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  • In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to take a look at how this letter

  • is pronounced.

  • I often get emails from people asking questions like, 'Why is the CH in CHICAGO pronounced

  • differently than the CH in CHOICE?' SH vs. CH. And my answer is always, unfortunately,

  • the sounds of American English do not correspond one-to-one with the letters of the alphabet.

  • To know for sure how a word is pronounced, you need to either hear a native speaker say

  • the word, or look up the word in a dictionary that has the International Phonetic Alphabet

  • transcription.

  • Let's take a look at the letter I. In the word 'him', it is the IH vowel. Ih, ih, him.

  • In the word 'time', it is the AI diphthong. Ai, time. In the word 'police', it's the EE

  • vowel, ee, police. In the word 'timbre', it's the AA vowel. Aa, timbre. In the word 'senior',

  • it's the yy sound. Senior. In the word 'possible', it's the schwa, uh, uh, possible.

  • So when you see this letter in a word, you can't make assumptions about how it's pronounced.

  • Look it up in a dictionary, or have native speaker say the word to you.

  • That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.

  • Don't stop there. Have fun with my real-life English videos. Or get more comfortable with

  • the IPA in this play list. Learn about the online courses I offer, or check out my latest

  • video.

In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to take a look at how this letter

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如何發音字母I - 美式英語 (How to Pronounce the Letter I - American English)

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    Sam 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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