Consonant Sounds: TH (/θ/) & TH (/ð/) | American English Pronunciation and Ear Training Course

[@laracroftvideos]

Brilliant! This is everything I was hoping it would be and more! Can't wait for more videos in the consonant series. 😊

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Glad to live up to expectations 😎😀 There's a bit more about the TH that I decided to cut, but that information will be in future lessons (linking and commonly mispronounced words)

[@facundogauna8820]

I knew it. I knew you were going to be the first person to make a video about it. Your channel is the best. I was completely sure that a was hearing dental Ds and Ts in movies and tv shows, but I needed someone to confirm it. Thank u so much! Greetings from Argentina.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

De nada! Glad I could help ☺

[@GG-fy5hm]

This man should live forever

[@bang_2]

Love love love this. I gotta make note for this so that i don't forget about this

[@patrikistok9410]

Thank you! :)

[@o_felipe_reis]

Hi there! You are right! I speak english since many years and I still have some issues with TH. LoL.... Great video buddy!

[@cesarfordmorel8013]

I hope you are doing well. Thank you for your videos.

[@007Layanne]

Do you teach on Italki ? One of the best pronounciation teachers I've seen on KZbin

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Thanks! I do currently teach on italki, but I'm trying to move away from that over the next year or so if I can so that I can focus on other things (like this channel). I'm not currently looking for students, either, but I might have a few special openings in the near future that I'll announce here if it happens ☺

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

Great!! I like your videos before even watching them😁😂 .

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

I must be doing something right, then lol

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

@@NativeEnglishHacks 😁 of course 👍

[@liangxu530]

Is it possible to put all consonants videos into one group of playlist like vowel?

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Of course! I was going to do that after I finished all the main lessons for the consonant sounds. I'll make it now, but we still have ch/j and y coming soon ☺

[@IgorOlikh]

Unbelievable! It's so much easier to pronounce as you described. Why is it always described as 'between the teeth'?

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

I assume that's the default, traditional, fully articulated version and teachers just tend to repeat what they were taught with an unjustified emphasis on supposed "clear" speech rather than paying attention to how they actually speak. There's nothing wrong with putting it between the teeth, and it can just happen that way at any time, but we tend to use it more for enunciation and emphasis (even then, it's not required). Ultimately, I'm not completely sure why it's taught that way. And thanks for becoming a channel member 🙂

[@soggy_popcorn]

Would you say that replacing th-sounds with a dental d/t is a purely American phenomenon? As far as I can tell, Brits seem to always enunciate the th-sound clearly, unless they speak a “th-less” accent such as Cockney.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Good question. I don't know enough about other dialects to say for sure, but I don't think I've noticed it. Then again, like most Americans, I never noticed in American English, either, until it was brought to my attention about a year ago. Now I hear it all the time. So it's possible other dialects use it

[@iiAbdullah635]

I still struggle pronouncing ch to voiced th for example: watch the. is there anything that changes in this one? like one them get dropped or something?

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Not really, especially bc of cases like where "the" and "a" could get confused, for example. However, there are two things you can do to make it easier. 1) Slide into the dental D version of the voiced TH. 2) Make a very lazy TH by slightly moving in that direction after leaving the CH. Regardless of how you do it, it can also help to slightly flatten the tip a bit more for the CH to make the transition more fluid. All that and, of course, mouth posture. There's a decent chance that's the real source of the problem

[@GG-fy5hm]

hey I noticed that when you pronounce letter T it doesnt produce that air sound (idk what its called i mean the sound like crisp) most of the time. Can we do that as well without producing that T sound kinda like in british english?

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

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[@GG-fy5hm]

@@NativeEnglishHacks thx

[@liangxu530]

It seems like no any rules when "th" is voiced and when is voiceless. How bad is it when a word should be voiced, but I pronounced voiceless, vice verse because I had difficulty to remember them. Any suggestions? I like you mentioned the common mistakes. Thank you.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Don't remember them, practice them. Repeat them a million times in conversation, in isolation, in example sentences, and so on. Use them. That's how you remember them. That's how you build skill and not just knowledge.

[@liangxu530]

Thank you. Will do.