Over 8 years into learning English, married to an English native speaker who keeps cracking up every time a mispronounce words starting with a 's' . Not anymore . Thanks to YOU I'v just been able to produce the 's' sound without the annoying hissing. Shout out to your teaching skills! Cheers.
Thank you. I've been insecure about my s hiss sound for a while and after seeing this video it got better. A lot of people blamed teeth structure for this which made me lose hope for a bit
As someone who's never had this problem but has wondered every now and then why this could happen, my first assumption was that they have too much saliva in their mouths haha. Well, not for the example shown in this video, but in cases where you can hear the saliva modulating the "sss" or "sh" sound someone makes, making it sound wet and sloshy/splashy.
For those who are confused, all of this advice also applies to the bottom row of teeth. Most people pronounce the s sound with the tongue just behind the top row, but there are also some people who place it just behind the bottom row. Some people can do it both ways, but most people can only pronounce s the one way.
Thank you! I was confused because I have a bit of a lisp, but my s sounds start on my bottom teeth, never the top. Following his advice for the top teeth actually made the lisp far worse :D
Thank you. I'm realizing I'm one of those that do it both ways depending on where the "S" is in the word (i.e. beginning, middle, or end), so nothing offered in this video is helping. Especially when a word, for example, starts and ends with an "S," like the word "sounds" - I can only get the "S" sounding better at the beginning by moving my tongue away from my lower teeth, but then the plural "S" at the end either gets distorted (like a speech impediment) or, after practicing, becomes a "z" sound if I emphasize the "d" right before it. To remove it completely, in my case, seems to only work by either dramatically opening and changing my mouth/lip shape throughout a drawn out pronunciation of this one syllable word (but my mouth inherently treats it like a 2-syllable word on that last "s" - with an added vowel sound coming after)... Which looks quite ridiculous and tires out my jaw.... Or, if I keep my mouth/lip shape looking normal, and focus on making the "s" come from the "d" (if that makes sense), I have to change my breath to push the last "s" out, if I don't want it to turn into a pretty harsh "z" sound. Hopefully at least some of this makes sense... I do have issues with jaw alignment and TMJ, and when dealing with painful TMJD the mouth can't fully open when speaking due to pain, tissue swelling, muscle spasms triggered by the joint dislocation itself, guarding against risk of overextension especially if you have joint hypermobility like I do (risking jaw dislocating & lock jaw) - causing enunciation issues. Bruxism (grinding/clenching teeth) on its own also causes issues with my tongue, given it too gets teeth marks while unconsciously acting as barrier to protect teeth (doesn't help that lots Specialists actually tell TMJ patients to do this to prevent fracturing teeth), causing it to fatigue and swell. It's also possible my tongue swells on its own for various reasons that haven't been clinically assessed... And are very unlikely to, given how doctors are... (dismissive of issues/complaints/symptoms that aren't "injurious" or life threatening). Swelling could possibly be caused by chronic environmental allergies, autoimmunity, acute infection, hormone imbalance and/or thyroid disease, etc - BUT I've had this issue since before I developed any of these diagnoses, so again, my jaw alignment could be a big part of the problem - possibly creating a smaller space the tongue amongst my lower teeth (although I no longer have an overbite, so idk). Either way, this causes fatigue for the tongue, which is correlated with the "S" issue. If that's the case... There's no medical or dental intervention that can help my case, given there's no cure for EDS, which causes joint hypermobility, a musculoskeletal disease. Jaw surgery won't stop hyperextension or shifting alignment, which is usually fixed by straightening and/or re-aligning morals - a temporary fix for those with EDS given it causes teeth to shift. I already wear a highly specialized mouth guard for TMJ... And if insurance would cover Botox to treat the hypertrophied jaw muscles, that'd greatly reduced my jaw pain. I already deal with fatigue now when speaking too long or too often... Feels like I'm slowly losing my ability to communicate, let alone get past this one speech issue that makes me sound like a valley girl, and messes with my singing voice. EDS isn't a rare disease and it's insanely underdiagnosed, there's absolutely no reason for research to be so underfunded because I guarantee you tons of people with this, and other speech impediments, have TMJ, and therefore could have EDS - the leading cause of TMJ & TMJD.
OMG! I have a lisp and I didn't realize you were supposed to put your tongue behind the TOP row of teeth! no wonder it sounded weird....this helped me so much ty 😭💖💖
i put my tongue behind the bottom row teeth and it works just the same, i used to have a problem saying "S", then someone instructed me to place my tongue behind my front teeth and to the top of my mouth, i couldnt make the S sound then, but by simply trying to place my tongue behind my front teeth and not between or on them fixed the problem after a few days. the current situation is that the tip of my tongue is behind the bottom row, and the middle of it is high. i have an overbite and currently have braces, i don't know if it matters. hope this helps someone..
@@Tig3rS1 how u can say it when u put tongue down. I cant make any noice?? And my front teeth has a gap so its horrible. Can u tell me more about that when u put ur tongue down and overbite?
I think what never gets talked about is that almost everyone I speak to, has a different technique for pronouncing S because our mouths are shaped differently, our teeth are arranged differently, our tongue are different sizes, etc. The S sound should be abolished. It’s the only letter deaf people can’t pronounce, and even a lot of blind people and people with missing teeth struggle with it.
@@ultrakwon I use a small piece of gum pressed against the upper rear of my front teeth & partly on the roof of my mouth. Deflects air and really helps. Very small piece if gum.
I have a lisp because i had to wear braces and they were blocking everything in my mouth so I started lisping when I was wearing them at night and eventually it transferred into my everyday talking. I absolutely hate it. will practise this everyday now
I have a similar issue with breathing super shallowly because I had to wear a back brace for a number of years. Even though I've not worn it for perhaps 15 years or more my breathing is still super shallow. Sometimes these things have unknow consequences. I always found my voice slightly annoying and I didnt realise till the past week when I had to do a narrated powerpoint presentation for my UNI course what it was, I have a very slight lisp. I'm turning to TH-cam in the hope I may be able to learn to correct it. Have you had any luck?
I had it fixed by the end of the video!! Of course I'll be practicing, but I basically put my tounge away from the low back teeth, and arc'd it back a few millimeters so it wasn't touching teeth. Perfect! Sounds deeper and sexier now, too!
I've noticed I mainly use the left side of my tongue instead of the actual middle tip of it. This is going to take some time to fix but your video is a huge help. Thank you so much.
This. Video. Was. SOOOOOOOO Helpful! Not only is my lisp disappearing, but I’m finding It easier to pronounce other accents and language sounds. It’s like I can walk again, thank you!
+megan e Yes I found it really helpful as well! Not totally eliminated my lisp tho but it's hugely improved. I recorded my sound and I can tell the difference immediately.
I have had a lisp for all of my life with s, z, ch and sh. S is the worse I could never figure out why all of thr air went down the side and pulled my cheek in. This video, in a matter of minutes has transformed my speech and understanding of how to say s
Just want to add on. This video helped me so much. I did a couple voice sampling y=using this technique and talking normally and I can hear the difference instantly. I now just have to start the road to making it the normal way of speech for me.
Thank you sooo much for this. I just started doing some voice over stuff for fun and was shocked to hear how much of a lisp I have. From ages 9-16 I had retainers and braces to fix a really prominent overbite and some other stuff and the gap between the roof of my mouth and my tongue where the retainers sat for seven years permanently altered the way I spoke even without them on because I had to move my tongue so far forward to make S sounds. This is so so helpful, thank you very much for making this vid. I will be practicing ever day!
thanks this helps a lot I'm trying to get rid of my lisp because I wanted to be a pro wrestler and you have to talk on the mic alot. My only problem is when I say words like This, Chris, Miss, or best you can hear that ssssss sound to much
+Matt Pocock Try using a tripod and place the camera with a slight downward angle. That's apparently great for hiding double chins in our videos. (Not that you have one... Yet, lol)
As someone who went to years and years of both school and private speech therapy, this is very different from what I was taught for my S’s. But perhaps this method is for people with a different mouth shape/tongue length than myself 🤔
I have a frontal lisp where I place the tip of my tongue behind the bottom teeth. Most of my air comes from my side teeth. After saying a hard ‘t’ sound it ended up being ‘ts’. I’m now working on getting the ‘t’ out of ‘ts’ and applying that tongue placement to other words. It feels really weird, but sounds the same to me. To others it sounds like a clear ‘s’ when I apply this trick.
all S's are sibilants in English, same with Z and Sh, etc. You're probably talking about a more dentalised or even desibilised S, common occurrences in lisps. Pronouncing it more apically or more as a true alveolar however does not make it not a sibilant, that's just the word used to describe all S type sounds.
Try putting the tip of your tongue and placing it on the centre of your lower teeth, it takes some practice. But for me it lessens the length and sharpness of the S sound. Thus may vary with different people.
Hi....and thanks to you for this vedio, I'm a new English learner and I'm asking for help , have you a vedio on how to proper pronounce word T in English, I'm working on that and it seems little difficult😅......it would be great if you give me some hints....
I have an overbite, nothing bad, just a regular over bite that most people have, but when I go to say s sounds, my upper jaw moves back so that my top and bottom front teeth touch, is this normal?
I have a problem. I dont know where exactly to put my tongue. It sounds more ridiculous than before. I usally say the S/Z with my tongue slightly between my teeth.
I freaking knew I recognized you from your TypeScript content! I watched this video long before I knew you or that you did coding content. How big are the odds!
Hello!I,m 20 years Old and have lateral lisp from my childhood till now which is very hard to deal with,you explained it very excellent way...I have the same problem when I pronounce S,the air comes out of my right side and I sounds like slushy...I have some little gap b/w right side of teeth which I feel that the air comes from that point...What i can I do please help me to solve this and also please tell me the exact position of tongue when pronouncing "S" my tongue is touching the upper two teeth....Thank You
When I move my tongue tip from the point shown in the video to actually touching my front teeth, I start to get into lisp territory. I don't know if this can help you but I hope it does at least a little bit.
@@mikeexits hey can you help me getting rid of lisp..it has taken my life to worst ... please help me with some tips and tricks...It will be great help
@@uvdestiny As far as techniques and practices I'm really not sure other than slowly practicing making different phonetic (speaking, like syllables and vowels) sounds and moving between them to find the problem areas, and then focus on practicing those problem areas. But if I find anything I'll try to find this again and update. But Chaga and Lion's Mane mushroom supplements are healing for DNA and Neurons respectively, so maybe that would be a good place to start? I'd recommend only Host Defense brand (Paul Stamets's brand, definitely look up his work if you want to know more about medicinal mushrooms), it's the only one that seems potent enough that I actually noticed benefits from it, while other brands like Om didn't do much for me. If it's a neural problem or something DNA repair can help with, then maybe those could help. I've also heard some people had stutters outright cured from psilocybin ('magic') mushrooms, but I have no idea how well that would translate to helping with lisps; plus, Psychedelics are something to be treated with a lot of caution and respect, and are not for everyone (especially if you're still not 20-25 or so yet). On the off chance you're already interested, I'd advise doing dozens of hours of research into this subject and how to proceed safely (Look up harm reduction practices regarding psychedelics) before you even take steps to acquire the stuff (which by the way, is illegal in most areas, so use your own discretion). Anyway, all that aside, I don't have much else to share that could potentially help. I'm gonna post one more comment after this one with a name of a person who should be able to help you far more than I could (I'm putting it in another comment because sometimes when I name another person or channel name my comment gets censored). Much love and I hope you find exactly what you need to heal.
@@uvdestiny Ryan Cropper Oh, another similar channel you might find interesting is Daniel Mackler. He's more focused on psychology in particular, while Ryan Cropper goes more into metaphysics, and he also does direct 1 on 1 consultations. It costs a bit but for how good he is it's pretty cheap. I guarantee he would be able to help you a lot in just one session, but e-mail him first and ask if you're feeling unsure. Let him know what you want help with. I have direct experience working with his info with lots of progress to show for it, and I have a friend who did a consultation, and said only good things.
Hi Matt. I went to the orthodontist and they said I had a tongue thrust and I have an anterior open bite so my tongue goes through my front teeth. Is there any way I can help my s sounds because I can't put it anywhere else. I have elastic bands to close my bite. Help please 😊
Wrote this for someone else and am copy-pasting it here. Sorry....not original. Read up on "tongue carriage" and "articulatory setting." Tongue size may not be the issue, and even it if it is, one can compensate for it. If your resting tongue posture is forward, it can impact S/Z and even SH/ZH sounds. It takes considerable retraining to modify one's articulatory setting, but it's possible. Pull your tongue back into your mouth until it rests behind your lower teeth instead of pushing up against them. Slowly and systematically habituate your self to this new position.
I make overly sibilant /S/ sounds. I’ve noticed when I make the /S/ and /Z/ sounds: (1) My jaws don’t align; my bottom jaw is offset to my left. If I purposely make my jaw align (with a mirror), my /S/ is less sibilant - but often not sibilant enough (sounds like “sh” or /ʃ/). (2) The tip of my tongue may go too far back - it seems to touch the roof of my mouth, behind the alveolar ridge.
When I did the exercise where you point the tip of your tongue I found that rather than having the tip of my tongue touch the sides of my tongue seemed to want to widen and touch my upper teeth (second molar). In other words I can touch the tip of my tongue as instructed, but when I try to do the actual sound "S-ah-s" the sides of my tongue seem to want to curve up rather than the tip of my tongue. Any ideas?
My uncle always interrupts me to comment about my S. I've never heard a complaint but now I can't not hear it. I have no gaps in my teeth at all and it really doesn't seem to be awful. Now my father has a super loud S sometimes and it like pierces my eardrum so maybe that how my uncle hears it.
Unfortunately it didn't help thx for trying though but I am still super lucky that you helped me kinda but I am hard on myself so whenever I talk I feel like I'm the only person in my family that has lisp thx tho and do you think you can do a video for kids because it is hard for a person like me to understand.
Is a sibilant s what Matthew McConaughy, Winona Ryder and Paul Riser have? It sounds like they're whistling when that talk. Or this that called something else?
I've watched this video several times and it is absolutely hilarious, I can't stop laughing! You would make a great comedian and impressionist if you're not doing that already! I often hear the sibilant s in people's speech which I why I often seem to return to this video.
I always make the second "sss" sound and I'm physically unable to make an s sound if my tongue is any further than right behind my teeth. Any suggestions?
I just dont why i googled this issue of mine and i got here to this video. I cant say word like Six, Sex, Success, obviously, Lets Celebrate, Kiss. I keep hissing in every pronunciation of such words
i have a list since i was a kid my issue is that i don't know how to position my tongue , and i can't hear my lisp when i record my voice , so i need some one to tell me, (it's a Sh and sometimes TH) Please help
this is incredible, So well explained, so in depth, the dot on the tongue is a super cute thing to start with and most of all its really HELPFUL, Thank you so Much
Everyone says I have a lisp. I can't hear it though. If I record myself on my phone I can't hear it too. But if I'm on another phone I sound different.
Since you're used to it, it can be hard to hear where your /s/ is going wrong. But if you're getting consistent feedback that it's not right, that might mean that your /s/ needs to change. What do you think?
Yeah it is really tough to have a lisp, especially in school. A girl named Ashley says that I suck at talking. And imma be a validictorian and imma have to talk in front of everyone. With a lisp 😪😓😥
I was making "s" sounds with the tip of my tongue pressed to the back of my front teeth, causing a noticable hissing sound. Placing the tip of my tongue at the ridge on the roof of my mouth seems to help. Placing it against my bottom gums seems to help too? Blowing less air out also seems to help, but maybe I'm imagining that... Anyway, I wonder why this is a problem with me. I have a "slight" overbite with "slight" buck teeth, so I'm told. Big tongues also run in the family. And one side of my upper lip is fuller than the other? But that might be because I have an incisor that sticks out a little farther on one side, though I never even noticed it until recently. Can uneven mouth muscles or bone structure cause this? Or messed up teeth? Can anything be done about it?
Unfortunately this does not work if you are missing certain teeth. So far as I can tell, there are certain teeth that you just *have* to have (and which I lack) to pronounce an S correctly. This bothers me as I _like_ doing things correctly. Due to an encounter with an overly enthusiastic orthodontist as a child, I have multiple large *asymmetric* gaps in my front upper teeth.
My first language is English and everything that i say has this annoying s sound and while this helps, im getting held back by my tongue tie which doesnt let me move my tongue as much. I dunno what to do here
Over 8 years into learning English, married to an English native speaker who keeps cracking up every time a mispronounce words starting with a 's' . Not anymore . Thanks to YOU I'v just been able to produce the 's' sound without the annoying hissing. Shout out to your teaching skills! Cheers.
Absolutely brilliant. Within seconds, you have totally cured my sibilant Ss. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Lots of people do it on purpose and that's why I have ear buds and pretend to listen but I don't, it's disgusting 😂
...my lisp is gone, but now I'm seasick from this dude dancing with his selfie-stick.
Gary Reid Music how did urs go
Lol I'm trying so hard to pronounce this now.
Theres an app for that
Hey can you please help me this lisp...plzz ..can you tell me how do I overcome this problem
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Thank you. I've been insecure about my s hiss sound for a while and after seeing this video it got better. A lot of people blamed teeth structure for this which made me lose hope for a bit
Personally I've been blaming my teeth structure all this time.
My teeth structure is actually bad
As someone who's never had this problem but has wondered every now and then why this could happen, my first assumption was that they have too much saliva in their mouths haha. Well, not for the example shown in this video, but in cases where you can hear the saliva modulating the "sss" or "sh" sound someone makes, making it sound wet and sloshy/splashy.
@@mikeexits I think it's my teeth they are really bad with holes everywhere
For those who are confused, all of this advice also applies to the bottom row of teeth. Most people pronounce the s sound with the tongue just behind the top row, but there are also some people who place it just behind the bottom row. Some people can do it both ways, but most people can only pronounce s the one way.
Well explained
Thank you! I was confused because I have a bit of a lisp, but my s sounds start on my bottom teeth, never the top. Following his advice for the top teeth actually made the lisp far worse :D
Any One can explain it in Hindi plz how to pronounce 's'
Thank you! Because this whole video I wasn’t able to do what he was talking about lol
Thank you. I'm realizing I'm one of those that do it both ways depending on where the "S" is in the word (i.e. beginning, middle, or end), so nothing offered in this video is helping. Especially when a word, for example, starts and ends with an "S," like the word "sounds" - I can only get the "S" sounding better at the beginning by moving my tongue away from my lower teeth, but then the plural "S" at the end either gets distorted (like a speech impediment) or, after practicing, becomes a "z" sound if I emphasize the "d" right before it. To remove it completely, in my case, seems to only work by either dramatically opening and changing my mouth/lip shape throughout a drawn out pronunciation of this one syllable word (but my mouth inherently treats it like a 2-syllable word on that last "s" - with an added vowel sound coming after)... Which looks quite ridiculous and tires out my jaw.... Or, if I keep my mouth/lip shape looking normal, and focus on making the "s" come from the "d" (if that makes sense), I have to change my breath to push the last "s" out, if I don't want it to turn into a pretty harsh "z" sound. Hopefully at least some of this makes sense...
I do have issues with jaw alignment and TMJ, and when dealing with painful TMJD the mouth can't fully open when speaking due to pain, tissue swelling, muscle spasms triggered by the joint dislocation itself, guarding against risk of overextension especially if you have joint hypermobility like I do (risking jaw dislocating & lock jaw) - causing enunciation issues.
Bruxism (grinding/clenching teeth) on its own also causes issues with my tongue, given it too gets teeth marks while unconsciously acting as barrier to protect teeth (doesn't help that lots Specialists actually tell TMJ patients to do this to prevent fracturing teeth), causing it to fatigue and swell. It's also possible my tongue swells on its own for various reasons that haven't been clinically assessed... And are very unlikely to, given how doctors are... (dismissive of issues/complaints/symptoms that aren't "injurious" or life threatening). Swelling could possibly be caused by chronic environmental allergies, autoimmunity, acute infection, hormone imbalance and/or thyroid disease, etc - BUT I've had this issue since before I developed any of these diagnoses, so again, my jaw alignment could be a big part of the problem - possibly creating a smaller space the tongue amongst my lower teeth (although I no longer have an overbite, so idk).
Either way, this causes fatigue for the tongue, which is correlated with the "S" issue.
If that's the case... There's no medical or dental intervention that can help my case, given there's no cure for EDS, which causes joint hypermobility, a musculoskeletal disease. Jaw surgery won't stop hyperextension or shifting alignment, which is usually fixed by straightening and/or re-aligning morals - a temporary fix for those with EDS given it causes teeth to shift. I already wear a highly specialized mouth guard for TMJ... And if insurance would cover Botox to treat the hypertrophied jaw muscles, that'd greatly reduced my jaw pain. I already deal with fatigue now when speaking too long or too often... Feels like I'm slowly losing my ability to communicate, let alone get past this one speech issue that makes me sound like a valley girl, and messes with my singing voice. EDS isn't a rare disease and it's insanely underdiagnosed, there's absolutely no reason for research to be so underfunded because I guarantee you tons of people with this, and other speech impediments, have TMJ, and therefore could have EDS - the leading cause of TMJ & TMJD.
OMG! I have a lisp and I didn't realize you were supposed to put your tongue behind the TOP row of teeth! no wonder it sounded weird....this helped me so much ty 😭💖💖
The Sun it won’t work for me
I can't even do it bc my overbite is so bad
The Sun THANK YOU OMG YOUR INSTRUCTIONS HELPED IT HELPED MORE THAN THIS VIDEO
i put my tongue behind the bottom row teeth and it works just the same, i used to have a problem saying "S", then someone instructed me to place my tongue behind my front teeth and to the top of my mouth, i couldnt make the S sound then, but by simply trying to place my tongue behind my front teeth and not between or on them fixed the problem after a few days.
the current situation is that the tip of my tongue is behind the bottom row, and the middle of it is high.
i have an overbite and currently have braces, i don't know if it matters. hope this helps someone..
@@Tig3rS1 how u can say it when u put tongue down. I cant make any noice?? And my front teeth has a gap so its horrible. Can u tell me more about that when u put ur tongue down and overbite?
When you've watched 30+ videos of how to get rid of the ssssssss sound of the end of the s and th sound and nothing has helped :p
Blue Engelking meeeeeeee. my mom does it and im trying to get here to stop it makes me want to punch a wall
I think what never gets talked about is that almost everyone I speak to, has a different technique for pronouncing S because our mouths are shaped differently, our teeth are arranged differently, our tongue are different sizes, etc. The S sound should be abolished. It’s the only letter deaf people can’t pronounce, and even a lot of blind people and people with missing teeth struggle with it.
When I'm saying S but sounds is f plz help for this
@@ultrakwon I use a small piece of gum pressed against the upper rear of my front teeth & partly on the roof of my mouth. Deflects air and really helps. Very small piece if gum.
Same. I don’t have a lisp but my s’ are like essss. My tongue is in the right position so I don’t get it lol
I have a lisp because i had to wear braces and they were blocking everything in my mouth so I started lisping when I was wearing them at night and eventually it transferred into my everyday talking. I absolutely hate it. will practise this everyday now
Great to hear! Good luck :)
Have you been practicing?
seahood OMGGG i just got my braces the other day and my friends told me that i had a lisp beacuse of them.Its so awlful...Idk what to do
r u better now?
I have a similar issue with breathing super shallowly because I had to wear a back brace for a number of years. Even though I've not worn it for perhaps 15 years or more my breathing is still super shallow. Sometimes these things have unknow consequences. I always found my voice slightly annoying and I didnt realise till the past week when I had to do a narrated powerpoint presentation for my UNI course what it was, I have a very slight lisp. I'm turning to TH-cam in the hope I may be able to learn to correct it. Have you had any luck?
I had it fixed by the end of the video!! Of course I'll be practicing, but I basically put my tounge away from the low back teeth, and arc'd it back a few millimeters so it wasn't touching teeth. Perfect! Sounds deeper and sexier now, too!
It sounds deeper and sexier ? Lol i hope i'll improve my S pronunciation too
I was born with a lisp, and this video is the only really helpful one. Thanks!
Great tutorial Matt. Gave it a whirl and I hear the difference instantly. Cheers from Florida.
I've noticed I mainly use the left side of my tongue instead of the actual middle tip of it. This is going to take some time to fix but your video is a huge help. Thank you so much.
Same
This. Video. Was. SOOOOOOOO Helpful! Not only is my lisp disappearing, but I’m finding It easier to pronounce other accents and language sounds. It’s like I can walk again, thank you!
How u do it.
Elias Hiltunen Watch the video
I did
U say the s front teeth or putting tongue down?
Elias Hiltunen The teeth trick, gradually moving your tongue further back.
Thank you so much you really don't know how much you've saved me mentally and I will forever be thankful for this
Holy hell it actually worked better than I thought it would, you are a life saver I can finally do this little voice over I wanted to do
everyone is telling their stories so I'm going to tell mine.
I have a big tongue the end
Animeguy23 😂😂😂
SAME BRUH SAME
Iv'A wide thick tongue... the sides hits the rt/lt sides of my teeth.
Wet and exaggerated S'es. This won t help me.
Animeguy23 mines fat
@Quốc Cường SAME HERE. But do u have gap in front ur teeth? I do. It makes very bad list noise
Thank you I've been trying to figure out my slushy s's for months! Thank you!
I really want to fix my "S" 😢😢😢😢
Same 😭
Same my tongue won’t listen to me 😭
Same
Me too 😭
me too! 😰
i have a lisp and i found this to be the first thing that i found really helpful with my speech. could you make another video like this?
+megan e
Yes I found it really helpful as well! Not totally eliminated my lisp tho but it's hugely improved. I recorded my sound and I can tell the difference immediately.
+megan e Hi Megan - so glad you found this helpful. Has the lisp gone completely?
+Muye Zhang Hi Muye - yay! Glad to hear I could help. Has the sound changed for you at all?
I have had a lisp for all of my life with s, z, ch and sh. S is the worse I could never figure out why all of thr air went down the side and pulled my cheek in. This video, in a matter of minutes has transformed my speech and understanding of how to say s
Just want to add on. This video helped me so much. I did a couple voice sampling y=using this technique and talking normally and I can hear the difference instantly. I now just have to start the road to making it the normal way of speech for me.
Thank you sooo much for this. I just started doing some voice over stuff for fun and was shocked to hear how much of a lisp I have. From ages 9-16 I had retainers and braces to fix a really prominent overbite and some other stuff and the gap between the roof of my mouth and my tongue where the retainers sat for seven years permanently altered the way I spoke even without them on because I had to move my tongue so far forward to make S sounds. This is so so helpful, thank you very much for making this vid. I will be practicing ever day!
thanks this helps a lot I'm trying to get rid of my lisp because I wanted to be a pro wrestler and you have to talk on the mic alot. My only problem is when I say words like This, Chris, Miss, or best you can hear that ssssss sound to much
Those are very helpful advices for s sound tippers; but what about s sound dippers(those produce s sound with the tongue close to the lower teeth)?
By the end I noticed every single 'S' sound you made. haha. Very interesting video. Maybe the selfie stick could do with some stabalisation though.
Agreeeed :) Still learning to use it!
+Matt Pocock Try using a tripod and place the camera with a slight downward angle. That's apparently great for hiding double chins in our videos. (Not that you have one... Yet, lol)
Am i the only one having a hard time putting the tongue back while saying "s"?
You're not alone 😩
I think it's just going to take a lot of practice.
This was very helpful. Thank you Matt!
So, should the tip of my tongue be touching the roof of my mouth?
Hey. I'm 13 with a really bad lisp, I have long front teeth and a large tounge. This did help a little, and thank you for making this video!
Hey Evan, thanks so much! Ok, often as your body grows it'll become easier to make the sounds, so you'll be able to hit them cleaner :) Good luck!
As someone who went to years and years of both school and private speech therapy, this is very different from what I was taught for my S’s. But perhaps this method is for people with a different mouth shape/tongue length than myself 🤔
I had to recite a poem with a lot of S alliterations when I was young. It was scarring. My lisp comes from sucking my thumb till I was 5!
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I needed this actually since I was born
I have a frontal lisp where I place the tip of my tongue behind the bottom teeth. Most of my air comes from my side teeth. After saying a hard ‘t’ sound it ended up being ‘ts’. I’m now working on getting the ‘t’ out of ‘ts’ and applying that tongue placement to other words. It feels really weird, but sounds the same to me. To others it sounds like a clear ‘s’ when I apply this trick.
all S's are sibilants in English, same with Z and Sh, etc. You're probably talking about a more dentalised or even desibilised S, common occurrences in lisps. Pronouncing it more apically or more as a true alveolar however does not make it not a sibilant, that's just the word used to describe all S type sounds.
Try putting the tip of your tongue and placing it on the centre of your lower teeth, it takes some practice. But for me it lessens the length and sharpness of the S sound. Thus may vary with different people.
Hi....and thanks to you for this vedio, I'm a new English learner and I'm asking for help , have you a vedio on how to proper pronounce word T in English, I'm working on that and it seems little difficult😅......it would be great if you give me some hints....
OMG thank you so much this actually works youre a hero. not all heroes wear capes
Perhaps this is a very underrated channel?
I have an overbite, nothing bad, just a regular over bite that most people have, but when I go to say s sounds, my upper jaw moves back so that my top and bottom front teeth touch, is this normal?
Thank you...have since 5th grade, from right side of mouth.
Will this work with me making the whistling sound on my S's?
I have a problem. I dont know where exactly to put my tongue. It sounds more ridiculous than before. I usally say the S/Z with my tongue slightly between my teeth.
Thanks you so much! This video helped me a lot to get rid of my sibilant Ss💜
Hey Matt! Any recommendations for trouble with SL words -- slow, slack, etc.?
all my life I've been bullied for not pronouncing the proper S sound.
I freaking knew I recognized you from your TypeScript content! I watched this video long before I knew you or that you did coding content. How big are the odds!
Brooooo thankkssssss because of you my hissing s is gone
Fantastic resource. Thank you for your hard work and sharing your knowledge. I have sssssubsssscribed.
Hello!I,m 20 years Old and have lateral lisp from my childhood till now which is very hard to deal with,you explained it very excellent way...I have the same problem when I pronounce S,the air comes out of my right side and I sounds like slushy...I have some little gap b/w right side of teeth which I feel that the air comes from that point...What i can I do please help me to solve this and also please tell me the exact position of tongue when pronouncing "S" my tongue is touching the upper two teeth....Thank You
When I move my tongue tip from the point shown in the video to actually touching my front teeth, I start to get into lisp territory. I don't know if this can help you but I hope it does at least a little bit.
@@mikeexits hey can you help me getting rid of lisp..it has taken my life to worst ... please help me with some tips and tricks...It will be great help
@@uvdestiny As far as techniques and practices I'm really not sure other than slowly practicing making different phonetic (speaking, like syllables and vowels) sounds and moving between them to find the problem areas, and then focus on practicing those problem areas. But if I find anything I'll try to find this again and update. But Chaga and Lion's Mane mushroom supplements are healing for DNA and Neurons respectively, so maybe that would be a good place to start? I'd recommend only Host Defense brand (Paul Stamets's brand, definitely look up his work if you want to know more about medicinal mushrooms), it's the only one that seems potent enough that I actually noticed benefits from it, while other brands like Om didn't do much for me. If it's a neural problem or something DNA repair can help with, then maybe those could help.
I've also heard some people had stutters outright cured from psilocybin ('magic') mushrooms, but I have no idea how well that would translate to helping with lisps; plus, Psychedelics are something to be treated with a lot of caution and respect, and are not for everyone (especially if you're still not 20-25 or so yet). On the off chance you're already interested, I'd advise doing dozens of hours of research into this subject and how to proceed safely (Look up harm reduction practices regarding psychedelics) before you even take steps to acquire the stuff (which by the way, is illegal in most areas, so use your own discretion).
Anyway, all that aside, I don't have much else to share that could potentially help. I'm gonna post one more comment after this one with a name of a person who should be able to help you far more than I could (I'm putting it in another comment because sometimes when I name another person or channel name my comment gets censored). Much love and I hope you find exactly what you need to heal.
@@uvdestiny Ryan Cropper
Oh, another similar channel you might find interesting is Daniel Mackler. He's more focused on psychology in particular, while Ryan Cropper goes more into metaphysics, and he also does direct 1 on 1 consultations. It costs a bit but for how good he is it's pretty cheap. I guarantee he would be able to help you a lot in just one session, but e-mail him first and ask if you're feeling unsure. Let him know what you want help with. I have direct experience working with his info with lots of progress to show for it, and I have a friend who did a consultation, and said only good things.
I came here on search for a good De-esser and you just... Arrrgh! my ears!
Hi Matt. I went to the orthodontist and they said I had a tongue thrust and I have an anterior open bite so my tongue goes through my front teeth. Is there any way I can help my s sounds because I can't put it anywhere else. I have elastic bands to close my bite. Help please 😊
Thanks for the help
*Any ideas for people who have big tongues...?*
Thank you, you were a big help.
Wrote this for someone else and am copy-pasting it here. Sorry....not original. Read up on "tongue carriage" and "articulatory setting." Tongue size may not be the issue, and even it if it is, one can compensate for it. If your resting tongue posture is forward, it can impact S/Z and even SH/ZH sounds. It takes considerable retraining to modify one's articulatory setting, but it's possible. Pull your tongue back into your mouth until it rests behind your lower teeth instead of pushing up against them. Slowly and systematically habituate your self to this new position.
Thankyou
I honestly can't thank you enough!
I make overly sibilant /S/ sounds. I’ve noticed when I make the /S/ and /Z/ sounds:
(1) My jaws don’t align; my bottom jaw is offset to my left. If I purposely make my jaw align (with a mirror), my /S/ is less sibilant - but often not sibilant enough (sounds like “sh” or /ʃ/).
(2) The tip of my tongue may go too far back - it seems to touch the roof of my mouth, behind the alveolar ridge.
When I did the exercise where you point the tip of your tongue I found that rather than having the tip of my tongue touch the sides of my tongue seemed to want to widen and touch my upper teeth (second molar). In other words I can touch the tip of my tongue as instructed, but when I try to do the actual sound "S-ah-s" the sides of my tongue seem to want to curve up rather than the tip of my tongue. Any ideas?
My uncle always interrupts me to comment about my S. I've never heard a complaint but now I can't not hear it. I have no gaps in my teeth at all and it really doesn't seem to be awful. Now my father has a super loud S sometimes and it like pierces my eardrum so maybe that how my uncle hears it.
I move my tongue further back but it just sounds all air-y. If i tense my tongue a bit harder it sounds a bit more normal but then im yelling
Unfortunately it didn't help thx for trying though but I am still super lucky that you helped me kinda but I am hard on myself so whenever I talk I feel like I'm the only person in my family that has lisp thx tho and do you think you can do a video for kids because it is hard for a person like me to understand.
Excellent - thank you for doing this video!!
Can you make another one of this video it really helped
+kadier leehourse I'm glad it helped you out :) Which bit did you find tricky?
Matt Pocock sorry for 2 year late reply, my lisp has improved but it comes some times
This was so helpful, thank you!
Is a sibilant s what Matthew McConaughy, Winona Ryder and Paul Riser have? It sounds like they're whistling when that talk. Or this that called something else?
That genuinely is the opposite.
@Mike S No, it isn't. Sibilant S is like daffy duck in its extreme form.
I just got rid of an unrelated speech impediment omg. Thanks
I've watched this video several times and it is absolutely hilarious, I can't stop laughing! You would make a great comedian and impressionist if you're not doing that already! I often hear the sibilant s in people's speech which I why I often seem to return to this video.
I always make the second "sss" sound and I'm physically unable to make an s sound if my tongue is any further than right behind my teeth. Any suggestions?
Me too
Sarah Masse are you sure? You may be going to far back.
I can’t control my freakin tounge
wow thanks so much for this!
I just dont why i googled this issue of mine and i got here to this video. I cant say word like Six, Sex, Success, obviously, Lets Celebrate, Kiss. I keep hissing in every pronunciation of such words
Interesting video!
I think is really helping me
Wow didn't think it's that simple
i have a list since i was a kid
my issue is that i don't know how to position my tongue , and i can't hear my lisp when i record my voice , so i need some one to tell me, (it's a Sh and sometimes TH)
Please help
this is incredible, So well explained, so in depth, the dot on the tongue is a super cute thing to start with and most of all its really HELPFUL, Thank you so Much
That's a huge help !! Thank you !!
Everyone says I have a lisp. I can't hear it though. If I record myself on my phone I can't hear it too. But if I'm on another phone I sound different.
What do you hear when you make the S? Does it sound like a 'SH', or like a whistle?
Matt Pocock, It sounds like S to me but everyone else says I have the lateral/splashy lisp.
Since you're used to it, it can be hard to hear where your /s/ is going wrong. But if you're getting consistent feedback that it's not right, that might mean that your /s/ needs to change. What do you think?
Matt Pocock, Yeah I think so.
@@MattPocock hi i pronounce s to sh... Idk how to fix it
Muscle control is so good to learn !
Sending virtual hug for reader of this comment
VERY helpful tipth for voithe-over, dude. Thankth tho much! :p
very well presented. useful.
Pronouncing the S is like whistling with your tongue.
@Ajax Stifler SAME
Thank you so much bro
I have this problem. plz help me.. I really want to get rid of this completely
may i know when we want yo pronounce, do we put the tip of our tongue in the middle of our two front teeth?
Yup
cheers mate, very helpful
Thank you so much.
Do you do speech therapy lessons?
Yeah it is really tough to have a lisp, especially in school. A girl named Ashley says that I suck at talking. And imma be a validictorian and imma have to talk in front of everyone. With a lisp 😪😓😥
Kim Garza thats why i hated talkin infront of everyone in lessons
You have plenty of time to fix the lisp. Practice daily. This video is not the best one. You should already know if you are lateral lisp or frontal.
Ashley sounds like a bitch. You'll be great!!!
Kimberly Garza lol Ashley is a idiot
Laura Kratovil she’s referencing a different word sorry I know it’s an old comment
I was making "s" sounds with the tip of my tongue pressed to the back of my front teeth, causing a noticable hissing sound. Placing the tip of my tongue at the ridge on the roof of my mouth seems to help. Placing it against my bottom gums seems to help too? Blowing less air out also seems to help, but maybe I'm imagining that... Anyway, I wonder why this is a problem with me. I have a "slight" overbite with "slight" buck teeth, so I'm told. Big tongues also run in the family. And one side of my upper lip is fuller than the other? But that might be because I have an incisor that sticks out a little farther on one side, though I never even noticed it until recently. Can uneven mouth muscles or bone structure cause this? Or messed up teeth? Can anything be done about it?
Absolutely marvelous! Thanks
thank you
Unfortunately this does not work if you are missing certain teeth. So far as I can tell, there are certain teeth that you just *have* to have (and which I lack) to pronounce an S correctly. This bothers me as I _like_ doing things correctly.
Due to an encounter with an overly enthusiastic orthodontist as a child, I have multiple large *asymmetric* gaps in my front upper teeth.
imma do the practice with "sus" instead haha
thank you you're a *s*saviour
Why do i pronounce the S as an SH and is there any idea how to fix it???
My first language is English and everything that i say has this annoying s sound and while this helps, im getting held back by my tongue tie which doesnt let me move my tongue as much. I dunno what to do here
Thank you Matt!
Thank you!!!
Hi I'm 13, and have a lisp and need more help, it just isn't working and I feel I need to get rid of this as soon as I can, thanks
Hey - I'd be really happy to help you out! What sounds are you struggling with?
+Matt Pocock just 's' and 'th'
+Matt Pocock just 's' and 'th'
+Matt Pocock just 's' and 'th'