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The perfect “TH” sound! Perfect English pronunciation


cheers there you know I look at you and
I think you have a really nice really
nice tits your teeth very clean oh very
nice to look at Wow ready when you go
you’re an idiot what we have good dinner
good dancing I said she had nice teeth
you didn’t pronounce it correctly man
teeth teeth never forget the th sound
teeth it’s also it’s not teeths one too
many teeth the plural is teeth D teeth
whew now whatever for this lesson you’ll
need a straw so the sound you know of
the thousands of languages on earth only
a few actually use this sound and even
then there are two versions of it and
mmm how ridiculous is that
thanks English okay all through this
video try to repeat the words with me so
you can practice okay how do you do it
I’ll show you
brought it’s not a lesson you’re just
showing me your mouth teach me okay fine
I’ll teach a lesson on it Jesus
so first thing don’t put your tongue
just behind the teeth because you’ll
stop the airflow and get a dirt sound
there there that doesn’t work and don’t
put your tongue too far out because
you’ll get this sound it looks
ridiculous so what is the perfect
position of the tongue the teeth the
lips and everything in my experience
this exercise is the best and the
easiest to learn it let’s try it with
your mouth open
rest your tongue on the bottom teeth
just behind the bottom lip blow out
gently bring your top teeth down slowly
until naturally that sound comes out
okay now try saying this sentence is
this the thing yes this is the thing now
for some people this is still difficult
and probably during that practice you
sounded like this why is it so hard it’s
because your tongue is too relaxed and
it doesn’t understand what to do what
should I do for this next exercise you
need a straw now the same pressure I
need to hold this straw between my
tongue and my top teeth that’s how tense
your tongue should be when making the
sound so you know the position of it but
this is how strong it should be take
your straw hold it with your thumb
oh hey okay you don’t need much strength
in your tongue just a little bit but
that’s how tense your tongue should be
okay now try this sentence
say it slowly they threw three thick
things another common thing is how far
out should you put your tongue well a
good measure is to put your finger in
front of your lips thank you then that
should be the limit of where your tongue
touches okay you’ve just learned the
unvoiced th sound the unvoiced sound
represented by this symbol unvoiced what
the hell is unvoiced so touch your
throat while you make this sound
nothing’s normal right this is called
the unvoiced keeping your mouth and
tongue and teeth in the same position I
want you to make a vibration in the
throat mmm-hmm this is called the voiced
th sound mmm represented by this symbol
it’s called voiced because you feel a
vibration mmm
voiced no vibration unvoiced oh hey are
you writing in the comments when do I
use the voice and when do I use the
unvoiced th sounds that’s a very good
question but remember this is English
and it’s stupid and ridiculous
we don’t exactly have rules for it only
guides so here are some guides for you
after most consonant sounds like mm and
mm the th sound will be unvoiced for
example in words like strength length
plinth warmth after a vowel sound and
before a schwa sound usually will be
voiced for example brother mother father
either either feather clothes and at the
start of the word it’s usually unvoiced
thank you Thursday but then we’ve got
this that those so again there’s no real
definite rule when to use the voice th
or the unvoiced th it’s more a case of
hear the word think is it unvoiced or
voiced practice it keep it in your
memory for next time okay final
in English we call these tongue twisters
I thought a thought but the thing I
thought I thought wasn’t the thing I
thought I thought 30,000 thoughtless
boys thought they would make a
thundering noise father mother sister
brother hand in hand with one another
are those clothes leather so thank you
for watching
this was great I’ll see you in the next
class bye HS get rid of them ooh hello
and welcome to pronunciation battle
my name’s Brian King this is the game of
pronunciation punishment pay three teams
three teachers three rounds and one
trophy
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