Name: Learn to Pronounce the Long OY Sound /ɔɪ/ 🇺🇸 American English Pronunciation Challenge Master Class
Uploaded: 2025-09-29T17:53:08.000Z
Duration: 6 min 47 s
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Hi everyone, it's Jennifer from Tarle Speech.

Let's learn how to pronounce the long OY sound.

This is the American English Sounds Master Class Series every day this year.

I am posting a lesson on how to pronounce every consonant and every vowel sound in American English.

If you're interested in the consonant sounds, those have already been posted.

I have a playlist for every sound that I am focusing on, and you can check those out on my homepage, YouTube at Tarle Speech.

That brings to mind if you are listening to this as a podcast, feel free to join us over on YouTube if you want to read along to the presentation that I am presenting.

Okay, so let's get into the phonetic transcription, the spelling, what your mouth does, and then we will do some practice.

Here is the phonetic spelling for OY, OY, OY.

Okay, so my mouth is puckered, and then it is moving to more of a smile, OY.

So it's really not a true smile, but the idea here is my mouth is moving into that smiling shape.

My tongue is going to be flat in the mouth, and then it is going to move to flat and high.

So many of my students can pronounce sounds, but they really struggle with English spelling and reading the words.

So let's look at how this sound is spelled.

We can spell it with O-I like in oil, O-Y in boy, O-I-S in Illinois, yes, that S is silent, and A-W-Y, this is kind of an exception, but since it's such a common word, I included it in the word lawyer, lawyer, lawyer.

All right, so we are ready for some practice.

How this works is I'm going to read the words.

Then you'll repeat after me, and then I'm going to put up the word lists.

I will say them, and then I'll have you read those.

Again, if you are listening to this on a podcast, come on over to Tarle Speech at YouTube, and you can follow along with the presentation.

If you're curious and you don't know, oink is the sound that a pig makes in American English, so you can let me know in the comments what does the pig say in your native language.

I love to hear what animals say in each language.

Coin, void, pointing, exploit, disjointed, boy, decoy, employ, destroy, corduroy.

Coin, void, pointing, exploit, disjointed.

Joy, Roy, and Boyd enjoyed the oil painting exhibit.

Thank you so much, everyone, for being here.

I so appreciate each and every one of you.

Love all of your comments, all of your feedback, your likes, your shares, and just your company and your support over these last 20 years.

Please join me every day this year for a new lesson to celebrate 20 years in business.