{"id":173799,"date":"2015-05-06T05:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachel-smith-live.prev21.rmkr.net\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2024-03-29T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T10:57:33","slug":"say-win-vs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/say-win-vs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Say WIN vs WHEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Learn to differentiate between similar-sounding words by mastering their vowel sounds. This ensures accuracy in English conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/comparison\/\" rel=\"tag\">Comparison<\/a><\/span> <strong>YouTube blocked? <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BkHLagTJQw\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"How to Say WIN vs WHEN - American English Pronunciation\" title=\"Play video &quot;How to Say WIN vs WHEN - American English Pronunciation&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BkHLagTJQw<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BkHLagTJQw\" title=\"How to Say WIN vs WHEN - American English Pronunciation\">How to Say WIN vs WHEN &#8211; American English Pronunciation (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BkHLagTJQw)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/p>\n<p><h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In this American English pronunciation video, we&#8217;re going to go over the difference between WIN and WHEN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I have several videos comparing vowels, but in this video we&#8217;re going to compare two different words.\u00a0 Thanks to the fan who suggested this topic.\u00a0 These two words, WIN and WHEN are a minimal pair.\u00a0 A minimal pair is a set of two words where only one sound is different.\u00a0 In this case, it&#8217;s the middle sound, the vowel sound.\u00a0\u00a0 WIN has the IH as in SIT vowel, WHEN has the EH as in BED vowel.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the difference between these two vowel sounds?\u00a0 For the IH vowel in WIN, we drop the jaw just a bit.\u00a0 The tongue tip stays down, touching the back of the bottom front teeth.\u00a0 But the front part reaches up towards the roof of the mouth.\u00a0 IH, ih.\u00a0 For WHEN, the EH vowel, the jaw will drop a little more.\u00a0 Rather than the front part raising here, the middle part might lift a bit.\u00a0 Whe-, eh.\u00a0 And the back part of the tongue will feel wide.\u00a0 Whe-, eh, when.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The other two sounds are the same, with the lips rounding for the W, and the tongue lifting to the roof of the mouth for the N, when.\u00a0 Make sure that the tongue is flat, wide, and relaxed when it lifts for the N.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let&#8217;s watch these two words in slow motion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Please put any questions and suggestions for videos in the comments.\u00a0 That&#8217;s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel&#8217;s English.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"video\"><\/a><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-173799-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/333%20-%20How_to_Pronounce_WIN_vs_WHEN_-_American_English.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/333%20-%20How_to_Pronounce_WIN_vs_WHEN_-_American_English.mp4\">https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/333%20-%20How_to_Pronounce_WIN_vs_WHEN_-_American_English.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to differentiate between similar-sounding words by mastering their vowel sounds. 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