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Hadar: Try it.
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Everybody.
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Good.
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Spit all over my face here.
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Okay.
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So yeah, look, those transitions between
the Z and the TH, these are things that
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we're not used to in Hebrew, that's
why it's more difficult for us.
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Um, but through practice, okay, what
you do in order to improve it - you just
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practice it a lot.
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Okay.
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And when you practice it
you develop muscle memory.
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And through this muscle memory, you get
rid of old habits that is pronouncing it
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the Israeli way, and you learn new habits.
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But repetition and practice is pretty
important, like in anything, but here
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especially.
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All right?
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So, after the TH, uh,
who wants to read this?
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Great.
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So I'm hearing it's a "cheap" - "cheap".
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What's the difference?
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There is no difference.
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"cheap" - "chip", "cheap" - "chip".
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"cheap" - "chip".
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That's not "cheap" - "cheap".
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"Cheap" and "chip" - two different sounds.
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Now, in Hebrew, we have
one E, okay, like EM, EMA.
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But in English you have two different E's.
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Now, first of all, let's
perceive the difference.
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Do you hear the difference between a tense
E - "cheap" and a relaxed 'i' - "chip"?
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Do you hear the difference?
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Okay, good.
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These are not, this is not this,
these are not the same sounds.
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So, and you have many of those pairs that
we or other foreign speakers pronounce it
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the same, while there is a big difference.
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For American speakers, it's
not even the same sound.
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What is the difference?
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The first one is a tense and long E.
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It's like you're taking the
Israeli E and exaggerating it.
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E, that's right.
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"E".
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You can smile a bit when you pronounce
it, the tongue is pushing forward.
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E.
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Good.
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A few examples.
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We have "sheep", "seat", "feel", "dream".
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Very good.
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Good.
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It's not a 'slip', okay, or 'ship'.
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"sheep" - tense.
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While the relaxed 'i' sound is somewhere
for us between the E and the A.
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Okay.
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It's like an 'i' sound.
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"ship".
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Very good.
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"ship", more relaxed, very neutral.
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Like you're too cool to make this E sound,
you're going to like, relax - "ship".
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We have it in words like
"kid", I always do this...
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"kid".
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Yeah.
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Um, "finish".
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Not 'feeneesh' - that
would be Hebrew - "finish".
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Right.
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Let's hear that distinction
between "sheep" and "ship".
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Yes.
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