The Real TH | Full Range & Quality of the TH Sounds (including the Lazy TH & "Dental" T/D Variation)

[@Music-uk5dm]

The best and fullest explanation of TH sounds I've ever seen!

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

That's the idea lol 🙂

[@laracroftvideos]

You’re really setting the bar for all ESL teachers to a degree very few will ever live up to haha 😁 Incredible stuff.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

High praise. I might have trouble living up to that myself haha 🙃

[@hyacinth120]

@@NativeEnglishHacks 😄😘

[@pauIlo]

Appreciate a lot! I can notice the difference now between the common T/D sound and Dental T/D Variation. As I'm from Brazil we have Dental T/D in the Portuguese. Like the words ''Dado'' and ''Batata''. That's the sound I heard when a native speak, when they use TH is when they are like enphatizing the context. Now I know how to pronounce ''These things''9:24 so peaceful. 🙂

[@hyacinth120]

The most unique and full or complete coverage of the TH sounds. Finally, I have Josh, native-speaker, American teacher who has validated my knowledge/observation about the "Dental" T/D or Replacement for the very formal TH sounds. Now, I'm fully confident in teaching this topic to my friends in Manila Philippines. We were taught only about enunciation of every word and everytime. This blocks or affect the natural American English sounds and flow on daily conversation. Range is important and depends on situations where we are. We are not always in a meeting or Public speaking that needs more enunciation. Thus, know your Range, don't be a robot or always in Ted Talk mode. 😂😘

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Exactly! :)

[@deliohector]

Great video! It's great that you, as someone who teaches pronunciation, have that crucial skill of being able to NOTICE those nuances related to how natives 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 speak. I notice those details as well when I slow down the audio and/or play it in a loop. As far as I know, you're the only one who talks about the “lazy th”, so props for that!

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Yay, another thing that only I talk about! That's great for me, but I actually wish I wasn't the only one talking about these things. Only so many people will see my videos, but if more teachers knew/talked about this stuff, it could help more people.

[@samueldevoe3048]

I do the fast and easy ones because I'm not native English speaker and we don't have these sounds and the fast and easy ones are very similar to d and t sounds we have and when I try to do the formal th variation is slowing my speech and I can end up biting my tongue accidentally.

[@douglasmarinho3653]

I sometimes use this dropped th when I'm singing, to follow the singers when they're singing fast

[@passionnedepeinture]

Hi! Thank you very much for your content. Can these techniques be applied to British RP pronunciation?

[@kaanmckinley1763]

Wish I could subscribe more than once!

[@davidrock65]

Very useful. Just subscribed to your channel

[@Jasshcsm]

Brilliant stuff again! I know you're busy, but it'd be great if you could make this type of range / placement video about unvoiced sh ʃ and voiced ʒ -sounds. I think those are quite difficult sounds for esl students, mainly finding the right tongue placement and right range or sound.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

I'll probably be making a whole series for all the sounds, but there are only some sounds where this is a big deal. I'll make sure to include the SH and ZH 🙂

[@johnconor5485]

Josh the man

[@fvcctghvf7991]

Hello, love your video. May I ask you a favor ? Do you have a minimal pair video (normal n and dental n with the different positions you explained here? ). I do struggle to hear the difference sometimes between both sounds and it must be why I can’t tell the difference , in some cases, between ‘in a club’ and ‘in the club’ or ‘and a man’ (when d is dropped) /‘and the man’. Kind regards,

[@fvcctghvf7991]

I constantly put my tongue between the teeth to do that n-th thing. But I know I need to relax.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

The difference in sound for the N on the teeth and off the teeth is so small that it doesn't make a difference and we don't hear a difference so a minimal pair lesson for that would be pointless. The trick is in the THs. We modify the placement of the N to the teeth if you use the "Dental" T/D variation, and it's that variation which creates the difference. You put the front of the tongue flat on the teeth for the N and then release the "Dental" T or D from that position instead of doing a normal TH. That's how we tell the difference between "on a" (normal N released into schwa) and "on the" (modified N + "Dental" T or D released into the schwa). I could make a minimal pair lesson for that. It's already on the list of lessons I'll be making

[@fvcctghvf7991]

@@NativeEnglishHacks I understand what you Say thanks so much.yes a video comparing the sounds would be awesome ^^

[@fvcctghvf7991]

However, I do not hear that dental d in multiple cases. For example in the music ‘on the floor’ , I hear ´on nuh floor’. Is it slang or informal ?Or maybe I don’t get it. Kind regards,

[@kevinymagalhaes]

How can it be you're the only teacher talking about it? It pisses me off.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

You and me both 😞

[@kevinymagalhaes]

@@NativeEnglishHacks if KZbin doesn't delete my comments I'll share this word and your channel on every th video I get recommended from now on.