Like many people learning English, Swedish speakers
have difficulty hearing the difference between the dipthong
/iy/ and the phoneme /I/. Play the sounds below and
listen to the difference.
Seat
Sit
Sleep
Slip
Heating
Hitting
The following are other sounds
that may cause problems for Swedish speakers. Play the sounds
below to compare.
Man
Men
Pan
Pen
There are other sounds that many English
language learners have difficulty with. The consonants "t" and "th"
as well as "v" and "w" are especially problematic.
Play the sounds below to compare.
Three
Tree
Vest
West
Check-Up: Match each audio clip to the correct image.
Heating/Hitting
Wrong
Right
Bait/Bet
Right
Wrong
Cherry/Sherry
Right
Wrong
Vest/West
Right
Wrong
Bear/Beer
Wrong
Right
Seat/Sit
Wrong
Right
Man/Men
Wrong
Right
Sleep/Slip
Right
Wrong
Three/Tree
Right
Wrong
Eel/Ill
Wrong
Right
Fool/Full
Right
Wrong
Bait/Bet
Wrong
Right
Can you say this?
The cheery men picked up their glasses of sherry and said "Good luck to
all the fools sitting here this evening."
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The man's late bet won him a case of beer that night.
