Dr Geoff Lindsey | Mastering English vowels /ɪ/ and /iː/ with Google Translate! @DrGeoffLindsey | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 44 minutes ago.
People are amazed when I use Google Translate to explain the difference between the English vowels shown in dictionaries as /ɪ/ and /iː/ (aka 'short i and long e', or the KIT vowel and the FLEECE vowel). With a little help from French!

0:00 Intro: KIT and FLEECE
1:34 Standard phonetic symbols
3:35 Symbols don't always help
4:15 FLEECE ɪj and French ille
5:21 Google Translate
6:05 KIT ɪ and French é
7:22 Google Translate
9:02 Examples from real speech
10:26 Finding equivalences in other languages

My previous videos on transcribing FLEECE as /ɪj/ include:
youtube.com/watch?v=gtnlGH055TA
youtube.com/watch?v=tPi2jtU7Tl4

MRI videos from Glasgow University:
seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipa-charts/?chart=4

If you want to speak British English clearly and confidently, I recommend this course from accent coach Luke Nicholson:
info: improveyouraccent.co.uk/english-pronunciation-course
sign up: course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register