Hello, my name is Sarah. I'm the speech pathologist at Voice Science, Melbourne's premier accent
consulting and voice training centre located on Collins St.
In today's episode, I really want to talk you through
a sound that is causing everyone a lot of confusion
The /g/ sound. Now, this sound is not necessarily
very difficult to produce. Let's have a go now.
Pop your hands on your voice, it is a voiced sound:
"/g/, /g/", the partner sound of which is "/k/, /k/"
as in cat.
Now, the /g/ sound is most often confused with another
sound- /dʒ/
and the reason for this is that the letter G
often matches for the sound /g/. Confusing?
Ok, so let's get ready for a very quick drill of 15 /g/
words. Please take extra care that your voice is vibrating
as it should be, particularly in the middle and the
end of words: "/g/, /g/".
Just check what that feels like,
otherwise we will get "LECK" for "LEG"
and "BACK" for "BAG."
Good luck, and have fun!
TOGETHER: We are not together.
LEG: I have a sore leg.
AGAIN: Let's do it again.
DOG: I have one dog, his name is Guiseppe.
HUG: I love to hug my dog.
BAG: Did you put it in your handbag?
EGG: Oh my, that is a huge dinosaur egg.
JUG: Would you like a jug of water?
JOG: In the mornings, I really like to jog
(provided it's not too cold).
TIGER: Did you ever see a Siberian tiger?
MANGO: I am not to be trusted near a box of mangoes.
AGREE: Can we please just agree to disagree?
AGO: I used to live in Germany a long time ago.
MUG: Where's my favourite coffee mug?
GHERKIN: gHerkin! No, just joking.
Take care of this one.
"gHerkin" is not a word.
We just join the "G" and the "H" together
and it makes a simple /g/.
Gherkin. There's no gherkins in my burger.
GUESS: Well, I guess that's about it.
This wraps up our fourth Vlog for YouTube.
We've just looked at the /g/ sound.
Next week I'm going to give you some info on the sound
that we commonly can confuse /g/ with,
/dʒ/ as in /dʒ/ for "jeans".
Very important!
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If you have any questions don't hesitate to email me.
Looking forward to hearing to any questions
or comments you might have.
Have a great week, Ciao!