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This website was created to help people improve their American English pronunciation. At the core is a series of videos explaining in detail how each sound is created, as well as a blog.
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Though I highly recommend learning via video :), sometimes a book is a nice resource to have. I especially like this one:
The 'ih' as in 'sit' Sound
How to make this sound:
Video Text:
The ih sound is very close to ee, but it's not quite as forward and the mouth is not quite as closed. Ih. And the part of my tongue that touches the roof of my mouth is acutally the back part of my tongue touching the back part of the roof of my mouth. Ih, ih. And as you can see, the jaw hangs just a little bit, and the lips come out just a little bit. If I didn't widen them here it would look like this: ih. Ih, ih, ih. Sample words: kit, fix. Sample sentence: The women missed the little cat.
International Phonetic Alphabet symbol: [
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To get more technical and see this sound's occurrence in other languages, see Wikipedia.
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