<audio controls="controls"><source src="https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/967886_f1.ogg" type="audio/ogg"/><source src="https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/967886_f1.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"/><span class="audio"><font color="red">Your browser does <b>not</b> properly support audio yet.</font><br/><span class="st">Listen:</span> <a target="_blank" href="https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/967886_f1.ogg"><b>[ogg]</b></a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/967886_f1.mp3"><b>[mp3]</b></a></span></audio><br/><br/>For me, as a Dutchman, the pronunciation of the definite article 'the' is fairly hard.<br/><br/>I tend to pronounce it as <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Nl-de.ogg"></a>[d?], quite much like the Dutch definite article 'de'.<br/><br/>How should I pronounce the article 'the' in English?<br/><br/>Ron.