One of the 40 sounds Nunzio listens for. When you read a sentence aloud, the app scores every single sound in it on your phone — this page is what he knows about this one: what tends to come out in its place, and what to do about it.
Spread your lips, tense the tongue high and forward, and hold the vowel longer.
“This vowel deserves TIME, bello! Smile wide, tongue high, and hold it — eeee — like the last note of the opera!”Nunzio, when he hears it
In the app, this sound is put under pressure in Vowel Traps — whole sentences built so it cannot hide.
The classic mix-ups involving this sound, one page per pair: sheep vs ship.
People often say “ee” when a word actually wants “ih” as in ship — each of those pages shows the way back.
Reading about a sound is one thing. Hearing which ones you miss is another.
Nunzio records you reading a sentence, scores every sound in it on your phone — nothing is uploaded — and tells you the one thing worth fixing. Nunzio — Accent Coach is coming to the App Store and Google Play.