Affricates (tʃ and dʒ) | 44 Sounds of American English

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today practice for /tʃ/sound - Thank you.

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[@ramzy-6566]

is that mean you use the laminal of the tongue not the apical of the tongue for t and ʃ and d and ʒ combination sounds. i mean for T as in time you use the top or apical of the tongue and touche the Alveolar but for tʃ combination use the laminal of the tongue or the same place ( post Alveolar )of the tongue to make ʃ sound to make the t first the release. the same for for dʒ combination use the laminal of the tongue or the same place ( post Alveolar ) of the tongue to make ʒ sound to make the d first the release. you don't have to make normal d the move to ʒ sound. Thank you for the best video.

[@RobertTeachesEnglish]

That sounds pretty accurate to me. It's just hard to say because it all feels like it's happening at once. I think it's easier to think about as one cohesive sound, but as a native speaker, my perspective is skewed. Thanks for the kind words!

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[@soniab6972]

What do you think about another affricate in English, the "voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate" /ts/?🙄 Yes, I think you have this sound in English too(or something extremely similar), in the plural of the nouns ending in "t" at singular. For exemple, "cat(s)" or"bat(s)"; when we add the "s", the final sound is /ts/like the "voicelles alveolar sibilant affricate" The same /ts/sound I can hear it in "it's" ( the contracted form of "it is" or "it has") or in "its"( the possessive form of the pronoun "it") But the word "tsar"( borrowed from Russian) is pronunced in American English as /za:r/ and not as /tsa:r/ even if the /ts/sound is not extremely strange (totaly unknown) for native English speakers 😂It's exactly the same /ts/sound as in the words "tsunami" or "cats" or "pizza".

[@RobertTeachesEnglish]

Interesting! I had to research this one. It looks like shows up in a lot of English dialects, but not in most "American" English-apparently in some speakers with New York accents though. For whatever reason, the pronunciations of pizza and cats don't qualify-I guess because we pronounce the t and s seperately enough? I might need to ask my old linguistics professor about this one because now I am curious.

[@soniab6972]

@@RobertTeachesEnglish I checked on youglish and 99,9% of native English speakers pronounce the group of letters "ts" at the end of the words as an affricate consonant, as the Russians pronounce this sound in the word "tsar" or the Italians pronounce it in the words "canzone" and "pizza" or the German in the word "zwei"😁 At least that's how I hear it.😀No /t/ and /s/ sounds pronounced separately, or a "stop t" followed immediately by a pure /s/sound, but a combination of them, a combination from which results a distinct sound (phoneme) as in the case of the other 2 affricates in English ,and respecting the same rule to be considerated an affricate too and not a " stop -fricative sequence"(as I read on Wikipedia about it). But because in English the /ts/sound appears very rarely at the beginning ("tsunami", "tsar") or in the middle of the words ("pizza"), some native English speakers feel themselves so uncomfortable pronouncing it as naturally as at the end of their english words.😀

[@RobertTeachesEnglish]

@@soniab6972 I would agree that I hear the same thing as you. I remember my linguistics professor mentioning the fact that when the sound shows up at the beginning of the word it's a different phoneme. I can't personally hear the difference, so I put my hands in the air and leave it to the professional linguists. I'm having a livestream with a linguist later today; you should pop in and ask him about this. Maybe he has some additional insight. It's very interesting stuff for sure. Thanks for giving my brain something to ponder this morning.

[@yabbaso]

My 5 year old struggles with Affricates - I'm really not sure how I can teach him this so he understands how to form them. It's literally just the affricates. :(

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Have you tried tongue twisters like the ones at the end of the video?

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