Front vowels pronunciation practice

A list of icons: a book with the letters ENG; a piece of paper with a pencil; an audio symbol; a speech bubble, and some blocks depicting the letters "a, b, c" - the audio symbol and the speech bubble are highlighted in blue

Sometimes hearing and producing the different front vowels /e/ and /æ/ is quite difficult. Here are some words and sentences for practicing this. Just listen and repeat. Pause, rewind and repeat as many times as necessary.

Individual words grouped by prominent phoneme:

Many thanks to Susan Lasche for the recordings!

Sentences containing both phonemes:

Many thanks to Susan Lasche for the recordings!

Look for an introduction to vowels in general, and these vowels in particular, here.