/i/ – Close Front Unrounded Vowel


Notes:

Features:

  • Tongue Position: Front
  • Nasality: Oral
  • Roundedness: Unrounded

Video Library:

This sound has the exact same tongue position as the vowel sound in the English words "see", "knee", "he" and "she." 

When this sound occurs in Spanish, it is shorter in length than in English.  The audio reviews this vowel sound then compares the pronunciations of "see" and "sí."

mi [mi], misa [mi.sä], hija [i.xä], listo [li.st̪o̞], idea [i.d̪e̞.ä], idolo [i.d̪o̞.lo̞], ilusión [i.lu.sio̞n̪], ipo [i.po̞], aquí [ä.ki], iba [i.βä]