hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about consonant diaphragms
consonant diaphragms now for the last few videos we've been talking about
consonants consonants consonants right so that's what we're talking about now
we're finishing up on the consonant digraphs I'm sorry said diaphragm
digraphs digraphs ok we have two consonants that create a new sound when
put together that is the definition of a consonant digraph digraph and we have ch
cha that's a consonant digraph pH but it sounds like hey it sounds like f fuck
fuck like in the word telephone phone SH like shut the door th huh like think
think about it think wh-what-what now w by itself sound like whoa H hook
together it's like white white the color white or could you wait a while while 11
the W and the wh it's not too much different there's not so much difference
T and H tough hook hook hook comes out the thumb there is a difference it's a
new sound right more much more distinctive than that one I can't really
pick that one else be honest with you Sh hush huh the new
sound is quite different than shut right pH very different puh-puh-puh now ha ha
now now fuck fuck very different sound than P and H by themselves CH now see
can sound like a C or K I mean an S or k secret Alexis and s good sonic okay like
in the word cat or cat H pop-up sucks I don't know how about hook up and I don't
know ch the sound is like the word chair perhaps you're sitting in a chair right
now watching this video chuc nu sounds right with these together all right now
let's take a look at some words that we can go over where we use these sounds
all right now we have our five consonant diagrams hi friends Oh digraphs digraphs
CH Chuck Chuck ph huh Oh sh th huh wh-what-what one as i mentioned earlier
wh yeah I don't see where it's such a new sound but anyways one let's look at
these words we've got Chuck EEE is e sounds like ests he
cheese cheese you know what cheese is you get cheese it's a dairy product made
from milk from the house the cream there's a process I love cheese Swiss
cheese that's my favorite Chuck CH e a sounds like e we have put pup Chuck
cheep cheep cheep something that is not expensive it doesn't cost much money now
to buy something that's cheap it doesn't cost much money a person who is cheap
means they don't want to spend money you're a cheap person a tightwad be the
tight one now I don't think so ch cha cha you are her our old friend the earth
sound and another look at this look at this another CH okay Chuck Burch Burch
church church just an air sound at the end right church ok what's the church a
church is a religious establishment of a building made and owned by a religious
organization where people go to worship together right they pray to however they
believe in a higher being right church we have ph 550 the long oh and toe toe
photo a photo take a picture of something and we say you have a photo of
it maybe you have a photo album you have photos on Facebook we call them images
now to graph gr Greg run at half short a foot the f sell a graph
okay a graph could be if you go look at the stock market you buy stocks in the
price of those stocks go up and down well you're looking at a star chart you
could say it is a graph of how that stock is doing there are many kinds of
grass now if you put these two words together what do we have we have a
photograph which is really the correct word for photo photo is just a short way
of saying photograph telephone t tetas alll ah quella ah p h4 phone telephone
now most people just say a phone hello I'd like to talk to you on my phone the
real word should be califone there's also a telegraph you ever heard of
Telegraph's well they were out before telephones work Telegraph's sh IP it
short I get it ship okay you may get on a very large boat and they call it a
ship perhaps your Navy has many many shifts in it or you want to ship
something a package to a friend of yours you send it we say you're shipping it
you sending it sh 00 long o our Shore I mean or shore shore where the water a
lake and ocean the river meets the land we call that the shore ashore sh 0 short
oh ha shopping shopping I think you know this word do you like to go shopping you
go to the store and you look for things to buy you buy things well you are
shopping right th 80 we know that's at without that teeth
it'd be hat you are a hat on your head look at that that look at that thing'll
over there look at that car it's beautiful look at that if it's close to
you near like this this is my marker take a marker away I'd say that is my
marker if it's far away the fact that this these those vah then van thorn
th-the or so r or mmm and salad thorn what's a thorn well maybe you have some
rose bushes with the beautiful rose the flour on them and there are little two
things that stick you they hurt when you touch the skin those are thorns thorns a
board wh-what what apt but it doesn't really sound it sounds like ott when we
say it the word is our utt the word is what what what did you say what is that
over there what what what is soap a whistle whistle a whipped soul you're
blowing a whistle a policeman may have a whistle to blow on when they're
directing traffic or maybe you can whistle king whistle I can whistle yeah
I'm a little out of practice where what what air this sounds like air member in
previous videos we looked at this sound and sometimes it sounds like ear
sometimes it sounds like air well here it sounds like hair we're right if we
took off the w we have word here like please come here put on
the double you know it's where air English that concludes this lesson thank
you for watching and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson goodbye
for now