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It's a problem with both the final sounds and the vowel sounds. They are pronouncing the short "i" like long "ee."

I teach university students in China. While teaching the difference between /th/ and /s/ with word pairs such as thin/sin, thing/sing, think/sink, three/see, thick/sick, and others, I discovered that my students have a hard time with the short /i/ sound. They pronounce thin and thing the same way. I...