These videos are gold for me. Thanks for original content. Especially I find useful additional information at the end of the videos. Telling through pictures and animation works perfectly on me.
Hello, American English. Your videos about vowels is helping me to enhance my pronunciation. I was so sonfused at first. But practicing one hour a day I sure that I will discriminate every sound of each word. Thank you for tour videos. I always watch them.
Thank you so much for your helpful English pronunciation lessons, and this video is also very clear and helpful. You're so kind when I listen to your voice, and I can speak English almost fluently with some pronunciation mistakes but that's completely normal I think, but I always enjoy learning this beautiful language. ❤😊
Hi, there. Let me tell you that you are the best American pronunciation teacher I have ever seen. I wish you all the best. I hope that your channel will reach 8 billion subscribers. You are really creative.
When my French students are interested in phonetics, these make my job so much easier. I just wish they would all be interested in it because most of them really need it! haha thank you
+Erpan Imam, thank you! We do try not to make it too scientific, but provide useful information as well. Let us know if you have any questions on this or other videos!
Greetings friends, I really like your channel and good content to learn more about vowels in English. But how do I know when I can use them in what words? I know there are around 16 vowels in English. Thank you for its content, it has helped me a lot to interpret sounds in English more. good job sounds American.
Hi! Thanks a lot for your videos! They are amazing! If you have some time and effort to spare, could you please add Korean subtitle too? I am teaching English in Korea and most of Koreans learn English in American accent so they would love your videos! I would like to recommend your videos for my students but they would have some difficulty understanding without the subtitle. Anyway, with or without the subtitle, these are such a precious teaching resource! Thank a lot again.
+김지영 Hello there! Glad to hear you like our videos and they are helpful to you! We like having teachers in our community and plan to make more videos to help you with teaching. About Korean subtitles: adding subtitles in a new language is actually a big project and we take it very seriously. It's important that our subtitles are translated with good quality. Usually it takes approximately 60 - 80 hours to translate subtitles for all our videos. We usually work with our translators (typically they volunteer to work on this project) on a "trade" basis - we provide 1x1 pronunciation classes in exchange for translation. We would love to add Korean subtitles to our videos and attract more Korean subscribers to our community, so if you know of anyone who would be interested to do it, let us know :). Stay in touch!
this video is not about long/short vowel sounds. What you said is conflict with the video. Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=SoundsAmerican
Yes, the /t/ sound is pronounced at the end of those words, it's just it's pronounced without a puff of air, that's why you don't hear it. The /t/ sound is pronounced without a puff of air in this position due to the Final Stop rule. We talk about this in this video: ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html
Thanks to you, now I can perfectly understand the difference in pronunciation between /i/ and /ɪ/. The problem for me is that I do not know when to use the /i/ and when to use the other sound /ɪ/ in words because until now I didn’t know about the difference between those two different sounds. The confusion for me is even bigger since both sounds can be represented by the same letters in many words: e, i, y. E.g.: be - English (“e” in be is pronounced as /i/, while “E” in English is pronounced as /ɪ/). Other example: ski - big (same letter “i” pronounced differently). Do you have any advice for me?
You've probably just asked us to open a pandora box 😊. In any case, make sure you're sitting down and ready for a long read. Okay, let's start with the tense /i/ sound. It can be represented by a number of single letters and combinations of letters. Skipping exceptions, here are some major rules and patterns. Most often, the tense /i/ sound is represented by the letter 'E': • in open stressed syllables and in closed stressed syllables, followed by the silent 'E' letter: "be," "theme." • in unstressed syllables before vowels at the beginning of other syllables: "react," "area." • at the beginning of '-eous' suffixes after the 'd,' 'n,' or 't' letters: "hideous," "spontaneous," Combinations of letters with 'E': • 'EA,' 'EE,' 'EI,' 'EO,' 'EY': "sea," "meat," "coffee," "ceiling,' 'people,' 'key.' The /i/ sound is also represented by the letter 'i,' when it occurs in the following positions: • at the beginning of '-ia*', '-ie*' 'io,' and ''iou' suffixes: "material, " "experience, " "champion, " "serious" • At the end of some words, the letter 'i' is pronounced as the tense /i/ in the combination of letters 'ie.' Note that this isn't a typical pronunciation of this letter in an unstressed syllable. The tense /i/ is also represented by the letter 'Y': in unstressed syllables at the end of words and at the end of the first word in compound words: "very," "city, "anybody." Now, the relaxed / ɪ / sound: It's represented by the following letters and combinations of letters: • letters 'i' or 'Y' in closed stressed syllables: "bit," "gym." • By the letters 'E' or 'i' in unstressed syllables. In this position, these letters can be pronounced as the relaxed /ɪ/ or the /ə/ sound: "before," "toilet," "public," "music." These two vowels can be used interchangeably in some words, but not in all of them. • Letter 'E' in '-es' and '-ed' endings: "pointed," "waited," "pleases," "faxes." Letter 'A' and the 'AI' combination: • In unstressed syllables, the combination of letters 'ai' is sometimes pronounced as /ɪ/: "portrait." • The letter 'a' is typically pronounced as /ɪ/ when it's part of the '-age' suffix: "image." As mentioned before, these are just the most common rules and the exceptions are not covered here. But it's already a lot, and we hope it helps! BTW, we cover a lot of this stuff in our post on the community page here on UA-cam, check it out when you have time!
@@SoundsAmerican , thank you very much! You are doing a great job here on UA-cam. I just found your channel less than 2 months ago and my pronunciation already improved significantly in this period. Happy New Year!
I used to have a hard time differenciating the sounds of the words feel and few. To my ears they sounded the same. I always thought they were homophones. But then everything changed after I learned the IPA symbols of American English sounds. Now I notice that feel /fi:l/ and few /fju:/ don't sound the same. This Channel is awesome, by the way. Good Job!
Have a look at these two charts: soundsamerican.net/article/vowel_sound_tense_i_as_in_be#most_common_spelling_for_the_tense_i_sound and soundsamerican.net/article/vowel_sound_lax_i_as_in_it#most_common_spelling_for_the_lax_i_sound
"its" is a possessive form of the pronoun "it". "it's" is a contraction of the words "it" and "is" (or "it" and "has"). From a pronunciation perspective, they are pronounced exactly the same way.
I have to say that's was an amazing video and taught me a lot, for now, I wanna get better at pronouncing the words, which video at first I have start with it? I wanna start with R-colored vowels is that okay? Thank you so much, sir, I appreciate if you tell me.
We're very glad to hear this! You're asking a great question! If you already feel confident about your pronunciation of single vowel sounds and diphthongs, it's totally fine to start working on R-Colored vowels, because to master them, you need to know how to pronounce single vowels and diphthongs. American English vowel sounds are tricky and we usually recommend starting your pronunciation journey with them. Let us know what you think!
@@SoundsAmericangot it, now i wanna working on single vowel and diphthongs when i realize i'm good at prounounce these then i'll start with R-Colored vowels, thank you and i appreciate it sir,
You're very welcome, let us know if you have any questions! By the way, we also have a website with tons of information on American pronunciation and practice exercises. Check it out: soundsamerican.net/
Since l practice by the videos ! In short time! I make progress so much ! Now I am very good at American accent! I don't know how to thanks the people who make theses videos !
In a way... Once you know IPA, you know the phonetic system of the [American] English language. Then you'll need to learn some basic phonics rules. And knowing the phonics rules will help you to avoid _some_ spelling mistakes. In fact, this is exactly how English-speaking kids learn to spell! (Although they skip the IPA part because by the time they start learning to spell, they already have all the phonetic inventory)
Can you add the Arabic translation of the videos? It is the channel to teach pronunciation. I was amazed by it. I love learning the correct pronunciation method. The explanation was very cool, but amazing with all the details.
The "ea [i]" sound is a real short vowels. But the "-i-, i- [ɪ / ı]" sound is a semi-vowel sound between the "ih [i· / i]" sound and the "eh [e· / e]" sound.
+Yᴜᴍᴇʀɪᴛsᴜ Bᴏɴᴢᴀɪ , We believe, that when you're learning pronunciation, what matters is whether a vowel sound tense or relaxed. You have to tense your lips and your tongue for a tense sound but make them relaxed for a relaxed one. If you do it wrong, it will affect your pronunciation. The /i/ is a tense vowel sound, as well as the /eɪ/ that you mentioned above, but the /ɪ/ is relaxed. The thing is that the length of a vowel depends on a consonant that follows it. The rule is that a vowel is longer before a voiced consonant and shorter before a voiceless one. So, the /i/ sound in the word "seed" will be longer than the /i/ sound in the word "seat." It's also important not to confuse the letters and the sounds. In English, a vowel sound can be represented by different letters or combinations of letters. The /i/ can be written by the letter 'y,' as in the word "city,' by the letter 'e' as in the word "be,' by the letter 'i' as in the word "ski,' and by combinations of letters, such as "ea," "ee," or "ie." You can find more on this is here: ua-cam.com/video/PIu5WDIco0I/v-deo.html Yes, you are right about the "placement" of the / ɪ/ sound. Your tongue has to raise very high in your mouth for the /i/ sound, a little less high for the / ɪ/ and even lower for the /e ɪ/. We have a video on this too, check it out, if you're interested: ua-cam.com/video/7EdRAfOMfnU/v-deo.html It's interactive, so you can play with it by clicking the images of the phonemes and comparing their tongue positions.
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
Bro I've a question. How can I understand that which sound will be used where? where will I use short I and where will I use long i?? Is there any techniques?
Good question! First of all, there's no long or short i sounds in American English. Any vowel sound can be long or short depending on the following consonant (please, check out this video where we cover this topic in detail: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html) You're talking about the relaxed /ɪ/ and the tense /i/ sounds. There are no techniques that you can learn, just the rules for how letters match the sounds. Since it's English, you'll have to memorize a lot of exceptions too. In these two videos we've listed the most common spellings for these sounds: ►the tense /i/: ua-cam.com/video/PIu5WDIco0I/v-deo.html ►the relaxed /ɪ/: ua-cam.com/video/Ok_HG-0lNCA/v-deo.html Let us know if it helps! By the way, we talk a lot about such rules for all sounds on our Community page here, check it out if you're interested.
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
What is the application you use for making videos? I mean an application which pronounces phonemes and records the user's pronunciation. In the video, you can see that this android app.
+Иван Лисин This is our own app which is not released to the public yet. We're working hard to make it happen soon and will announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
There's no such thing as the short or the long vowel /i/ as any vowel can be short or long depending on the following consonant. We talk about it in detail in this video: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html
+Wenyau Keng , thank you, glad you liked it! We're constantly adding new word pairs and they will be available in our app which we're going to release soon. It'll be the most convenient option to get them and the best option to practice. 👋
🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓 Check it out: soundsamerican.net/
I finally found a video that clearly illustrates the difference between the two vowels. I was confused about how to distinguish them before. Thanks.
You're very welcome!
These videos are gold for me. Thanks for original content. Especially I find useful additional information at the end of the videos. Telling through pictures and animation works perfectly on me.
+The fork in a Brain Thank you for your feedback, glad you liked our videos! Stay tuned for the new ones!
Hello, American English. Your videos about vowels is helping me to enhance my pronunciation. I was so sonfused at first. But practicing one hour a day I sure that I will discriminate every sound of each word. Thank you for tour videos. I always watch them.
Hello there, Geraldine! Wow! One hour a day, that's impressive! Keep up the good work and stay tuned for more videos :).
Thank you so much for your helpful English pronunciation lessons, and this video is also very clear and helpful. You're so kind when I listen to your voice, and I can speak English almost fluently with some pronunciation mistakes but that's completely normal I think, but I always enjoy learning this beautiful language. ❤😊
Really thankful for this channel, now I can differentiate these two vowels sound better.
I have used this video with so many of my students. Absolutely fantastic resource.
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Let me tell you that you are the best American pronunciation teacher I have ever seen. I wish you all the best. I hope that your channel will reach 8 billion subscribers. You are really creative.
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When my French students are interested in phonetics, these make my job so much easier. I just wish they would all be interested in it because most of them really need it! haha thank you
We love having teachers in our community! Say "hi" to your students 😉 Did you know that we also have a website? soundsamerican.net/
extremely helpful, I had been bothered by 【i】 and 【I】for 20 years 😂😂😂
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It takes time to make good stuff :).
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We will, stay tuned! BTW, we also have a website with tons of info on pronunciation and exercises: soundsamerican.net/
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it so scientific! So helpful to foreigners like me during so many I was confused so much until I have found this video! Thanks again!
+Erpan Imam, thank you! We do try not to make it too scientific, but provide useful information as well. Let us know if you have any questions on this or other videos!
well , to tell the truth . this channel is so awesome. The contrasting sounds part helps me a lot , thank you.
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Amazing video. You're channel is so useful for those who study by ourselves. I love your videos
Glad to hear you like it! 😀👋
Greetings friends, I really like your channel and good content to learn more about vowels in English. But how do I know when I can use them in what words? I know there are around 16 vowels in English. Thank you for its content, it has helped me a lot to interpret sounds in English more. good job sounds American.
Hi! Thanks a lot for your videos! They are amazing! If you have some time and effort to spare, could you please add Korean subtitle too? I am teaching English in Korea and most of Koreans learn English in American accent so they would love your videos! I would like to recommend your videos for my students but they would have some difficulty understanding without the subtitle. Anyway, with or without the subtitle, these are such a precious teaching resource! Thank a lot again.
+김지영 Hello there! Glad to hear you like our videos and they are helpful to you! We like having teachers in our community and plan to make more videos to help you with teaching.
About Korean subtitles: adding subtitles in a new language is actually a big project and we take it very seriously. It's important that our subtitles are translated with good quality. Usually it takes approximately 60 - 80 hours to translate subtitles for all our videos. We usually work with our translators (typically they volunteer to work on this project) on a "trade" basis - we provide 1x1 pronunciation classes in exchange for translation.
We would love to add Korean subtitles to our videos and attract more Korean subscribers to our community, so if you know of anyone who would be interested to do it, let us know :).
Stay in touch!
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My hardest fight is "Feel "vs "fill".
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There is a hidden h in feel
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Better late than never! -)
For a Portuguese speaker like me, the /ɪ / sounds like our ê = closed, non-nasal e.
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Gracias Sounds American. No tendrán por allí con ts y sh, por ejemplo para chin, chess o shape, gracias. Estoy que practico.
The video is very helpful! Thanks! Now I find out that /i/ for long vowel sound ( tea /tiː/ and / ɪ / for short vowel sound (been /bɪn/). 😍
this video is not about long/short vowel sounds. What you said is conflict with the video. Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=SoundsAmerican
Awesome videos. thank you so much. They are really helping me.
+APPA Glad to hear that! You're welcome!👋
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I can not hear /t/ sound in "eat" and "feet" clearly . Confuse me . There are not pronounced at the end of the word ? 4:59 5:35
Yes, the /t/ sound is pronounced at the end of those words, it's just it's pronounced without a puff of air, that's why you don't hear it. The /t/ sound is pronounced without a puff of air in this position due to the Final Stop rule. We talk about this in this video: ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html
@@SoundsAmerican Thank you so much.
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Wow! That's what I secretly wanted for long :-) thank you!
We have a lot of such stuff here :) Enjoy! 🖖
This channel is amazing! Thanks bro...
Glad you liked it!
Thanks to you, now I can perfectly understand the difference in pronunciation between /i/ and /ɪ/. The problem for me is that I do not know when to use the /i/ and when to use the other sound /ɪ/ in words because until now I didn’t know about the difference between those two different sounds. The confusion for me is even bigger since both sounds can be represented by the same letters in many words: e, i, y. E.g.: be - English (“e” in be is pronounced as /i/, while “E” in English is pronounced as /ɪ/). Other example: ski - big (same letter “i” pronounced differently).
Do you have any advice for me?
You've probably just asked us to open a pandora box 😊. In any case, make sure you're sitting down and ready for a long read.
Okay, let's start with the tense /i/ sound.
It can be represented by a number of single letters and combinations of letters.
Skipping exceptions, here are some major rules and patterns.
Most often, the tense /i/ sound is represented by the letter 'E':
• in open stressed syllables and in closed stressed syllables, followed by the silent 'E' letter: "be," "theme."
• in unstressed syllables before vowels at the beginning of other syllables: "react," "area."
• at the beginning of '-eous' suffixes after the 'd,' 'n,' or 't' letters: "hideous," "spontaneous,"
Combinations of letters with 'E':
• 'EA,' 'EE,' 'EI,' 'EO,' 'EY': "sea," "meat," "coffee," "ceiling,' 'people,' 'key.'
The /i/ sound is also represented by the letter 'i,' when it occurs in the following positions:
• at the beginning of '-ia*', '-ie*' 'io,' and ''iou' suffixes: "material, " "experience, " "champion, " "serious"
• At the end of some words, the letter 'i' is pronounced as the tense /i/ in the combination of letters 'ie.' Note that this isn't a typical pronunciation of this letter in an unstressed syllable.
The tense /i/ is also represented by the letter 'Y':
in unstressed syllables at the end of words and at the end of the first word in compound words: "very," "city, "anybody."
Now, the relaxed / ɪ / sound:
It's represented by the following letters and combinations of letters:
• letters 'i' or 'Y' in closed stressed syllables: "bit," "gym."
• By the letters 'E' or 'i' in unstressed syllables. In this position, these letters can be pronounced as the relaxed /ɪ/ or the /ə/ sound: "before," "toilet," "public," "music." These two vowels can be used interchangeably in some words, but not in all of them.
• Letter 'E' in '-es' and '-ed' endings: "pointed," "waited," "pleases," "faxes."
Letter 'A' and the 'AI' combination:
• In unstressed syllables, the combination of letters 'ai' is sometimes pronounced as /ɪ/: "portrait."
• The letter 'a' is typically pronounced as /ɪ/ when it's part of the '-age' suffix: "image."
As mentioned before, these are just the most common rules and the exceptions are not covered here. But it's already a lot, and we hope it helps!
BTW, we cover a lot of this stuff in our post on the community page here on UA-cam, check it out when you have time!
@@SoundsAmerican , thank you very much! You are doing a great job here on UA-cam. I just found your channel less than 2 months ago and my pronunciation already improved significantly in this period. Happy New Year!
very useful and informative...
I used to have a hard time differenciating the sounds of the words feel and few. To my ears they sounded the same. I always thought they were homophones. But then everything changed after I learned the IPA symbols of American English sounds.
Now I notice that feel /fi:l/ and few /fju:/ don't sound the same.
This Channel is awesome, by the way. Good Job!
Glad this was helpful!
Is there any rule/signal to know a word is /i/ or /ɪ/ without look up pronunciation?
Have a look at these two charts:
soundsamerican.net/article/vowel_sound_tense_i_as_in_be#most_common_spelling_for_the_tense_i_sound
and
soundsamerican.net/article/vowel_sound_lax_i_as_in_it#most_common_spelling_for_the_lax_i_sound
hello teacher, thanks the video. please explain what is the difference between its and it's
"its" is a possessive form of the pronoun "it". "it's" is a contraction of the words "it" and "is" (or "it" and "has"). From a pronunciation perspective, they are pronounced exactly the same way.
I would like to have access to this course. I need to make that excersises. How can I get it?
Do you have the link for the pronunciation test?
Thank you a lot
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I have to say that's was an amazing video and taught me a lot, for now, I wanna get better at pronouncing the words, which video at first I have start with it? I wanna start with R-colored vowels is that okay? Thank you so much, sir, I appreciate if you tell me.
We're very glad to hear this!
You're asking a great question! If you already feel confident about your pronunciation of single vowel sounds and diphthongs, it's totally fine to start working on R-Colored vowels, because to master them, you need to know how to pronounce single vowels and diphthongs. American English vowel sounds are tricky and we usually recommend starting your pronunciation journey with them. Let us know what you think!
@@SoundsAmericangot it, now i wanna working on single vowel and diphthongs when i realize i'm good at prounounce these then i'll start with R-Colored vowels, thank you and i appreciate it sir,
You're very welcome, let us know if you have any questions!
By the way, we also have a website with tons of information on American pronunciation and practice exercises. Check it out: soundsamerican.net/
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Since l practice by the videos ! In short time! I make progress so much ! Now I am very good at American accent! I don't know how to thanks the people who make theses videos !
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Thanks for russian subtitles
Is mastering IPA help me alot in spelling?
In a way... Once you know IPA, you know the phonetic system of the [American] English language. Then you'll need to learn some basic phonics rules. And knowing the phonics rules will help you to avoid _some_ spelling mistakes. In fact, this is exactly how English-speaking kids learn to spell! (Although they skip the IPA part because by the time they start learning to spell, they already have all the phonetic inventory)
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+Márcio Hachmann , thank you! Glad to hear that!👋
I know the difference btw two, when fast talking, I think these two are similar, it doest confuse, as the context is there.
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Can you add the Arabic translation of the videos? It is the channel to teach pronunciation. I was amazed by it. I love learning the correct pronunciation method. The explanation was very cool, but amazing with all the details.
Same.
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I see many dictionaries write IPA for /i/ is /i:/. Ex: me -> /mi:/. And write IPA for /I/ simply is /i/ @@
Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html
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Hello, I'm check to see if Sound American have finish make app yet?
We haven't released our app yet, stay tuned!
Thanks! So helpful.
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Ok you said beat and bit but I think the t sound at the end of the word is not pronounced,is that right ?
It's pronounced but without a puff of air.
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The "ea [i]" sound is a real short vowels.
But the "-i-, i- [ɪ / ı]" sound is a semi-vowel sound between the "ih [i· / i]" sound and the "eh [e· / e]" sound.
+Yᴜᴍᴇʀɪᴛsᴜ Bᴏɴᴢᴀɪ ,
We believe, that when you're learning pronunciation, what matters is whether a vowel sound tense or relaxed.
You have to tense your lips and your tongue for a tense sound but make them relaxed for a relaxed one. If you do it wrong, it will affect your pronunciation.
The /i/ is a tense vowel sound, as well as the /eɪ/ that you mentioned above, but the /ɪ/ is relaxed.
The thing is that the length of a vowel depends on a consonant that follows it. The rule is that a vowel is longer before a voiced consonant and shorter before a voiceless one. So, the /i/ sound
in the word "seed" will be longer than the /i/ sound in the word "seat."
It's also important not to confuse the letters and the sounds. In English, a vowel sound can be represented by different letters or combinations of letters.
The /i/ can be written by the letter 'y,' as in the word "city,' by the letter 'e' as in the word "be,' by the letter 'i' as in the word "ski,' and by combinations of letters, such as
"ea," "ee," or "ie." You can find more on this is here: ua-cam.com/video/PIu5WDIco0I/v-deo.html
Yes, you are right about the "placement" of the / ɪ/ sound. Your tongue has to raise very high in your mouth for the /i/ sound, a little less high for the / ɪ/ and even lower
for the /e ɪ/. We have a video on this too, check it out, if you're interested: ua-cam.com/video/7EdRAfOMfnU/v-deo.html
It's interactive, so you can play with it by clicking the images of the phonemes and comparing their tongue positions.
very thank you, may i ask you a question? what is app you use in the videos ?
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
Hi guys!
For any reasson I think you had a webpage with the same content ;)
Am i right?
Thank you very much for sharing these awsome videos!!!
Hello there! Nope, we didn't. Or it wasn't ours. :)
@@SoundsAmerican
Thanks a lot for your quick response.
You ROCK!!
Hmm, i also have seen a transcraption with the sign /l:/. Omg, just now i saw that these signs have different - a dot above!
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Thanks for the video, so illustrative
Can you tell me please why when we have r in th word the symbol changes
Ex in appear we should use i but you use the symbol I?
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NP!
Bro I've a question. How can I understand that which sound will be used where?
where will I use short I and where will I use long i??
Is there any techniques?
Good question! First of all, there's no long or short i sounds in American English. Any vowel sound can be long or short depending on the following consonant (please, check out this video where we cover this topic in detail: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html)
You're talking about the relaxed /ɪ/ and the tense /i/ sounds.
There are no techniques that you can learn, just the rules for how letters match the sounds. Since it's English, you'll have to memorize a lot of exceptions too.
In these two videos we've listed the most common spellings for these sounds:
►the tense /i/: ua-cam.com/video/PIu5WDIco0I/v-deo.html
►the relaxed /ɪ/: ua-cam.com/video/Ok_HG-0lNCA/v-deo.html
Let us know if it helps!
By the way, we talk a lot about such rules for all sounds on our Community page here, check it out if you're interested.
Hello! What pronunciation program do you use?
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
@@SoundsAmerican thank you very much for the answer! :)
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What is the application you use for making videos? I mean an application which pronounces phonemes and records the user's pronunciation. In the video, you can see that this android app.
+Иван Лисин This is our own app which is not released to the public yet. We're working hard to make it happen soon and will announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
@@SoundsAmerican Ok, good luck. Waiting for release. Will app implement for iOS?
+Иван Лисин Thank you! Yes, but the Android version will be first.
Nice sharing💜
Thank you! 🤗
Thanks
+Omar Ezzat , you're welcome!
This is sooooo great!
+Leandro Butteri , Glad you liked it! 😀
Some English teachers in my country teach us "/i/ is long but /I/ is short. That's the difference.". Is this correct?
There's no such thing as the short or the long vowel /i/ as any vowel can be short or long depending on the following consonant. We talk about it in detail in this video: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html
wow...........very useful thank you
Glad to hear this! 😀👋
Your program is so great and so helpful. Is there any way I can find the list of all your word pairs?
+Wenyau Keng , thank you, glad you liked it! We're constantly adding new word pairs and they will be available in our app which we're going to release soon. It'll be the most convenient option to get them and the best option to practice. 👋
Sounds American have you released it ?