CONTRASTS

as in <BEAT> , as in <BIT> Listen

Listen and practise:
Listen

- -
sheep - ship
seat - - sit

+ - - - - +
seedy - - - - - - - - -city

That is a big ship
There were six sheep in the field
It was a seedy city

Norwegian learners problems:
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We do have a long and a short "i"-sound in Norwegian, too (fin - finn), but particularly the short "i"-sound is slightly different from the English one. To get the right you could make your tongue glide between an and an -sound and stop midway between the two. Then you will produce an acceptable English . However, when the short "i" comes at the end of a word, it has a quality closer to the long "i", and in most dictionaries these days it is symbolized by .
Example: >city>: