Examples: how to pronounce T: American English Pronunciation

[@DemimondeMesilaThraam]

I watched this video as a native born English speaker. I found it very interesting...how did I manage to grow up instinctively picking all this up before I was even five years old? I have never studied a foreign language and now I can see there's more to learning one than remembering the vocabulary words! I want to thank all the people who are learning to speak English as a new language and are going through the trouble of pronouncing it in a way that can be understood properly. I have gotten frustrated before when people spoke it badly and from now on I will have more patience.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for this great feedback - it's always great to hear positive things! :) Demimonde!

[@rodolfooviedo6542]

In the sentence "I slept well last night", you pronounced "last" with a stopped t. Maybe, there is a stronger rule: a t follow by an n is pronounced as a stopped t. Thanks Rachel for your awesome videos!

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[@rachelsenglish]

If you are comfortable with how to make each sound, just make them individually with breaks in-between. Think about what you have to change about the mouth position to go from one sound to the next. Then break it down and practice single transitions, like T to R or R to OO. Do these over and over to train your muscles. Then slowly put the whole word together, and eventually speed it up. Best, Rachel

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[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing! :)

[@bearat4096]

Thanks for the videos, Rachel. For those whose native languages have a trilled "R" sound, I've noticed when learning the American "R" in words like "water" and "later" that it is exactly like the trilled "R" sound (but don't trill it more than once). I hope this helps.

[@rachelsenglish]

@Clepsidra16 Hi - good question. Yes, as a stand alone word, 'was' would be [wʌz] or [wəz]. Because it is linking to a word that begins with an S however, the unvoiced version of the z sound, the Z just gets turned into and S sound in everyday speech, which is quite fast. You won't hear the s as a separate sound, you will just hear it as the S in sent.

[@louisecuento]

Best American English teacher ever!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Louisa!

[@alextellez8353]

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[@rachelsenglish]

It follows the rule for an ending T: it will usually be pronounced as a stop T --- unless the next word begins with a vowel/diphthong ("eight in the morning"), in which case it will be a flap T/

[@norbertomoritz]

This and the first video are a blessing to intermediate learners. Thank you very much.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome!

[@milindbharankar1256]

This vdo is a complete T pronouncation specialisation in my opinion. This is really one of greatest vdos. Thank you very much.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Milind!

[@rachelsenglish]

@cecygerardway I've not heard it pronounced as a D in these situations, but it is pretty common to leave the T out in words like twenty, center, interview. I have a video on the numbers 11-20 that goes over that pronunciation.

[@NaveedImranS]

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[@haddadghia8476]

wowww! I am Lebanese and I have the goal to improve my pronunciation, you're helping me a lot, than you!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Haddad!

[@messenger4074]

well i've never imagined that " T " is more complicated than my philosophy class -.-"

[@thinkusaarabic]

Me too 🤣

[@mekdib9269]

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[@rachelsenglish]

@naterkane Hi Nater -- yes, if you pronounce a true T, people won't wonder about the spelling. But it would be the tendency of Americans to pronounce that T as a D. The problem is it's a name that isn't normal to Americans. My mom is named Rita, for example, where a T falls between 2 vowels, and she pronounces it as a D. However, because it is a known name to Americans, there is no confusion. In short, there is no way to 'pronounce it better'. Either say it with D and spell it, or say it

[@trieuqtran]

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[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Trieu!

[@rachelsenglish]

The syllable TAR has secondary stress, and the T is always True at the beginning of a stressed (or secondary stress) syllable. Also, there are almost always at least a few exceptions to any given rule. 'Politics', for example, has a True T.

[@zhihuiwu9687]

Can I check with u why last night is for true T and in your last video just one is for stop T? I am confused about the ST cluster. Pls help to explain. Thank you very much.

[@rachelsenglish]

@paulohlcoelho There is a secondary stress on the TUDE syllable, so it would be attiTude. :) Good question.

[@lindaleung6691]

... I later found another great video from you that addressed the TS sound. Thanks for all the free lessons!! For everyone who has the same question - the video is called HOW TO MAKE THE TS SOUND.

[@godislove6541]

Thank you so much Rachel😍😊you're the best teacher ..coming from ZAMERICAN ENGLISH channel

[@rachelsenglish]

You're so welcome Hana!

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One of your best videos ever. Very clarifying. Thank you a lot.

[@rachelsenglish]

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[@suestraw2998]

This is really well done. Clear and easy to understand American English.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Sue!

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[@joselogabo]

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[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome @KaremRaad!

[@rachelsenglish]

Right. It has to do with the sounds, not the letters. So the last two sounds of 'slept' are [p] and [t]. But the last two sounds of 'night' are [aɪ] and [t] -- so the sound before the T was not a consonant, but the [aɪ] diphthong. :)

[@rachelsenglish]

I have a general video on Stop Consonants that might help. Best, Rachel

[@calebokafor7107]

One of the most useful English lesson videos I've watched! Thanks

[@rachelsenglish]

Careful --the letter T in TH has nothing to do with the [t] sound, but rather the TH sounds [θ] or [ð]. So the T at the end of those words will follow Stop T rules. Check out the video on How to Pronounce AT.

[@MarcosAntonioMattar]

Dear great teacher Rachel. Thank you.

[@rachelsenglish]

@maximinx If I was speaking at regular speed, for example "I sent it yesterday", I would definitely not release the T, so it would be a stop, and the most stressed word of the sentence would be yesterday. If I was saying just "I sent it", especially if I was really stressing the word 'sent', then I probably would release the T.

[@rachelsenglish]

If there is a break or pause, or the sentence feels overall choppy instead of smooth.

[@yolandaarteaga480]

This video will help me a lot. Thank you very much Rachel.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome as always Yolanda! :)

[@aqibsafi]

hi Rachel,your teaching is awesome. You explain very effectively but I request you to give more examples or else please make a particular video with 100 or 200 words so that we can listen and imitate.

[@SandboChang]

Your tutorial is wonderful! It answered much of my questions and cure my confuses on pronouncing the t sound. Looking forward to more of your work!

[@starffgamer1258]

Hi, Rachel, amazing video I learned about T pronunciation thanks for making this video

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome Ghanshyam!

[@UnknownProfileGPT]

I am very grateful for your work, this was an excellent test to test everything I had already learned on the subject about the T sound, the part that I loved the most was the example at minute 6:56 and one more thing I discovered was knowing the union of the words (out of) = ''outta'' I had not noticed. 🙌 really thank you very much teacher Rachel 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome and thanks for sharing @WernerSanchez!

[@leafar1986]

You say a lot the word "sentence" throughout the video and it's a clear example of the way the stop-t should be pronounced, I practiced several times when you said that word

[@cecygerardway]

@rachelsenglish thank you so much, rachel, I´m from Argentine and your videos helped me a lot, at the university where I go we study british english and I don´t like it, but fortunately I found your videos some day and they were really useful to me, now I have to chanche my english pronunciation a lot but with your help it will be easier :) greetings from Argentine.

[@longjamranjit1682]

Though English is tough pronunciation 'cause of ma'am Rachael it becomes easy to pronounce .

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Longjam!

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[@alvaroosorio3822]

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[@rachelsenglish]

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[@dariuszenthoefer3758]

Feel free to ignore me and my Grammar Nazi ways, but I would like to let you know that the word "you're" implies a conjunction of the two words "you are". It's the apostrophe that does it. "Your" is the form indicative of ownership to one who is being spoken to.

[@rachelsenglish]

Yes, that would be a nice way to pronounce the sentence.

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[@rachelsenglish]

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[@rachelsenglish]

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[@rachelsenglish]

@willbali64 You're welcome! The transcript for each video is the first link in the description of the video, which will appear underneath the video as you watch. Look for TRANSCRIPT: :)

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[@msaabneh1]

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[@rachelsenglish]

No -- I wouldn't advocate feeling a swallowed or cut off sound. The stop for the T happens in the front of the mouth with the tongue.

[@marvelouss719]

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[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks @marvelouss719!

[@thuphamthihong5381]

I like videos that you teach about pronunciation. They help me too much

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for watching Thu!

[@echotang8747]

I got a question, Rachel. I was taught when the T is after S, it should be pronounced as a flap d, such as stove, string, state. When the P is after S, it should be pronounced as [b], such as speak

[@eduardonunez1109]

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[@rachelsenglish]

As a foreign name, 'Tatiana' doesn't follow American rules -- we would not flap the second T. So both T's are a True T.

[@rachelsenglish]

You should see my video on numbers ... I explain that many people will drop the T in 'twenty.

[@ayoubbrown_]

My god this helped too much Mrs. Rachel. Thank you so much.

[@rachelsenglish]

@joselogabo Excellent! I'm glad to hear it.

[@rachelsenglish]

You can think of there being just one T at the beginning of 'time' -- but make sure you really link! Say this phrase as if it were just 1 word.

[@zhihuiwu9687]

Can I check with u why last night is for true T and in your last video just one is for stop T? I am confused about the ST cluster. Pls help to explain. Thank you very much.

[@rachelsenglish]

Hi! The T sounds can be confusing because native speakers will do different things at different times. There is not a rule that is ALWAYS followed, unfortunately. So, you may hear a True T in the word 'last' at times, and then at other times you'll hear the T dropped or stopped. I would recommend listening to native speakers use this word 'last' using YouGlish.com - that way you'll hear a lot of examples of how it might be pronounced: youglish.com/pronounce/last/english/us?

[@zhihuiwu9687]

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[@joymn2004]

very helpful! Thank you so much for doing this

[@kittenonthekeys8369]

Hi Rachel, I understand the first two "t"s in the word "attitude" should be pronounced as stop t, but isn't the third t supposed to be pronounced as a stop t,too? Cuz it's also between two vowels

[@오살구-d1q]

It was really more complicated to learn T than I've expected haha.. but this video is very useful for learners!!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thank you!

[@NoHealerJustPain]

It is quite difficult to me to understand how I should do this sound but I will try. Thank you so much.

[@MyPeterTam]

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[@rachelsenglish]

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[@yuxuanyang4767]

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[@rachelsenglish]

We don't convert the T to because it is a (secondary) stressed syllable. :)

[@rachelsenglish]

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[@rachelsenglish]

@maximinx I tried, but it rejected it b/c it was too long ... I'll have to be extra careful to keep them under 10 minutes!

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[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure Paris! :)

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[@El_terribleCL]

Thank you Rachel!! I was a bit confused about double T sound

[@jys365]

Concise explanations, Thanks!

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[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks!

[@xinyuanyu974]

Hi, Rachel. I really like the videos you posted here. They are awesome. After watching this great video, I have one question for attitude. we convert tt to a flap t. But how about the next t as in tude? I mean itude. This t is between two vowels and should we convert this one into a flap T? Thanks so much! Have fun in CA!

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[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Hawraa!

[@maximinx]

Excellent Video. Thanks so much. BTW, why didn't you upload your "T pronunciations" video here on KZbin?

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[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome! Mariem!

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[@rachelsenglish]

Thank you!