Ruta de Aprendizaje de Inglés – Nivel A2 (Básico)

ESL: How to Pronounce the THS sound in American English. Improve your American Accent / spoken English at Myenglishbro! with video-based lessons and exercises. The THS is one of the English sound combinations that can be tricky. One tip that will help: keep your tongue relaxed. A relaxed tongue is necessary to make the TH. If the tongue has tension in it, the TH will sound like a stop consonant rather than one that can be continuously held.

ESL: I made this video while in Perú when I noticed they said the B sound when they should have been saying V.

Voiced and unvoiced consonants. Many consonants in English are paired together because one is the unvoiced version of the other. They take the same mouth position, and the same tongue position. But in one of them, you just go ‘hhh,’ passing air. In the other one, you actually make a sound: uh, uh. For example: ch, ch. Only air is coming through my teeth. Jj, jj: I’m making an ‘uh, uh’ sound here. Within the pairs, the unvoiced sounds are: tt, ff, pp, kk, th, ss, sh, ch. The voiced sounds of those are: dd, vv, bb, gg, th, zz, dj, jj. And in the consonants that have no pair, there is only one that is unvoiced. And that is the hh as in ‘hi.’ The others are all voiced. mm, nn, ng, ll, rr, yy, ww.

I recently got an email asking me to make a video on the difference between the nn, N, and ng, NG sound. The nn sound: This sound feels more forward, it feels here, because the part of the tongue that raises is more forward. This forward part of the tongue raises and touches the roof Nn, nn, nice. On the ng, NG sound, it feels further back because the part of the tongue that raises is further back. For here, it is this part of the tongue, ng, ng, that raises and touches the throat / back part of the mouth. Nn, ng, nn, ng. Also, the jaw makes a small shift, but that is only to accommodate the part of the tongue that is moving. Nn, ng. It drops a little bit more, nn, ng, and moved back a bit. It’s a down and back motion. Some words: Sin, nn, sing, ng. Sin, nn, touches here. Sing, ng, touches here. Fun, fun … fung-ng-ng-us. Fun, fungus*. Sun, nn, sung, nn. [x2] The word running has both sounds in it. Run, nn, is the forward sound. Running is the back sound. So watch how my jaw moves on this word: Running.