hey everybody its Jennifer from Tarle speech welcome back today's question is
how do I pronounce two different words thus which is an adverb which is a more
formal way of saying therefore and dust which is a powdery dirt that can cover
your furniture or it could be the act of taking that dirt away and we could also
dust something while we're baking with powdered sugar or something like that so
there are multiple meanings for that word so I think the confusion with these
two words is going to come from two places the good news is if we have a
nice easy vowel this week the short uh the schwa sound so that's super easy I
guess technically someone's gonna write this in the comment section it's not a
schwa because it's stressed in a single word but it's the short uh sound so the
difference here we're gonna focus on is the first sound the th or and the D and
the ending the s and the S T so let's tackle the th and the D this is a very
common mistake for the th make sure you stick your tongue between your teeth and
do not touch your teeth I had a recent question about this you're not going to
have to do this forever stick the tongue way out of your mouth it's really just
until you get to know the sound but you have to stick it really far out there
once you get good at it with lots of practice you will just stick it out of
your mouth a tiny little bit so let's give that a try and we're gonna voice
that so turn your voice back up voice box on that is going to be different than
the D sound "D" which you're going to be make by
touching your teeth so you typically we make the D sound by touching the tip of
your tongue to the back of your top front teeth but even if you touch it to
the top teeth and just by accident it's going to sound more like a D so make
sure you don't touch your teeth so the difference again is TH vs. D
so when the TH the th sound that air continues you're not touching your teeth
of your tongue and your voice box is on and for the D sound
you're going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front
teeth and the air is just gonna sort of puff out and stop let's look at the
endings now and compare those for thus just gonna keep that air moving for the
S sound the S sound your tongue is in your mouth most of my clients can make
this sound so just be sure that you make the S sound at the end of the word long
enough okay so let's try the first word thus thus alright now to move to the s T
at the end of the word dust what you're going to do is make sure that you say
that S sound SSS and then you're going to quickly touch the back of your top front
teeth for the T dust and then pull your tongue tip down SSST SSST dust so let's try those
two words together thus dust thus dust I didn't clean well last week
thus there was a lot of dust I didn't clean last week thus there was a lot of
dust give it a try I know people are going to notice the
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