@auroraricottiottmann: vowel can change *everything*. In Italian, we can usually “get away with it” a bit more. In English… not so much. pan /pæn/ ≠ pen /pen/ bin /bɪn/ ≠ bean /biːn/ cup /kʌp/ ≠ cap /kæp/ sheet /ʃiːt/ ≠ shit /ʃɪt/ And yes, sometimes the misunderstanding is not a misunderstanding at all. The problem isn’t your “accent”. It’s that English has vowel sounds Italian doesn’t have, so your brain naturally tries to replace them with the closest Italian sound. This is exactly what we work on in our pronunciation and phonetics courses for Italian speakers: learning to hear the difference first, then training your mouth to produce the sound clearly. For info about our courses, email us at [email protected]