In this American English pronunciation video, I've come all the way to the beach to teach

you how to say 'beach' vs. 'bitch' and 'sheet' vs. 'shit'.

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A lot of my fans ask me about these two word pairs, because, of course, one word in each

of these pairs is a bad word. In both cases, it's the word with the IH as in SIT vowel.

Both of these pairs are minimal pairs, which means there's only one thing that's different.

In these cases, it's the vowel sound. The 'good' word has the EE as in SHE vowel. And

the 'bad' word has the IH as in SIT vowel. I've already made a video comparing those

two sounds, so do take a look at it. But let's just talk about it one more time in the context

of these words.

Beach vs. bitch. The main issue here is the tongue position. And, that's influenced by

the jaw position. Most people have EE in their native language, ee, ee. Tongue tip is down,

and the front part of the tongue is lifting, very close to the roof of the mouth. Ee, ee.

So, the space between tongue and roof of mouth is very small. The way to make the IH vowel

is just to make that space between tongue and roof of mouth bigger. So, we may do that

by dropping our jaw more: ee, ih. Or, you might notice that some native speakers don't

need to drop their jaw, it looks the same from the outside. But the difference is happening

with the tongue position inside the mouth. So, the difference between EE and IH is IH

has more space between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. So, for 'beach', ee, ee,

my tongue is really high. For 'bitch', ih, ih, my tongue isn't as high. It's a little

more relaxed, and my jaw hangs a little bit more. Same with 'sheet', ee, ee, very high.

Shit, ih, ih, lower, more relaxed, and the jaw might be lower too.

Guys, I hope this helps. If there are two words you want to hear compared, please put

it in the comments below.

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

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在这个美式英语发音视频中， 我大老远来到海滩教

你如何说“beach”与“bitch”和“sheet” 与“shit”。

嘿朋友和粉丝！ 我们马上就会看到 那个视频。 但首先，

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:) 很多我的粉丝问我关于这两个词 对的问题，因为当然，这两个词对中的一个词

是坏词。 在这两种情况下， 它都是带有 IH 的单词，如 SIT 元音。

这两对都是最小对，这 意味着只有一件事不同。

在这些情况下，它是元音。 'good' 词在 SHE 元音中具有 EE。

并且“坏”词具有 SIT 元音中的 IH。 我已经制作了一个视频来比较这

两种声音，所以请看一下。 但是，让 我们在这些词的上下文中再谈一次

。

海滩与婊子。 这里的主要问题是 舌头的位置。 而且，这

受下颌位置的影响。 大多数人在他们的 母语中都有EE，ee，ee。 舌尖下垂

，舌前部上提， 非常靠近上颚。 诶，诶。

因此，舌头和上颚之间的空间 非常小。 发出IH元音的

方法就是让舌头和上颚之间的空间 更大。 所以，我们可以

通过更多地放下我们的下巴来做到这一点：ee，ih。 或者，您 可能会注意到一些以母语为母语的人

不需要下巴，从外面看起来是一样 的。 但不同之处在于

舌头在嘴里的位置。 因此，EE 和 IH 的区别在于 IH

在舌头和上颚之间的空间更大 。 所以，对于“海滩”，呃，呃，

我的舌头真的很高。 对于'婊子'，呃， 呃，我的舌头没有那么高。 放松了

一点，我的下巴也下垂了 一点。 与'sheet'相同，ee，ee，非常高。

妈的，呃，呃，更低，更放松， 下巴也可能更低。

伙计们，我希望这会有所帮助。 如果有两个 词你想听到比较，请把

它放在下面的评论中。

就是这样，非常感谢您使用 Rachel 的 英语。