Learned something new today =)
Learned something new today =)
This is probably related to the fact that "bad" and "bed" sound exactly the same to me.
The vowels are tougher, though. I didn't appreciate how many different vowels there are in English until I married a woman whose native language doesn't have most of them (Hebrew doesn't have the "a" in "bad", the "i" in "grin", nor a bunch of weird regional American "o" sounds)
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/bad
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/bed
(then yes, I guess it's coherent)
I can't hear the distinction between "pin" and "pen" unless I'm really paying attention. Even then I have to say it a dozen or so time before I can make myself say them distinctively. My birth accent is to pronounce them both mostly like "pin".
1. https://youtu.be/CZIINXhGDcs?t=10 2. https://youtu.be/Ws22Nsg1lBI&t=10