Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 235

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

• 00:10

  This is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast, where I help you to get a better understanding of the english language so that you can talk to people, have conversations with people, and impress people with your control and fluency.

• 00:24

  So we do that by looking at the grammar aspects, of course, and looking at idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, and all sorts of other aspects, in particular, pronunciation.

• 00:35

  So, this particular podcast is brought to you by the letter I.

• 00:39

  So, last week we had the letter h.

• 00:42

  Now we're looking at the letter I.

• 00:43

  And this can be a little bit confusing, because when we look at the Alphabet a b c d, e f g h I, we pronounce I like the word eye I with a dot on it.

• 00:59

  But of course, in words like in or if or it, then of course, we're not pronouncing I.

• 01:10

  It's not I for I or ein.

• 01:14

  Yeah, it's in or it or if.

• 01:17

  So, there's an immediate confusion for those people who are trying to learn the language for the first time, and that's understandable.

• 01:24

  But the most important thing, first of all, is that it is the letter I.

• 01:30

  Okay?

• 01:30

  So, hopefully, I'll give you some exercises to do, some words you can practice and give you a better understanding of those pronunciations.

• 01:39

  So, as I said, when we have words like if it in, then the sound is a much shorter vowel sound.

• 01:50

  Okay, it's a much shorter vowel sound.

• 01:52

  And when we talk about the normal letter I, it's got the long vowel sound AI.

• 02:01

  Okay, so we can use letters like high.

• 02:07

  Okay, high.

• 02:09

  The high wall.

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