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
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.
here're some sentences I liked and expressing about my feelings towards you my dear I really missed you, and I'm interesting in your lessons . thank you keenyn.
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!!
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
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.
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.
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! 😄
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".
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!
Thank you very much for sharing this video with us I appreciate your time for teaching us English for free Keenyn god bless you pardon my grammar greetings from north east
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...
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!
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!
Keenyn, these pronunciation videos are great, really, most of us who speak Spanish, we commonly have those pronunciation errors that you mention, I would really like a sound comparison ear training between the schwa sound vs. the "I" like silver. I am very grateful for your videos, I appreciate you very much from Venezuela.
*My request is for you to create videos on how to pronounce vowel and consonants in America accent with at least three sample words as well as use them in sentences And really appreciated for your kind help*
