Hello. I'm Gill at engVid, and today we have
a lesson on the pronunciation of a consonant
sound which is "th", "th", the one that... Where you have to put your tongue touching
your top teeth, here, "th", "th", "th". But
just to mention that the "th" sound consonant
has two different ways of being pronounced.
There's a lighter sound which is "th", "th",
"th", like that, and there's a heavier sound
which is "th", "th", "th" where you use more
of your vocal cords. So, the difference between
these is called "unvoiced" and "voiced". It's
to do with how much you use your vocal cords
which vibrate in your throat. So, for "th",
"th", "th", I'm using my vocal cords a little
bit to get the sound to come out. I'm not
really whispering. I'm not going "th", "th",
"th", "th", which you would hardly hear. I
am making some sound with my vocal cords, "th", "th", "th", but this one, the heavier
one, you use the vocal cords much more, so
"th", "th", "th", and you can get it to vibrate.
If you can do this as an exercise, it's quite
useful. "Th", "th", "th", so you can put your
tongue on your teeth at the top, here, "th", and
you can make a continuous... You're pushing the
air through your throat and out of your mouth
in a continuous sound to get that, you know,
just to practice the right kind of sound for it.
It's a good vocal exercise. Like that. Okay. So,
that's just an exaggerated way of demonstrating
the heavier voiced version of "th". So,
different words have a different way of being
pronounced. This list, here, are the lighter
sound of "th", and this list is the heavier sound. Just some examples. Okay. So, let's
just go through and I'll just pronounce each
word for you. I think most of them will be
quite familiar vocabulary. Okay, so we have
"sing", "thank", "theatre", "thumb", what's the
thumb? "North", "south", "cloth", "tooth", "earth",
"bath", "month". Okay? So, some of the words
begin "th", some words end "th", but they're
all the lighter sound. "Th", "th", "th", like
that. And if... If in your own native language
you don't have this "th" sound, it's something
you need to practice and get used to putting
your tongue in the right position and blowing
the air through your mouth. "Th", "th", "th",
just to get that sound. If it's a sound you
haven't learnt as a child, then you need to practice it and integrate it into your way
of speaking. Okay, so that's the voiced list.
And now we have the heavier sounding list.
Again, a lot of them begin with "th", and then some of them have "th" in the middle
of the word. Okay? So, we have "this", "that",
"these", "those", "then", "their", "though",
"weather", "mother", "father", "brother". Okay,
so they are the heavier sound. "Th", "th", "th".
So, you might want to practice both of these
sounds alternating. "Th", "th", "th", "th",
"the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the",
just getting used to them if you're not used
to making those sounds. Okay, so, well, that's
it really, but what I'm going to do now is
just to read through the lists of words a
little bit more quickly so that I'm not reading
them in an exaggerated way. I'll just read
them in a normal way as anybody would normally
say them in conversation so that you can hear
the more normal, natural way of speaking.
Okay, so here we go. So, "thing", "thank",
"theatre", "thumb", "north", "south", "cloth",
"tooth", "earth", "bath", "month". Okay. And
then this list. "This", "that", "these", "those",
"then", "there", "though", "weather", "mother",
"father", "brother". Okay, so I hope that's
been helpful. So, thank you for watching and
hope to see you again soon. Okay. Bye for now.