You don't want to confuse these words!

10 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Hadar Shemesh. This content was uploaded by Hadar Shemesh. This is a YouTube video titled "You don't want to confuse these words!" created on August 10, 2023, featuring Hadar Shemesh discussing pronunciation differences between similar-sounding words like 'beach' and 'bitch', emphasizing the importance of vowel length and tongue position.

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When you're talking about going to the beach, the beach is a lovely place to be at. It has a tense E sound. Beach, beach. But if you don't raise your tongue and prolong the sound a little bit when you say that you're going to the beach, it might sound that you're saying, I'm going to the bitch, which is probably not what you're trying to say. Now, this vowel sound is generally longer, so for those of you who substitute this sound with a neutral sound, notice that the length plays a significant role here as well.