your upper teeth.
zun (incorrect vowel sound)
zawn (error in glide vowel transition)
zon (omission of glide vowel)
Yes, ensure your vocal cords vibrate.
It's a gliding vowel sound starting with a mid vowel and moving to a high-back position.
Because the vowel and glide are combined in one smooth transition.
An area or region with a specific purpose or restriction.
/zoʊn aʊt/
Stop paying attention.
/ˈzoʊnɪŋ/
The process of dividing land for specific purposes.
/ˈsʌbˌzoʊn/
A smaller area within a zone.
'zone out' includes an additional diphthong '/aʊ/'
'zoning' adds an 'ɪŋ' ending with stress on the first syllable
'subzone' starts with an additional syllable 'sʌb'
Ensure you smoothly transition between sounds in the diphthong without hesitation.
Practice with similar words like 'phone' to get comfortable with the sound.
