The left lift - /e/ and /ɪ/ in English
06/13/22 • 16 min
Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! This week we're revisiting two short vowels we've looked at before: /e/ and /ɪ/, and contrasting them with each other.
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Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! This week we're revisiting two short vowels we've looked at before: /e/ and /ɪ/, and contrasting them with each other.
Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.
The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon.
Don't forget to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
Interested in classes? You can learn with me on italki! If my schedule shows no availability, please contact me anyway - I try to make room for podcast listeners :-)
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Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re picking back up on the /ɪ/ and /e/ sounds from last week, and seeing how they behave in two schwa diphthongs: /ɪə/ and /eə/. We’ll look at the sounds individually, in common words, and in sentences.
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English Sound Building - British Pronunciation - The left lift - /e/ and /ɪ/ in English
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So, today we’re coming back to two short vowel sounds we’ve looked at before in contrast with other vowels. We looked at /e/ way back in episode 3, in contrast with /æ/, and we looked at /ɪ/ last season, in episode 25 “cheap as chips”, in contrast with the long vowel /i:/. Today we’ll be contrasting /e/ and /ɪ/ with each other, and I should stress that we’re talking about the contrast between them in a modern RP English-from-England accent: these vowels can sound quite different
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