🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓You can start with the article about the /ð/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_voiced_th_as_in_this

You make simple, difficult things. Best way to illustrate the combination of the toungue and air flux.

Thank you so much for your contribution to the English learning community.

I feel that I am improving with this sound and the other unvoiced one... The problem is that I don't know if I pronounce them correctly, but I keep practicing, following the way you pronounce them. Even though I have some insecurity with English sounds, I keep practicing them until I can pronounce them. These videos are good, since not only do you speak slowly (I use the subtitles in my language to follow along, as I can't understand many things and your slow speech allows me to read and follow the video at the same time), but the pronunciation of the sounds is detailed as well. Thank you for making them available to us, English language learners.

Love you guys! Thank you for your work and help!

Thank you for this lesson!

i have been searching for this for long time .thank you so much!

I really appreciate your work! For the Ukrainians both consonant sounds /ð/ and /θ/ are quite difficult to pronounce. It is often heard /z/ and /s/ instead of these sounds. Your videos are extremely helpful. After practicing my pronunciation is becoming better and more natural. Thanks a lot!!!

I have pronunced Th , thanks Sounds American , Your Channel so useful

These videos are very good, they communicate the subject well. that wave, I did not have them before to learn. Thasnk for post.

awesome!!! super!!!! now I can finally say it correctly!!! I cannot thank you enough! these videos showing the position of the tongue, and mentioning if it's voiceless, or with vocal cords being involved, it's the best in learning phonics, and speaking almost like a native. it's great!

Thank You. I think this is the best video for me to learn the ‘TH’ Sound.🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿.

I love this serious of video that shows us how to pronounce right vowels and consonants.thank you for your effort.you're so great

Esse video é incrível...não vi nada igual....profissionalismo....criatividade.! As veses me sinto incapaz por não fazer o som adequado....vou repetir quantas vezes for necessário...antes desse vídeo pensei em procurar uma Fonodiologo ....Agradecida vou seguir voce e compartilhar seu video....

Thank you! Your videos are so good and help me a lot of.

Thanks to everyone who participated in *this WORDS HUNTING CONTEST #2!* The task was to find the longest words with the voiced /ð/ sound. Here’re the top five submitted entries: 1. otherworldliness 16 letters 2. weatherproofness 16 letters 3. brotherlessness - 15 letters 4. brothers-in-law 15 letters 5. thenceforwards 14 letters We must admit, that we even learned some new words :). The two longest words are: *otherworldliness* and *weatherproofness*. Both words contain 16 letters, but the word *otherworldliness* was submitted 2 hours earlier. It means, that the prize goes to *our winner Hendra Polover!* Congratulations, Hendra!

thank you very much for these excellent videos

Great explanation.Thank you.

Thanks a lot. After practicing with your videos, now I can see the change in pronunciation. Thanks again.

Super helpful, thanks

Thank you for the lesson

I’ve been in Egypt for a year now, studying Arabic, and improving my English, which I started learning in the fifth grade in 1975. I am now 61 years old.

Hello techer, I have been practising TH since You told me. Today my teacher said to me wow You improved TH. this is why thanks, And everyday I practice a lot for pronounciation

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Thank you very much. I can inhibit my inertia of English after seeing these videos and following the rules 👍👍

I never thought that I've been doing it wrong. Thanks to this channel ❤️🇵🇭

Keep up your wonderful work!

Thank​ you!

This is the best vid for learning the ð sound ever👍

Thank you very much. So lovely get to know your channel!!

Thanks so much for doing this. I have been working in T-mobile's customer care call center and their customers are rude with people's bad pronunciation so I started to watch your videos and now They can understand me more 😂🤙🏻🤙🏻

this help me A LOT! thanks!!

Great video! I just can't stop watching your all videos. Thank you so much. However, I am sorry that there is no video explaining consonant blends like pr- str-. Would you post a video describing how to pronounce consonant blends?

Thanks for your lecturer. It's so interesting :)

Thank you so much. I have always hated this sound because I had trouble pronouncing it. I speak Russian, so for me it is something between "з", "ф" and "в", I cannot connect them. But after this video I finally understood how to pronounce it and I even almost succeeded. Ok, I need more practice 😅

amazing video for / ð / sound.

It's really great! Thanks :)

I just can't stop watching your all videos..

*WORDS HUNTING CONTEST #2 IS NOW OPEN* WANTED: *the longest* English word with the consonant sound /ð/. REWARD: $25 Amazon gift card. Hello there, fellow American Accent learners! In this contest you’ll have to *find the longest English word with the consonant sound /ð/*. All you have to do is to post word(s) you’ve found as comments to this video. The winner will receive a *$25* Amazon gift card. *TIPS:* · The voiced consonant /ð/ is always represented by the combination of letters ‘th’. · ‘th’ sounds as the /ð/ at the beginning of function words, e.g. “this” (4 letters long). The function words are mostly (but not always) short. · ‘th’ is also pronounced as the /ð/ between vowels, e.g. “smoothing” (9 letters long). *RULES:* · Any word with the consonant sound /ð/ will be a valid contest entry · The longest word of all will be the winner · The entries will be accepted as comments *to this video only* · If two or more words of the same length are submitted, the earliest submitted entry will win · The contest ends at 12pm (PST), Thursday, December 15th, 2016. · One word = one entry, please.

thanks a lot!!

Great channel, thank you so much :)

This is especially hard when you have an overbite and a small tongue😭

i finally can pronounce this consonant after years. thank you so much 🙏🏻

Thanks teacher

Good lesson

Thanks a lot

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Thanks 😊

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I love this channel so much 😍

So brilliant as usual! I am Arabic that is why I find easy to learn because we have that sound. ذ 'th'e

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P-E-R-F-E-C-T !

what a great video !! Keep going :))))

A great video. I'd like to ask you about how to pronounce this sound (voiced interdental) in connected speech. It's tricky.

Very Good!

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tks so much! :))

Thanks for sharing this video. I am happy to know that ‘th’ in word ‘smooth’ is voiced sound because ‘th’ is mostly voiceless at the end of the word, like North. Are there any other English words like smooth, e. g. ‘th’ is voiced sound at the end of the word?

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Well explained

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nice!

In albania we have “dh” which is pronounced excatly like this.It sound like th(which also is a letter in albanian) but just a bit different.

thanks you

informative!

Thanks

Thanks for your channel. It is difficult to pronounce word: Choir; Jewel, Jaguar, Coward and until video 14, definetively for me, query!

Thank to you, I made it!!

it difficult to pronounce smoothly. especially this part.

Your videos are awesome, I think my pronunciation is better now. A tip, try to learn one phoneme a day, trying to learn more than one is a lot for our minds since is something new for us.

Interesting is ðæt I þought ðis sound was only present in iceladic and in feroese. Example: Dansið- Dance

Longest words with voiced th sound are weatherproof, Brother-in-law, Brothers-in-law, thenceforth.

code for the letter ð CTRL+SHIFT+U = underlined u underlined u + 00f0 = u00f0, press enter, ð

This sound is one of the hardest sounds I've ever had to master. It's been three months and still I'm not satisfied. Thank God, I have T and D sounds in my native language. I hear people from romance language family pronounce it as dental stop. Sounds funny to me. Though, I have these dental stops in my language.

I came here to research and fill about danish /ð/ sound. 🇩🇰🇬🇧

nice post...

your completely right.. I went back and practice th sound :( so hard to latin people

one more: weatherproofness

We really love this channel. But we don't know how to record our pronunciations and compare with the speaker. Pls introduce us some apps or how to do that. Thanks so much.

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It would be great if you could make a comparison video between /d/ and /ð/ sounds. I'm a spanish native speaker, and it's really hard for me to hear the difference between those sounds. I think that I can make the sounds, but hearing the difference in a sentence is really difficult for me.

Awesome stuff, Sounds American! Keep going! Practical question now - I have a friend who is suffering to pronounce th sound this morning after number of B52 cocktails last night. Looks like a common mistake :) any hints how to address it? :)

ð as bárðarbunga (a volcano in iceland)

I'm a German native speaker. We don't have this sound. This one is definitely the most difficult one haha. I hope I will be able to pronounce it right soon

Hello Sounds American Channel! I prefer to include the IPA forms of the words in my own vocabulary-list and I use US version of Cambridge Dictionary but I've noticed some of the words are written differently comparing with your videos. E.G. there (in Cambridge Dictionary it is /ðeər/ and in your video it is /ðɛr/). So my question is what do you use as a source. Thanks and Greetings from Turkey!

This sound makes my surname hard to say for lots of people!

hello. what book would you recommend me to study American Phonetics? thanks

Do you have any android apps that we could practice with? It is an awesome channel.

When saying "and thus", do we connect the two words and pronounce just the "d" in "and" instead of pronouncing both "d" + "th"?

Hello SoundsAmerican! I have a few questions concerning the phone [ð] since I have been struggling with this sound for soooo long. And I also teach English to someone else, so it's really important for me to know the answer. Disclaimer: I really tried to look for the answers on the internet, but there is a huge mess in the sources and information available, many sources claim something different (plus I really prefer to ask someone American about this because I focus on American English). 1) In your video, there is clearly stated that you are supposed to make the sound with your tongue in between the teeth, just slightly touching the upper teeth, letting the air through just a bit in order to make that "hdhzz" sound. But to be honest, it seems to me that many native speakers do not even make the "zz" sound in the phone. And I am not talking about the Irish or some parts of Chicago - when I am watching an American movie, I mostly do not even hear the "zz" part of the sound in the speech of the actors. To me, the phone [ð] sounds very often like [d], especially when the actor is speaking quickly. As if natives stopped the flow of air with their tongue instead of letting it through. => Is it really that common for Americans to pronounce [ð] that clearly, making even the "zz" sound in the process? Or is it just a textbook ideal that most people do not adhere to? 2) The clear distinction comes when I am watching some British actors - to me, it seems that [ð] is much more carefully pronounced in the UK. Is it just a feeling of mine, or is it true? 3) The last question is connected to the related phone [θ]. If there is some Spanish speaker reading this, I would appreciate any help in this. - In the IPA transcription of many Spanish-English dictionaries, the European, peninsular Spanish contains this sound [θ] in many words. But when I am listening to some English-speaking people pronounce the sound [θ] in their English words (think, thing, thanks, through, etc), I hear the phone [θ] often a bit differently, sounding less s-like and more like going into [f]. => Can I really use the same sound the European Spanish uses or not when speaking English? Thank you very much for your answers! :)

March 22, 2020

I wonder if native speakers pronounce "/ð/ sound"as a letter" d" when they make long fast sentence or not ?

I have a quick question: the sound is like a T with the tongue in between the lips?

Can you address the difference between ð and þ

Hi there.. Thank you for the good work you have done over the year. I have a problem with the word "WITH". It has the final sound " ð" but for me it seems like the "θ". Please help me

Подскажите, в предложениях , где that можно опускать например I know that you love me , американцы как-то не понятно его произносят, кто-то знает как ?

GUYS I FINALLY MADE THIS SOUND