LISTENING EXERCISE - American English Lax /ɪ/ Vowel as in INSPIRE! | Improve your American Accent!

Hi guys! This is a listening exercise for the American English high, front, LAX vowel /ɪ/ as in IT or THIS or ENGLISH! If you want to learn to correctly pronounce the /ɪ/ sound, the first step is to learn to perceive it with 100% accuracy, which is tricky for this vowel. In the video, I read 10 pairs of words- in each pair, one of them has the target /ɪ/ sound, and the other one has a different sound. I want YOU to figure out which is which. Check out the video to see how you do! The answers are below- 1. fill- #2 has /ɪ/! 2. it- #2 has /ɪ/! 3. his- #2 has /ɪ/! 4. if- #1 has /ɪ/! 5. film- #2 has /ɪ/! 6. since- #1 has /ɪ/! 7. list- #2 has /ɪ/! 8. bitcoin- #2 has /ɪ/! 9. middle- #1 has /ɪ/! 10. interesting- #1 has /ɪ/! Thanks for watching :-)