People are amazed when I use Google Translate to explain the difference between the English vowels shown in dictionaries as /ɪ/ and /iː/ (aka 'short i and long e', or the KIT vowel and the FLEECE vowel). With a little help from French!

0:00 Intro: KIT and FLEECE
1:34 Standard phonetic symbols
3:35 Symbols don't always help
4:15 FLEECE ɪj and French ille
5:21 Google Translate
6:05 KIT ɪ and French é
7:22 Google Translate
9:02 Examples from real speech
10:26 Finding equivalences in other languages

My previous videos on transcribing FLEECE as /ɪj/ include:
   • Why these English phonetic symbols ar...  
   • LENGTH and LINKING in British, Americ...  

MRI videos from Glasgow University:
https://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipa-ch...

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