#you cannot fathom the frustration of this humble hebrew speaker trying to separate the bit vowel and beet vowel. impossible
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English speakers be like English has five vowels but then distinguish the pronunciations of beet, bit, bet, bat, but, bought, bot, boot, beaut, boat, bout, bite and bate. And I didn't even get /ə/, /ʊ/ and /ɔɪ/
#you cannot fathom the frustration of this humble hebrew speaker trying to separate the bit vowel and beet vowel. impossible#one time I was on a minecraft server's pictionary minigame and i got the word right in the last second but i guessed. bitch instead of beach#im sure the vowels i didnt get appear between a /b/ and a /t/ somewhere but man the simplicity man#these are the general american vowels btw naturally some of you pronounce pairs of these the same or have sounds that i didnt mention#original broth#english langblr#language
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