this and these

[Boris Tatarenko]

Hello.

My question is: Is there any difference between their pronunciation?
I pronounce them equally.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Grumpy]

I don't know how to write down phonetics, but I certainly pronounce the two words completely differently.
The "i" in "this" is pronounced as it is in "fish", and the word itself is spoken as a short, whole, entity. I pronounce "these" as "theeze", with the "ee" bit extended.

 

[5jj]

this - /ðɪs/
these - /ði:z/

Nearly all of the dictionaries here, OneLook: General dictionary sites, could have told you this. What made you think there might be no difference between the pronunciations of these two words?

 

[Chicken Sandwich]

A lot of Russian speaking people pronounce them the same way because in Russian there is only one kind of "i" sound.