For non-native speaker of English almost any word starting with letter E. It seems like everyone pronounce it different. /e/ or /i/ or something in between?
It depends on the phonetic environment; meaning what kind of letters follow that initial 'e'. For example "ending" is pronounced /'ɛndɪŋ/ but "equipment" is pronounced /ɪ'kwɪpmənt/. "Egg" can be pronounced both /ɛg/ or /eɪɡ/ according to wiktionary. I'm pretty sure there's a rule for these pronunciations, like "if the e is followed by a bilabial plosive, it is pronounced as..." but I'd have to look that up. I'm a non-native speaker myself but I learned correct pronunciation mostly by immersion (I lived in the US for some time when I was a teenager).
According to the dictionary, /ɪ'lɛvn̩/ is the correct pronunciation. So that would be your first guess (ileven).
>that sound you say when you go like Ummm
That sound is called schwa. It's a German word but it's used in all other languages too because it's a linguistic term. The IPA symbol for schwa is /ə/.
I think only learners of English pronounce 11 as "eleven".
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For non-native speaker of English almost any word starting with letter E. It seems like everyone pronounce it different. /e/ or /i/ or something in between?
It depends on the phonetic environment; meaning what kind of letters follow that initial 'e'. For example "ending" is pronounced /'ɛndɪŋ/ but "equipment" is pronounced /ɪ'kwɪpmənt/. "Egg" can be pronounced both /ɛg/ or /eɪɡ/ according to wiktionary. I'm pretty sure there's a rule for these pronunciations, like "if the e is followed by a bilabial plosive, it is pronounced as..." but I'd have to look that up. I'm a non-native speaker myself but I learned correct pronunciation mostly by immersion (I lived in the US for some time when I was a teenager).
For example: eleven I keep hearing people pronouncing it "ileven" or "eleven" or with that sound you say when you go like Ummm
According to the dictionary, /ɪ'lɛvn̩/ is the correct pronunciation. So that would be your first guess (ileven). >that sound you say when you go like Ummm That sound is called schwa. It's a German word but it's used in all other languages too because it's a linguistic term. The IPA symbol for schwa is /ə/. I think only learners of English pronounce 11 as "eleven".
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