Beach or bitch?

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Pronunciation is a crucial part of learning any language. Some would even argue that it’s the most important. It doesn’t matter how much you know about the grammar rules if your pronunciation is so terrible that people can’t understand you.
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Are you one of the many English learners who mix up the pronunciation of the two words: BITCH and BEACH? Do not feel bad about yourself because most nonnative speakers find differentiating the two nearly impossible! Chinese do not have these two sounds, so when reading the word beach people intuitively pronounce it like bitch. Mastering the I in “bitch" is going to take training both your ears and your mouth.
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A
achieve   agree  appeal
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cease cheap cheat cheek cheese cheetah chief chimpanzee clean conceal creak crease creek creep
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D
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E
each eager eagle ease east Easter eat eaves eel eerie employee equal eve even evil exceed
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feast feat feature fee feeble feed feel feet female flea flee fleece fleet freak free freeze

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2 V" q+ u) w" n* Pgeese genie gleam glean grease glee greed green greet guarantee

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I
increase indeed
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jeans jeep

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L
leach lead lee leaf league leak leak lean leap lease leash least leave
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me
meal
mean
measles
meat
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needle
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O
ordeal
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peace
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peak
peanut
peat
peek
peel
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peer
piece
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preach
precede
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Q
queasy
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R
reach
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real
really
reap
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reed
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reel
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relief
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screen
sea
seal
seam
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seat
see
seed
seek
seem
seen
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seethe
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sheep
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shriek
siege
sleek
sleep
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sleeve
smear
sneak
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speak
species
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speed
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steam
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steeple
streak
stream
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succeed
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teak
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tear
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teem
teen
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three
treason
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treaty
tree
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we
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wean
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weak
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weird
weep
wheat
wheel
wheeze
wield
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yeast
yield
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bin, bid, big, bit, dim, did, dig, dip, fin, fig, fit, gin, gig, him, his, hid, hit, hip, jib, Jim, jig, jip, kin, Kim, kid, kit, lid, lit, lip, nip, pin, pig, pit, rim, rid, rig, rip, sin, sit, sip, tin, tip, win, wit, zip, zit

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