How Native English Speakers ACTUALLY Pronounce the TH Sound!

Here’s how to practice your American Pronunciation – imagine that you take some water in your mouth, then start watching my video and repeat every sentence after me! Here’s the sounds you have to FOCUS on: R sound, flap T sound, W sound, ‘Ash’ sound, dark L sound - the more you practice, the better you’ll get at it! Video Transcript Below: Hi guys, it's Robby here from AccentAdventure.com where we learn to sound like American English speakers, right? But in case you don't really aspire to sound like an American English speaker, if your goal is just to improve your pronunciation enough to sound decent while communicating with other people in English, you still may want to check out the blog, AccentAdventure.com right here! Just click on this link and it's going to take you to my blog where you'll find dozens upon dozens of very relevant articles and videos and it's all about pronunciation improvement. It's not necessarily how to sound like a British English speaker or an American English speaker but it's going to improve your accent big time, even if you don't aspire to sound like a person coming from a specific geographic area. But anyway, the whole thing it's geared more towards the American pronunciation and that's what I'm probably more passionate about myself personally and that's the road I'm taking anyway. And in today's video we're going to look at much the dreaded English sound, TH, right? TH sound which is the “the”, the voiced version of it, right? TH like in the word “the,” right? “The” and the unvoiced version TH like in the word “thumb”, all right? Biggest Mistake Made by Foreigners – OVERDOING the TH Sound! And this is what a lot of foreigners get wrong when they're trying to use this sound or to pronounce this sound when they speak, right? They try to get it like in a book, right? They tell you that you have to pronounce it this way - you have to place your tongue between your teeth like that. This and these, that and those, this is how the TH goes, right? There's a saying like that. And you guys are probably trying to get it just like in the book when you speak and that's when you start running into an awful lot of problems. And the reason being, in real life I've yet to meet a native English speaker who pronounces these words like that: this and these. Nobody does that. Nobody :!: Because in reality the TH voiced sound TH becomes more like D. It's something like the D sound, right? It's just that it's not really a stressed D. Nobody really says “Dis”, right? Although there are certain native English speakers who say that, who speak that way when they come from specific geographical areas. But anyway, that's beyond our discussion today. Don’t Place Your Tongue BETWEEN the Teeth – It’s WRONG! Suffice it to say that, you just have to place the tip of your tongue behind your teeth. TH. TH. Like that. TH. This. This. This. It's this. It's this. Nobody really says “it's this.” People say “it's this”. It's the 100th video on my YouTube channel. It's the 100th video. Nobody really says “it's the 100th video.” It's the 100th. And speaking of the unvoiced version, the TH, the TH sound as in the word thumb, it becomes T. It's more like T. 100th. For the 100th time. It's my thumb. Thumb, right? Obviously it's not the very same as T. It's not my tumb. It's thumb. It's something between the thumb and tumb, right? Thumb. Thumb. Thumb. Thumb. But it's more closer to the T sound, right? So you've got to be imagining that you're actually pronouncing the word tumb instead of thumb to get it right. And why I said that a lot of foreigners run into problems when they're trying to nail this sound and make it sound textbook like? The reason being, they get it completely wrong. They go overboard, okay? And in relation to this I want you to check out this particular article called “Don't overdo your English pronunciation” - click right here. It's going to take you to my blog where you're go...

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This episode was published on Feb 15, 2016.

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