SHIP vs SHEEP? Long and Short 'i' Vowels

In this video you'll learn how to correctly pronounce the long and short i sounds in English, /ɪ/ and /iː/ (the answers to the quiz at the end of the video are further down this description). This video focuses on British English, so if you're interested in improving your pronunciation and British English listening skills then you can follow me on Instagram for daily videos to help you improve!

NOTE: Apologies for the misspelling of "ski" in this video.

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The answers are sit, beach, feet/feat, and bit.

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[EnglishToPass]

Fantastic video Emma! Some teachers tell their students to say 'seaside' instead of 'beach' to avoid this /ɪ/ and /iː/ problem, but I think it is important to work on the difference!

[attila]

As a Hungarian it's really easy to make a difference between /ɪ/ and /iː/ because we have i and í in our alphabet which are pronounced basically the same (as /ɪ/ and /iː/).

[zakironlineacademy]

Your expression very wonderful so I like your videos

[saifacademy]

A beautiful lady with beautiful teaching

[kesabchandragiri]

Thanks for your interesting presentation from kolkata, lndia

[youngjinlim]

Sit/ Beach / Feet / Bit Thank you Emma :)

[shafayethossen]

I LOVE your body language so much and expression as well.

[worldaffairs]

Hi.. Ma'am Emma... I'm studying phonetics and phonology..so I'm watching your videos to learn basics.... amazing and wonderful...provided me rather help to learn.. so I wanna say THANKS TO YOU.
Keep it up, , ,

[celiamoreno]

You are an extraordinary teacher!! Thanks! Love it!

[basicspokenenglish]

Wow amazing
I'm from Bangladesh

[longjamranjit]

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[ar.productions]

Mam,
Good way to teach by expression.
Everyone can easily learn by your way. Thanks mam

[holangngonamei]

Humourous n very effective.. u r born to teach. Thank u

[SN-LOICHUA]

Thanks teacher a lot. I am from Vietnam. It is very useful for my selfstudy!

[dsalvantemplajr]

This was a huge help, Ems. Many thanks ❤

[EnglishHindi]

Nice teacher i wanna learn British accent through You Love from India

[cristina-emiliacismaru]

A very very useful lesson as always! I like a lot that you say the wrong pronunciations of words as well because I think in this way we can understand better the sounds and this helps us to recognize and to distinguish them. I think you said sit-peach-feet-bit. Thank you very much! :)

[chipiflop]

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[EvanArg]

haha long time no see... I'm using this video with one of my students. So useful. Thank you!