American English Vowel Sounds: /ɪ/, IH as in SILVER

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The "i" is probably one of the harder vowels to pronounce; very nice short differentiation here: 1:50. The best part of these videos is the Ear Training Time, so I can hear the differences between a pair of words.

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1:53 Transitioning from the schwa to the /ɪ/ sound help me make a clearer /ɪ/ sound. Thanks.

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One of the trickiest sounds, no doubt! I never noticed the difference between "kiss" and "keys" and "live" and "leave" until someone told me they were different. Thank you Keenyn

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super awesome video! for the longest time I was trying to understand the difference between the short i sound and the schwa..this video answered my question..thank you!!

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I was struggling with the vowels sounds finally I understand it . Thank you so much.

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Please, make videos with other vowels too. That will help a lot cause other vowels are also slightly different from vowels in other languages.

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Actually, I'm in my upper-intermediate I didn't know the differences. thank you so much

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[@adairjoseartes3645]

One more awesome video about phonetics! I love it. This IH sound is a little tricky for us non-native speakers of English. I'd like to talk about this vowel sound a little. In my ears, I realiazed that this short vowel IH said by the natives changes into another vowel sound depending on the other sounds after it. For example, if the letters R, NG/NC/NK come after the IH, it changes into the long EE as in SEE. So HERE / THINK and SING sound HEER / THEENK and SEENG. On the other hand, if the IH is followed by M or N, it sounds like EH as in BED. So PIN / SINCE and SIMPLE sound PEN / SENTS and 'SEMPOOL. It's so crazy, isn't? Haha.

[@ClearEnglishCorner]

Thanks so much Adair José! So glad you enjoyed the lesson! 😊 Yes- it has always bothered me hoe "ing" in transcribed with /ɪŋ/ because to me it is quite apparent that it sounds like EENG /iŋ/. The IH stays IH for me in words like SINCE and SIMPLE, but it does sound like SENTS and SEMPL for some. Have you hear of the PIN/PEN merger? It's all the same here in Missouri! 😄

[@adairjoseartes3645]

@@ClearEnglishCorner Yes, l've already heard of that.

[@espiritulibre3569]

It was hard to distiguish between those sounds, GOD! Thank you very much Keenyn to help us to learn the difference.

[@mychudungco]

Dear Keenyn This is the lesson I have been wating for years. I now know how to pronounce the /i/ word correctly. For me, this lesson is the second most difficult after the word/dg/ in adjust and /j/ in july. I hope to practice the most difficult pronounciation words /to me/ in the next videos. I have been truggling with these words for years and I highly appreciate your efforts to to these videos from bottom of my hard. Loves

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Thanks for this. I'll practice as much I can.

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I love your lesson and your American accent!

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Thanks for this useful lesson! It was really clear and I understood the difference between the /i/ and the /I/. Regards.

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Thanks a lot for making video llike this. It's really useful for us foreigners to distinguish english sounds. I am looking foward to next video. I hope it comes soon!

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Thank you very much for another great lessson, Keenyn. In some 40 or 50 years I will pronounce better.

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I like this series. If you make this English phonology series with better sound quility, I will watch and practice it again. Actually, I need this series to improve pronunciation because Chat GPT is very STRICT English listener.

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We are happy to hear that you enjoy this series, we will continue to improve our processes and system

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I like this series...please cover all the vowel sounds if possible...

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Great lesson

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Without any doubt the more HELPFUL was the difference between He's & His

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Thank you so much for making this video. This was the hardest one to pronunciate and you helped me a lot :)

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That' s a great video here, Keenyn. I' d live to see IPA next to the words you were spelling for the last 4 minutes where you were giving examples. Thanks a lot!

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You can look up the words at Cambridge American English dictionary here: dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/american-english . They can be hard to type on a computer screen because we don't have those characters on the keyboard. Hope that helps!

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Thx a lot keenyn......we are super......super.....need all of these stuff... becoz this one super difficult for me as a english learner Please give more....maybe you can make special videos like this...but just the word and your sound how to pronounce all the words Good job theacher...4 tumb for you...

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Your are such a great teacher! can you please a video about the /ɪ/ and /ɛ/ ?? please they are really confusing, I hope you see my comment.

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[@nombre9251]

Grrr... I'm strugling yo get it. If I try it so much it becomes an /i/ (ee) but if I try it so little it becomes an /e/. Your tip of elevating the tounge a litle was VERY helpful! :D But I'm still having difficult with this kind of sentences: The sheep is in the ship "Shep". Or sentences like green grin "gren".

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More lessons to come with different vowel and consonant sounds! 😊

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Thank you Emma Smith! 😊 More to come fore sure!

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[@abbysands9510]

I just realized something, in certain words sometimes my tongue is not in position for "i" sound. It skips the "i" sound altogether and goes straight for the next consonant. I notice this happens in words where the consonant requires the tongue to be raised up to either touch the back of teeth or near the roof of the mouth such as the consonants "l", "t", "s", "c", "z", "d" and "n" and then followed by "i" sound. For example in the word "lit" the tongue raises up to make the "l" sound and then retracts a little and then goes straight to make the "t" sound. I say the word but I feel the word might be hollow because it is missing "i" sound. I didn't realize it until 1:54. For the other constants is not really a problem. This is because the tongue is already starting very low and all I have to do is to raise it a little such as in the word "bit". Does that ever happen to you? Thank you for a great video

[@ClearEnglishCorner]

That is such an awesome observation abby Sand! 😊 This does not happen to me, but that is only because this is my native language. If I was learning and refining the sound it would make perfect since that coarticulation of other sounds like you mentioned would impact my pronunciation.

[@abbysands9510]

@@ClearEnglishCorner Thanks Keenyn :)