🎉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 /d/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_d_as_in_dog
I think that every consonants in particular are pronounced differently by Americans !! And the "d" consonant was preddy helpfual thanks " glad I came across this channel
thank you very much .. As I've always mispronounced the letter ''d'' and sounded like letter ''z'' .. and I had no idea why that was happening with me .. now, I know it was because my tongue position . how I positioned my tongue in my mouth to pronounce the letter.. a small change made a huge difference . good to learn from your mistakes and correct yourself .. thank you again for these awesome videos . I can't thank you enough!
+Hoàn Nguyễn thank you, we wish you all the best too! We don't have Vietnamese subtitles for all videos yet, but we're working on having them translated. Let us know if you have any questions! 👋
I would be so happy if you make it to the whole new level of intonations in sentences and how the rules like the final stop rule may change due to word to word connection in phrases
This is a work in progress. We cannot give you precise dates, but stay tuned for the "American rhythm and intonation" articles and videos on Sounds American 😉
Hello, so can i conclude this video like this 1. if after the /d/ is a vowel then /d/ will be aspirated 2. if after the /d/ is a consonant or nothing, the /d/ wont be aspirated Is that true? I wonder because if the /d/ at the end of some words are not aspirated, then how could we make linking sound between two words such as "demand on" which I often hear " di maen don". Thank you so much
Excellent video! I loved it! I have a question. Do the past verbs end in D sound the same like these words here? I mean if the regular past verbs their end sound D is not aspirated like these words in this video?
Thank you for these awesome videos. They are very helpful. One question, I feel that the unaspirated stops are sort of an unreleased sound, am I right?
There's a million of other things we can include in other videos, but we focus only on the most important stuff that helps people improve their pronunciation. 👋
Can you use the blade of your tongue? Can you make these sounds D T N with your tongue tip down and the blade or middle part of your tongue touching the ridge? Where exactly is the ridge located tho?
@@SoundsAmerican what do you mean by that? you can make sounds but you will mispronounce them so that it won't sound natural? where exactly is the tongue tip tho?
Hello Mister! I wonder if we can stop the d sound when it comes with n like find? And as well as /lt/ like felt, /mp/ like jump? I know we have six stop sounds /bp dt gk/ but I don't know wheather or not they can be stopped if a consonant comes before them.
Hello there! Great question! When you have a stop sound in a word, you always stop the air. However, you need to watch out for the aspiration (a puff of air) that you release after stopping the air. The general rule that we tell our students is that when you have two consonants following each other, make a puff of air on the second. With the /nd/ cluster, we make a small puff on the /d/. It helps to differentiate between words like "fine" and "find." If you don't release the /d/ at all, then the word "find" can be confused with "fine." Same goes for the /lt/ and /mp/ clusters, though sometimes in conversations the final /t/ is not released as it merges with the following consonants. Hope this helps!
AMAZING VIDEOS.I learn a lot from these. But i have some questions. 1.When do /g/ and /b/ become unvoiced? 2.Except /b/,/d/and/g/, do other voiced consonants always need to be voiced in the word or in the sentence? ps:There are almost no voiced consonants in my mother language, so I am confused about the voiced consonants. Although I may know how to pronounce the voiced consonants, it feels unnatural to speak if every voiced consonant needs to be voiced in the sentences(In my mother language, b,d and g are not be voiced，but sounds like the prounciation when /p/，/t/，/k/ follow /s/). So is it because of my lack of practice and inaccurate pronunciation?
Hello there! Thank you for your feedback, glad to hear you like our videos and that they're helpful! You asked excellent questions. Here's a short answer: voiced consonant sounds are always voiced, they don't change to unvoiced ones, but most have unvoiced counterparts. However, some consonant letters can represent both voiced and unvoiced sounds. And here's a long answer. First of all, let's make sure we're talking about the same things: in our videos and other content, when we write /b/, /d/, or /g/, we're talking about sounds, as opposed to letters. The sounds are written in between the slashes in our videos and other content: /d/. The letters are in quotes: 'D'. We do this to make it a little easier for our audience to distinguish between them. In English, almost all letters can represent several different sounds, and this includes consonant letters. For example, the letter 'D' in the word "do" represents the /d/ sound. However, the same letter 'D' represents the /t/ sound in the word "worked." (For more detail, check out our post on this: ua-cam.com/users/postUgwynkU7SEaGQXVItRl4AaABCQ.) Now, about the voiced and unvoiced/voiceless sounds. The sounds /b/and /g/ are always voiced. They are never unvoiced. The letters 'B' and 'G' never represent unvoiced sounds; they always represent voiced sounds /b/ and /g/, respectively. About other voiced consonants: if we're talking about sounds - voiced sounds are always voiced. They don't become unvoiced. Most voiced sounds in English have voiceless counterparts, for example, /b/ - /p/, /d/ - /t/, /θ/ - /ð/, etc. So if you see a voiced sound in a word, you need to voice it. One important note - in English, you may not always know what sounds are represented by letters, so make sure to check transcription for unfamiliar words in a good dictionary. Regarding the unnatural feeling - yes, most likely it's because you just need more practice. BTW, what's your native language? Sorry for the long answer, and hope it helps!
@@SoundsAmerican Thanks for your answer! I am a Chinese, I think my native language is cantonese although Mandarin is the official language in china（my mandarin pronunciation is not right enough).
@@SoundsAmerican Excuse me,one more question. People say that English is the language spoken in the back of the mouth.So are they talking about the same thing ''spoken in the back of the mouth'' and the ''pronunciation position''（i do not know how to describe it in English)? FOR example，/i/ is a front vowel， the prounciation position is at the front of mouth.So are this front prounciation position and ''the spoken in the back of the mouth'' conceptually the same kind of thing？Or just be of two different concept? ps:sorry, my Engish is poor. so i can't describe it accurately in English.Hope you get it.
Not sure what is meant by "English is spoken in the back of the mouth" exactly. It doesn't seem right to generalize the American English dialect this way. There are 48 (or 49 depending on how you count them ) sounds and they are pronounced in different ways. There are four back vowel sounds in American English: /u/, /ʊ/, /oʊ/, and /ɔ/. Some people don't have /ɔ/ in their dialect, so for them, it's the /ɑ/ sound. These sounds are pronounced with the tongue pulled far back in the mouth. Several consonant sounds are pronounced with the back of the tongue pressed against the soft palate: /k/, /g/, and /ŋ/. There are no other sounds that are pronounced in the back of the mouth... Hope it helps!
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The /T/ and /d/ is aspirated at the beginning of words and stressed syllables, such as task desk attack address. The /t/ and /d/ is unaspirated at the end of words and unstressed syllables, such as bet bed after daddy. (Allophone) Is it right or wrong?
In this video, we're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
+ROBERTO ROMAN , we don't have this video and won't able to make it overnight, but here's a video on this topic from Rachel's English: ua-cam.com/video/uOG-4ZjR7ic/v-deo.html Hope it helps!
Hello Sounds American. I really really need your help on this matter. when a word ending in /nd/ links into a word that begins with a consonant sound. I can't hear the /d/ sound at all. Feel like just the /n/ links smoothly to the beginning consonant sound of the following word such as: Please stand back, a big weekend party . is the /d/ deleted, (I've been asking a lot of questions since i found your channel on youtube and I always get the right answers. That helps me a lot). Thanks and 1 billion likes!
+Son Hoangduc There are two ways that the /d/ could be pronounced in this position in words. It's usually made with a slight puff of air, especially in single words. But it also can be unaspirated, especially in conversation, as it falls at the end of the word. This is an example of the final stop rule. (ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html) It sounds like an /n/ instead of a /d/ in the word "stand" because the /n/ is made in the exact same place as the /d/ - you place your tongue on the alveolar ridge behind your upper teeth for both sounds, so it's an easy sound to reduce in this position. So in conversation, it's okay to just make an /n/ and pronounced an unaspirated /d/ at the end of those words. If you say the word by itself you'll want to make a slight puff of air to pronounce the /d/. Hope this helps!
Nope, these words differ by their final sounds. The word "cart" ends with a voiceless /t/ sound (check out our video, it may be helpful: ua-cam.com/video/mLlotV_0dR/v-deo.html ), but the word "card" ends with the voiced /d/ sound. They are made almost the same way. The only difference is that you need to add your voice when pronouncing the /d/ sound. Hope this helps!
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I have a request! . Could you please discuss more what you meant by '' the letter at the end of the word is not aspirated '' . Did you mean not pronounced ( I don't think so! ) , Sometimes I don't hear you saying the letter at the end of the word though .. thank you!
@@nadineahmed2672 There's no air pushed out. But the letter is clearly noticeable due to the sudden stop of air as you put the tip of your tongue against the alveolar ridge not releasing the slightest amount of air, also the tongue hits the alveolar rigde relatively hardly so that you can hear the impact sound, it's what you hear like when you slightly slap your face. Do it as you would do you when the letter is at the beginning, but don't release any air when it's at the end. I hope this helps. If you're coming from an Arabic background it can be slightly tricky as many Arabic speaking people think that this letter is the same as the Arabic دال which is not true and you can notice their mistake when they pronounce words like Door, Dumb, Dark with the Arabic دال.
@@proudg9026 thank you for replying. yes, Arabic is my mother tongue. I didn't get the part when said that the letter "d" is not the same as the Arabic letter "dal". could you please elaborate more on that as I've always thought that both letters are equivalent to each other. I would appreciate if you point out the difference between the two letters. thanks.
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We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
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I wonder why we have aspirated and unaspirated /d/ here, the chart I used just distinguish /t/ /p/ /k/ (voicedless consonents) as aspirated and unaspirated
+Akira Fu , Both voiced, and voiceless stop consonants are aspirated at the beginning of words and syllables.The aspiration is stronger for the voiceless sounds, so it's just more noticeable. If you want to check it, just pronounce the word "dog," reverse it and say it again. 😊 See the difference?Some non-native speakers involuntarily devoice the voiced stops at the end of words and turn the /b/, the /d/, and the /g/ sounds into the /p/, /t/, and the /k/. So, teachers focus more on pointing out the importance of voicing them correctly. Aspiration is the lesser evil of those two mistakes 😊.BTW, the final stop rule which means that the stops at the end of words and syllables are not aspirated applies to voiced stops as well.
"The aspiration is stronger for the voiceless sounds, so it's just more noticeable. If you want to check it, just pronounce the word "dog," reverse it and say it again." Here I am not quite sure what you mean because /d/ and /g/ are both voiced sound.
+Akira Fu, somehow a bug in the UA-cam comments cut a sentence ((. What we meant was, it's easier to notice aspiration of the voiceless stops, however, the voiced stop consonants are aspirated too. And the aspiration of the initial voiced stops is stronger. There's a trick that helps notice the aspiration of the voiced stops: pronounce "dog," reverse this word and pronounce again.
+macro Rus , Hello there! Again, excellent question! And, as it often happens, there's no a simple answer 😊. First, we're having a hard time coming up with a sentence with "mind you." We can think of one with "remind you" but not "mind you." But it doesn't matter, as this process of pronouncing the /d/ as /dʒ/ happens in general when a verb form links with "you," for example, "did you" or "should you." -). Secondly, it depends on how quickly this phrase is pronounced and if the stress within the sentence is shifted to either of those words. If it's said more slowly and/or if either or both of those two words are the least bit emphasized then it is less palatalized (pronounced as /dʒ/ ) or not at all. If it's in connected, fast conversational speech then we would palatalize them (pronounce as /dʒ/). Hope it helps!
Sorry, not sure we understood what you were looking for in the word "dog." In the titles for our videos, we use the most common words as examples so that people could understand better which sound we're going to talk about. The word "dog" starts with the /d/ sound, that's why we use it. And that's also why we didn't include it in the exercise, just to avoid repetition.
🎉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 /d/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_d_as_in_dog
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Excellent job, those images of the mouth position make all the difference when understanding how to say the words.
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I think that every consonants in particular are pronounced differently by Americans !! And the "d" consonant was preddy helpfual thanks " glad I came across this channel
We're glad you did!
Thank you very much for these videos, very helpful. Please keep doing this.
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thank you very much .. As I've always mispronounced the letter ''d'' and sounded like letter ''z'' .. and I had no idea why that was happening with me .. now, I know it was because my tongue position . how I positioned my tongue in my mouth to pronounce the letter.. a small change made a huge difference . good to learn from your mistakes and correct yourself .. thank you again for these awesome videos . I can't thank you enough!
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really helpful video, thank you very much
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Sounds American I feel so happy and I'm very surprised that you have Vietnamese subtitle
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Awesome !!!!! I was looking for the same tutorial. Keep it up.
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I would be so happy if you make it to the whole new level of intonations in sentences and how the rules like the final stop rule may change due to word to word connection in phrases
This is a work in progress. We cannot give you precise dates, but stay tuned for the "American rhythm and intonation" articles and videos on Sounds American 😉
I love all this lessons
Glad to hear that! We also have a lot of pronunciation content and exercises on our website, check it out: soundsamerican.net/
Thank you so much. This makes me better in english. :) thank you again.
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Hello, so can i conclude this video like this
1. if after the /d/ is a vowel then /d/ will be aspirated
2. if after the /d/ is a consonant or nothing, the /d/ wont be aspirated
Is that true? I wonder because if the /d/ at the end of some words are not aspirated, then how could we make linking sound between two words such as "demand on" which I often hear " di maen don".
Thank you so much
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You're welcome 😊
Thank you! Also interesting how to pronounce properly 'dr', like 'drink'.
You have the best video congrats
Thank you! 😃
Amazing video.
Excellent video! I loved it! I have a question. Do the past verbs end in D sound the same like these words here? I mean if the regular past verbs their end sound D is not aspirated like these words in this video?
Why is the second d aspirated in the word "decided"(7:04)? It doesn`t start the word or a stressed syllable.
Thanxxxxx alooooot for such a nice video . Kindly make one on compound words like Goodbye n Good Morning etc too
+Mr Asif, you're welcome! Do you mean blending sounds? Good suggestion, thank you. We'll cover that too in our future videos.
Awesome video. Thank you!
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Thank you for these awesome videos. They are very helpful. One question, I feel that the unaspirated stops are sort of an unreleased sound, am I right?
If by "unreleased" you mean stops pronounced without no audible release, then yes, correct.
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That was awesome! More examples of words with "D" would be appreciated;)
is it possible to show how to read tr and dr? it is very difficult for me to pronounce them.
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How to pronance dry or dryer thank you for your help
Hello there, it's /draɪ/ and /draɪr/.
So could you tell me how to diferentiate t and d and the end of the word.
They're differentiated by the length of a vowel before them: ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html
I really have would liked if you used axillaries for this exercise: Do, does, did, done, and their real pronunciation.
There's a million of other things we can include in other videos, but we focus only on the most important stuff that helps people improve their pronunciation. 👋
Thank you.
*Great video*
Glad you liked it!
thank you!
+Ariane Silva, you're welcome!
Can you use the blade of your tongue? Can you make these sounds D T N with your tongue tip down and the blade or middle part of your tongue touching the ridge? Where exactly is the ridge located tho?
You can, but this will be what we call "mispronunciation" 😉
@@SoundsAmerican what do you mean by that? you can make sounds but you will mispronounce them so that it won't sound natural? where exactly is the tongue tip tho?
@@SoundsAmerican and where exactly is the ridge?
are you gonna have an app?
Hello Mister! I wonder if we can stop the d sound when it comes with n like find? And as well as /lt/ like felt, /mp/ like jump? I know we have six stop sounds /bp dt gk/ but I don't know wheather or not they can be stopped if a consonant comes before them.
Hello there! Great question!
When you have a stop sound in a word, you always stop the air. However, you need to watch out for the aspiration (a puff of air) that you release after stopping the air.
The general rule that we tell our students is that when you have two consonants following each other, make a puff of air on the second.
With the /nd/ cluster, we make a small puff on the /d/. It helps to differentiate between words like "fine" and "find." If you don't release the /d/ at all, then the word "find" can be confused with "fine."
Same goes for the /lt/ and /mp/ clusters, though sometimes in conversations the final /t/ is not released as it merges with the following consonants.
Hope this helps!
@@SoundsAmerican thank you so much!
np! Let us know if you have any other questions. 🤗
@@SoundsAmerican you're such a kind person. I've been learning a lot from you channel!!!!
AMAZING VIDEOS.I learn a lot from these.
But i have some questions. 1.When do /g/ and /b/ become unvoiced? 2.Except /b/,/d/and/g/, do other voiced consonants always need to be voiced in the word or in the sentence? ps:There are almost no voiced consonants in my mother language, so I am confused about the voiced consonants. Although I may know how to pronounce the voiced consonants, it feels unnatural to speak if every voiced consonant needs to be voiced in the sentences(In my mother language, b,d and g are not be voiced，but sounds like the prounciation when /p/，/t/，/k/ follow /s/). So is it because of my lack of practice and inaccurate pronunciation?
Hello there! Thank you for your feedback, glad to hear you like our videos and that they're helpful!
You asked excellent questions. Here's a short answer: voiced consonant sounds are always voiced, they don't change to unvoiced ones, but most have unvoiced counterparts. However, some consonant letters can represent both voiced and unvoiced sounds.
And here's a long answer.
First of all, let's make sure we're talking about the same things: in our videos and other content, when we write /b/, /d/, or /g/, we're talking about sounds, as opposed to letters. The sounds are written in between the slashes in our videos and other content: /d/. The letters are in quotes: 'D'. We do this to make it a little easier for our audience to distinguish between them.
In English, almost all letters can represent several different sounds, and this includes consonant letters. For example, the letter 'D' in the word "do" represents the /d/ sound. However, the same letter 'D' represents the /t/ sound in the word "worked." (For more detail, check out our post on this: ua-cam.com/users/postUgwynkU7SEaGQXVItRl4AaABCQ.)
Now, about the voiced and unvoiced/voiceless sounds. The sounds /b/and /g/ are always voiced. They are never unvoiced.
The letters 'B' and 'G' never represent unvoiced sounds; they always represent voiced sounds /b/ and /g/, respectively.
About other voiced consonants: if we're talking about sounds - voiced sounds are always voiced. They don't become unvoiced. Most voiced sounds in English have voiceless counterparts, for example, /b/ - /p/, /d/ - /t/, /θ/ - /ð/, etc. So if you see a voiced sound in a word, you need to voice it. One important note - in English, you may not always know what sounds are represented by letters, so make sure to check transcription for unfamiliar words in a good dictionary.
Regarding the unnatural feeling - yes, most likely it's because you just need more practice. BTW, what's your native language?
Sorry for the long answer, and hope it helps!
@@SoundsAmerican Thanks for your answer! I am a Chinese, I think my native language is cantonese although Mandarin is the official language in china（my mandarin pronunciation is not right enough).
@@SoundsAmerican Excuse me,one more question.
People say that English is the language spoken in the back of the mouth.So are they talking about the same thing ''spoken in the back of the mouth'' and the ''pronunciation position''（i do not know how to describe it in English)?
FOR example，/i/ is a front vowel， the prounciation position is at the front of mouth.So are this front prounciation position and ''the spoken in the back of the mouth'' conceptually the same kind of thing？Or just be of two different concept?
ps:sorry, my Engish is poor. so i can't describe it accurately in English.Hope you get it.
Not sure what is meant by "English is spoken in the back of the mouth" exactly. It doesn't seem right to generalize the American English dialect this way. There are 48 (or 49 depending on how you count them ) sounds and they are pronounced in different ways.
There are four back vowel sounds in American English: /u/, /ʊ/, /oʊ/, and /ɔ/. Some people don't have /ɔ/ in their dialect, so for them, it's the /ɑ/ sound. These sounds are pronounced with the tongue pulled far back in the mouth.
Several consonant sounds are pronounced with the back of the tongue pressed against the soft palate: /k/, /g/, and /ŋ/.
There are no other sounds that are pronounced in the back of the mouth...
Hope it helps!
@@SoundsAmerican Thank you for your answering.
I really love all the videos. Is there an Android App available ?
+Ramesh muthiah , thank you, glad to hear that! We're using our own app, but we haven't released publicly yet. We hope to be able to do it soon, it'll be announced on this channel. Please, stay tuned!😁👋
@@SoundsAmerican any news?
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The /T/ and /d/ is aspirated at the beginning of words and stressed syllables, such as task desk attack address. The /t/ and /d/ is unaspirated at the end of words and unstressed syllables, such as bet bed after daddy. (Allophone) Is it right or wrong?
On gg translation still pronounce /d/ at the end ??
Hi, was that a presentation or a phonetics software?
In this video, we're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
What is the differences between /d/ and flap /t/?
The flap 'T' is "quicker," it's like a very quick tap.
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Outstanding is the video
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Que aplicación es ?
I need sound of H please!
+ROBERTO ROMAN , yes, we plan to make a video for that sound too. Thank you for your suggestion!
Sounds American I need that sound for this weekend . saludos desde Colombia
+ROBERTO ROMAN , we don't have this video and won't able to make it overnight, but here's a video on this topic from Rachel's English: ua-cam.com/video/uOG-4ZjR7ic/v-deo.html
Hope it helps!
The video is great
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Hello Sounds American. I really really need your help on this matter. when a word ending in /nd/ links into a word that begins with a consonant sound. I can't hear the /d/ sound at all. Feel like just the /n/ links smoothly to the beginning consonant sound of the following word such as: Please stand back, a big weekend party . is the /d/ deleted, (I've been asking a lot of questions since i found your channel on youtube and I always get the right answers. That helps me a lot). Thanks and 1 billion likes!
+Son Hoangduc
There are two ways that the /d/ could be pronounced in this position in words.
It's usually made with a slight puff of air, especially in single words.
But it also can be unaspirated, especially in conversation, as it falls at the end of the word. This is an example of the final stop rule. (ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html)
It sounds like an /n/ instead of a /d/ in the word "stand" because the /n/ is made in the exact same place as the /d/ - you place your tongue on the alveolar ridge behind your upper teeth for both sounds, so it's an easy sound to reduce in this position.
So in conversation, it's okay to just make an /n/ and pronounced an unaspirated /d/ at the end of those words. If you say the word by itself you'll want to make a slight puff of air to pronounce the /d/.
Hope this helps!
No video on youtube anymore ?
There will be, stay tuned! In the meanwhile, we publish a lot of useful pronunciation info on our website: soundsamerican.net/
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Thank you!!
Are cart and card are pronounced the same? 🤔
Nope, these words differ by their final sounds. The word "cart" ends with a voiceless /t/ sound (check out our video, it may be helpful: ua-cam.com/video/mLlotV_0dR/v-deo.html ), but the word "card" ends with the voiced /d/ sound. They are made almost the same way. The only difference is that you need to add your voice when pronouncing the /d/ sound.
Hope this helps!
I like this video
awesome
Could you introduce me the app that you used in the video?
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
I have a request! . Could you please discuss more what you meant by '' the letter at the end of the word is not aspirated '' . Did you mean not pronounced ( I don't think so! ) , Sometimes I don't hear you saying the letter at the end of the word though .. thank you!
This video should help: ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html
@@SoundsAmerican thank you for replying ..I checked out the video , it is a great video and helped me understand better...
here I am, coming back to the same video to practice this sound again .
@@nadineahmed2672 There's no air pushed out. But the letter is clearly noticeable due to the sudden stop of air as you put the tip of your tongue against the alveolar ridge not releasing the slightest amount of air, also the tongue hits the alveolar rigde relatively hardly so that you can hear the impact sound, it's what you hear like when you slightly slap your face. Do it as you would do you when the letter is at the beginning, but don't release any air when it's at the end. I hope this helps.
If you're coming from an Arabic background it can be slightly tricky as many Arabic speaking people think that this letter is the same as the Arabic دال which is not true and you can notice their mistake when they pronounce words like Door, Dumb, Dark with the Arabic دال.
@@proudg9026 thank you for replying. yes, Arabic is my mother tongue. I didn't get the part when said that the letter "d" is not the same as the Arabic letter "dal". could you please elaborate more on that as I've always thought that both letters are equivalent to each other. I would appreciate if you point out the difference between the two letters. thanks.
What's the app that you used?
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
@@SoundsAmerican I'm looking forward to get their app, you're the best❤
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thans you
Which app is this bro ???
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
@@SoundsAmerican can you plz explain me better bcoz i face problem in only d consonant , through video call .
What is app?
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
Amazing but so difficult
great
How can I ever thank you?
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"Kind" is killing me! I cannot say it without the final d being aspirated. Otherwise it sounds like "kine." Uggghh. #TheStruggle
Ashley Winfrey d is the toughest when it’s at the end of the word.
This is called:
Voiced alveolar plosive
A pulmonic consanant
I wonder why we have aspirated and unaspirated /d/ here, the chart I used just distinguish /t/ /p/ /k/ (voicedless consonents) as aspirated and unaspirated
+Akira Fu , Both voiced, and voiceless stop consonants are aspirated at the beginning of words and syllables.The aspiration is stronger for the voiceless sounds, so it's just more noticeable. If you want to check it, just pronounce the word "dog," reverse it and say it again. 😊 See the difference?Some non-native speakers involuntarily devoice the voiced stops at the end of words and turn the /b/, the /d/, and the /g/ sounds into the /p/, /t/, and the /k/. So, teachers focus more on pointing out the importance of voicing them correctly. Aspiration is the lesser evil of those two mistakes 😊.BTW, the final stop rule which means that the stops at the end of words and syllables are not aspirated applies to voiced stops as well.
Thank you so much for responding to my message~ Your answer is fair clear!!! （ノ≧∀≦）ノ
"The aspiration is stronger for the voiceless sounds, so it's just more noticeable. If you want to check it, just pronounce the word "dog," reverse it and say it again." Here I am not quite sure what you mean because /d/ and /g/ are both voiced sound.
+Akira Fu, somehow a bug in the UA-cam comments cut a sentence ((. What we meant was, it's easier to notice aspiration of the voiceless stops, however, the voiced stop consonants are aspirated too. And the aspiration of the initial voiced stops is stronger. There's a trick that helps notice the aspiration of the voiced stops: pronounce "dog," reverse this word and pronounce again.
Now it is understandable~ thanks you OwO
están muy buenos los vídeos pero si explicaras el punto de vista de los vídeos en español estaría mucho que mejor
+Francisco Baquedano Esperamos que los subtítulos en español sean útiles.😀
What sound do we pronounce in 'Mind you' ? d͡ʒ?
+macro Rus , Hello there!
Again, excellent question! And, as it often happens, there's no a simple answer 😊.
First, we're having a hard time coming up with a sentence with "mind you." We can think of one with "remind you" but not "mind you." But it doesn't matter, as this process of pronouncing the /d/ as /dʒ/ happens in general when a verb form links with "you," for example, "did you" or "should you." -).
Secondly, it depends on how quickly this phrase is pronounced and if the stress within the sentence is shifted to either of those words.
If it's said more slowly and/or if either or both of those two words are the least bit emphasized then it is less palatalized (pronounced as /dʒ/ ) or not at all.
If it's in connected, fast conversational speech then we would palatalize them (pronounce as /dʒ/).
Hope it helps!
thnx
That well to have the sounds for "d".
Stop D apply in past regular verbs
One more lit vid guys!
+Alex Alex 😄🖖
Hello! Do ‘had a” and “had” sound the same? To me, “had a boy ” is the same with “had boy”. 😂😂😂 Looking forward to your reply. Thank you!
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in dog but it didn't show dog . That's in the TITLE .
Sorry, not sure we understood what you were looking for in the word "dog." In the titles for our videos, we use the most common words as examples so that people could understand better which sound we're going to talk about. The word "dog" starts with the /d/ sound, that's why we use it. And that's also why we didn't include it in the exercise, just to avoid repetition.
I was hoping that you were going to cover, the ed’s here as watched, rated, pulled, walked....
+Ray Rab , we'll definitely cover the '-ed' endings next year as we want to dedicate a special video to this topic.
@@SoundsAmerican Is that video out? It would definitely be useful.