Speakers of languages such as Italian and Spanish tend to have difficulty pronouncing the 'I' in words such as it and is correctly. For example, they might pronounce "it is" as "eat ease."
Are there any good exercises that can help them pronounce the 'I' correctly?
Answer
For an actual exercise, you would have to be face to face with a real teacher. But you can listen to a couple minimal i/e pairs in this video. The woman is really talking like an elementary-school teacher, but she pronounces the pairs clearly. You might want to practice these words beforehand, and see whether you pronounce them the same way she does in the video:
fit - feet
mitt - meat/meet
chip - cheap
sin - scene/seen
wit - wheat
itch - each
Youtube: The Difference Between I and E
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