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Hadar Shemesh breaks down four English vowels that sound similar but aren't. Seat uses a tense e, sit uses a relaxed i, set uses a shorter e, and sat uses a. Repeat after her: seat, sit, set, sat; bead, bid, bed, bad.

Hadar Shemesh breaks down four English vowels that sound similar but aren't. Seat uses a tense e, sit uses a relaxed i, set uses a shorter e, and sat uses a. Repeat after her: seat, sit, set, sat; bead, bid, bed, bad.
The tense e as in seat, the relaxed as in sit, the e as in set, and the a as in sat. Now do it with me. Seat, sit, set, set, sat, bead, tense e, bid, relaxed, I bed. That's the e sound and bad. Right. So these are pure vowels. E, I.

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