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Wakeup2 Posted 15 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

My problems with "th" sound w/ audio of me speaking

I've been trying to correct my "th" sounds recently. I used to say "d" or "f" depending on the voiced or voiceless "th". I recorded me saying "th"s here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?5s9tbjt9r9498uh

This is the passage I read:

"My brother and I drive each other crazy. Even though he is almost 30 years old, he likes to play pranks on me all the time. Last summer he glued feathers onto my yellow bathing suit while I was asleep on the beach. Another time, he told me he gave away $300 worth of my new clothes to charity. I had to take deep breaths to keep myself calm each time. "

I feel I'm saying "th"s too plosively. Not sure if that's true though.

Please give me some comments on my th pronounciation or if I'm pronouncing other words wrongly.

Thank you so much!
  

Top answer

Hello, wakeup - and welcome to English Forums. Your [ ð ] is excellent! Do it just that way.

  • Hello, wakeup - and welcome to English Forums.
  • Your [ ð ] is excellent!
  • Do it just that way.
  • Please notice that it is not pronounced in the word 'clothes' [ klouz ].
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Hello, wakeup - and welcome to English Forums.

Your [ð ] is excellent! Do it just that way. Please notice that it is not pronounced in the word 'clothes' [ klouz ].
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Oh right! Clothes. Thanks!

I'm wondering: are voiced and unvoiced "th" different then? Does voiced th have a small plosive quality and unvoiced is totally smooth? Voiced is like the d in "dleeve" and unvoiced is like the s in "sleeve"?
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I don't know 'dleeve'. That plosive quality you notice at the beginnin of /ð/ is just the voice starting up, I think. Otherwise, the formation of the sounds is the same in the mouth.

Voiced (ð): this, thus

Unvoiced (?): thespian, thrust

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