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 title: English Pronunciation Exercises
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   - learning
-  - english
-  - pronunciation
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 There are 5 steps provided by EngFluent to practice English pronunciation. They are:

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 title: The Main Sounds of English
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   - learning
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+There are 15 main vowel sounds in English^[Ohata, K. (2004). Phonological differences between Japanese and English: Several potentially problematic areas of pronunciation for Japanese ESL/EFL learners. Asian EFL Journal, retrieved on 20th, July, 2012, from http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/ december_04_KO.php], while Chinese has only 5^[San, D. (2007). The phonology of standard Chinese (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.]. This is why Chinese speakers, like me, tend to pronounce English using only the sounds familiar in our native language.
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+This sometimes results in similar words being pronounced the same way. For example: "heel" and "hill", "sale" and "sell". But don't worry, this can be practiced by **listening to and speaking the two sounds simultaneously**.
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+### /i/ and /ɪ/
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+1. heel - hill
+2. feel - fill
+3. seat - sit
+4. eat - it
+5. beach - bitch
+6. sheet - shit