/s/ vs /ʃ/ Minimal Pairs - S vs SH Sounds - American English Pronunciation Practice

This video will help train your ear to hear and pronounce the /s/ and /ʃ/ consonant sounds -- often (but not always) made by the letters S and SH. Listen to each Minimal Pair and repeat the word pairs aloud.
Minimal Pairs are two words that sound the same EXCEPT FOR one sound.
To produce the /s/ sound, the sides of the tongue touch the middle and back upper teeth while the tip of the tongue is lowered a bit. Air flows out the middle part of the tongue. The /s/ sound is voiceless and sounds hissy (in contrast to the /z/ sound which takes the same mouth position. The /z/ sound is voiced and sounds buzzy.)
To produce the /ʃ/ sound: the lips are slightly tense and protrude forward as they do when you shush someone, urging them to be quiet. The tongue is high in the mouth with the sides touching the insides of the back teeth with air forced over the center of the tongue, encountering friction at the back of the tooth ridge. The /ʃ/ sound is a continuous unvoiced sound - meaning the sound can be held as long as there is breath in the lungs and the vocal cords do not vibrate. If the vocal cords vibrate, the /ʒ/ (ZH) sound results.
/s/ vs /ʃ/ Minimal Pairs - American English Pronunciation Practice - Listen and Repeat
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