🎉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 /h/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_h_as_in_home
Glad that you liked our videos! Just a note: in English, it's important to differentiate between letters and sounds, as a letter can represent more than one sound. This is often confusing for non-native speakers, but that's just how English works. 😊In our videos, we teach how to pronounce sounds, not letters. Let us know if you have any questions!
You teach very well and easy to understand, your useful knowledge helps me to approach English properly from the very beginning. I always click and watch all the ads in your videos. You are one of my favorite teachers. Thanks for everything! Thanks to your team!
@@SoundsAmerican Yeah, I watch the lesson video in one browser and open another to run the ads 🤣 PS: I have completed the course and now I am doing more practice Hope your channel grows more and more
+Thank you! We've read all your comments and we're happy to hear that our videos are so helpful. Let us know if you have any questions on pronunciation! BTW, we also publish posts in TH-cam Community (check the Community tab on our channel page). 🤗👋
Thanks for put your time to create this video. The explanation is the best. The drawing of how to put the tongue, the lips and the mouth helped me a lot. All your videos have helped me a lot!
As a SLP student I can say these videos are very helpful for sound production.... make an app and release it for android and apple....much much better than pictures.... many patients will find this helpful!
Spanish speakers might make the /x/ sound because it's highly used when speaking Spanish. I realized this by listening to my own pronunciation, when I compared the sound I was making to the one I was listening to in English movies/series. There are no words pronounced with /x/ in English, right?
+Marquito L Yes, correct, pronouncing the /x/ instead of the /h/ is one of the most common mistakes that Spanish speakers make when speaking English. This sound is not used in English words.
Intresting video. The funny thing is that this sound /h/ exist in my native language, brazilian portuguese, so I don't have trouble pronouncing it, however the letter that represents this sound in my language spelling is the letter R in the beginning of words like rato /'ha.tu/ (rat), recado /hɛ.'ka.du/ (message), rio /'hi.u/ (river). And the sound /h/ also can be represented in portuguese spelling by the double R = RR which is called a diagraph ( the combination of two letters that represent one single sound), for example in words like barra /'ba.ha/ (bar = steel bar or chocolate bar) , burro /'bu.hu/ (donkey), barriga /ba.'hi:.ga/ (belly). We have the letter H in portuguese alphabet in many words like homem (man) , honestitade (honesty), hora ( hour), etc. but phonetically it's a silent letter, it doesn't represent any sound in Portuguese just like in English, where in many words the H is silent like, for example, the words hour or honesty.
11:29 hello, you said ( Next, we suggest you practice words in which the letter 'h' is actually NOT pronounced. ) is that mean the h silent. Thank you.
+Денис Василевский Our narrator tried to reproduce something close to the Russian /x/ to the best of his abilities. 😄 Looks like it worked. Maybe overdoing it a tad. 😊😉
@@SoundsAmerican He coped with this task very well:) To me, it is a good idea to compare wrong and correct pronunciation. It makes easier to see the difference. May I ask how many members is in your team?
+Денис Василевский Thanks, it was a matter of practice, besides it's much easier if you're a speech therapist. 😜 Thanks for your feedback on the typical mistakes part, it always helps us. About our team, four people worked on this particular video, that's not counting the translators who work on the subtitles.
@@SoundsAmerican Wow, a speech therapist, that's the level! If you ask me, I would make one video about your team which creates such a wonderful product. People should know their heroes. :))
+Денис Василевский Yes, all our videos and the exercises in our videos are recorded by a licensed speech therapist specializing in the General American accent. The best of the best. 😊
5:12 *In English, the /h/ consonant is always followed by a vowel sound.* Is the sound *w* exception? Like in the word *why* [ hwai ] or *white* [ hwait ]. Thanks for this video!
+Unknown User Guys, let's not make things more complicated than they are 😊. In American English, if there's the /h/ sound in a word, there's always a vowel sound after it. Please note that there's no /h/ in words "why" and "white."
+Edward Mancebo Glad you liked our video! We use our own app which we haven't released to the public yet. We're working to make it happen soon and will announce the release on this channel. Please stay tuned!
+Elwin Harahap Yes, there is. The /ʒ/ is a fricative sound, to make it you have to let the air out through a narrow passage in your mouth. The /dʒ/ is an affricate sound, to make it, you first need to stop the air and make the /d/ sound and immediately after that release the air, making the /ʒ/ sound. We'll publish a video about the /dʒ/ sound soon, stay tuned!
Hello, Sounds American! Could you please explain to me why sometimes 'he' doesn't sound the same as 'him'. It is like this [çi] and [him]. I've noticed that recently. These are kind of different sounds.
@@SoundsAmerican th-cam.com/video/uOG-4ZjR7ic/w-d-xo.html 1:42 - the first 'hi' 2:58 -> the first time when she says "behind" 3:06 -> 'here' Am I right?
OK, got it. First of all - awesome attention to detail and you've got a very good ear. This is definitely the same sound, what you hear is the difference in friction, to be more precise, in where the friction occurs. The /h/ sound is always affected by the following vowel sound. (th-cam.com/video/dV6At0g4n78/w-d-xo.html) In "hi" and "behind" the /h/ is followed by the /aɪ/ diphthong, which starts with the low /ɑ/ sound. In "here" the /h/ is followed by the /ɪr/ vowel sound, which starts with the high vowel sound /ɪ/ (or /i/). It's actually amazing that you heard that difference. 👍
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Please please! Sound America, can you make videos on the homophonic words, by this I mean words like these: this -----------------------------------> these hear -----------------------------------> here there -----------------------------------> their hard -----------------------------------> heard had -----------------------------------> had (past, participle etc) Boar -----------------------------------> Bore Board -----------------------------------> Bored Boarder -----------------------------------> Border Bolder -----------------------------------> Boulder Bootie -----------------------------------> Booty Born -----------------------------------> Borne Burro -----------------------------------> Burrow Brake -----------------------------------> Break Brews -----------------------------------> Bruise Bridal -----------------------------------> Bridle Broach -----------------------------------> Brooch But -----------------------------------> Butt Buy -----------------------------------> Bye Capital -----------------------------------> Capitol Carat -----------------------------------> Carrot Carol -----------------------------------> Carrel Cast -----------------------------------> Caste Cede -----------------------------------> Seed Ceiling -----------------------------------> Sealing Cell -----------------------------------> Sell This homophonic words are endless, but I will appreciate if you can really show me how to pronounce this.
+Lagu Stephen We already have a video about homophones, here's the link: th-cam.com/video/lrewt5USFk0/w-d-xo.html BTW, there are some pairs in your list that are not homophones, can you guess which ones?
🎉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 /h/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_h_as_in_home
Your videos give an in-depth idea about how to pronounce a specific letter. It is really great the way you teach. Appreciate it.
Glad that you liked our videos! Just a note: in English, it's important to differentiate between letters and sounds, as a letter can represent more than one sound. This is often confusing for non-native speakers, but that's just how English works. 😊In our videos, we teach how to pronounce sounds, not letters.
Let us know if you have any questions!
You teach very well and easy to understand, your useful knowledge helps me to approach English properly from the very beginning.
I always click and watch all the ads in your videos.
You are one of my favorite teachers.
Thanks for everything!
Thanks to your team!
What a loving and touching comment! 🧡 Thank you.
Please don't bother with the ads. 🤣
@@SoundsAmerican Yeah, I watch the lesson video in one browser and open another to run the ads 🤣
PS: I have completed the course and now I am doing more practice
Hope your channel grows more and more
@@adamvuive By the way, have seen our website? Check it out: soundsamerican.net/articles?tag=exercises
@@SoundsAmerican Thanks a lot!
Looking forward to your next projects
I have commented so many times here to appreciate your hard work and again thank you so much from the bottom of my heart
+Thank you! We've read all your comments and we're happy to hear that our videos are so helpful. Let us know if you have any questions on pronunciation! BTW, we also publish posts in TH-cam Community (check the Community tab on our channel page). 🤗👋
Concise, informative and clear, best lessons about pronunciation I have seen in the youtube.
Glad you liked our videos!
Thanks for put your time to create this video. The explanation is the best. The drawing of how to put the tongue, the lips and the mouth helped me a lot. All your videos have helped me a lot!
+Po Los You're welcome! Glad to hear that the explanations and the illustrations are so helpful!
As a SLP student I can say these videos are very helpful for sound production.... make an app and release it for android and apple....much much better than pictures.... many patients will find this helpful!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video , it helps a lot with my pronanction thank you again .
+roberrtt roberrt You're very welcome, happy to hear that it's been helpful!😊👋
Your channel is incredible! Thanks for being so awesome 👏
🤗👋Glad you liked it so much!
Can't wait for the app!
+Shawn Javaw We're working hard on it.
@@SoundsAmerican what is name of the app and is it has translation to arabic or not
Thanks! It improves my english a lot, thanks for your work and dedication
Glad to hear that!
Thank you very much !!! It really helps me !☺😀👍💛
Glad to hear it! 👍
Brilliant jobs sir!
Thank you! Cheers!
The best lessons ever, thanks so much for your great work
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Thank for their job.
13:19 for th , ch , sh and ph combination is the h changed the sound or the previous sound t, c ,s, p. thank you.
Spanish speakers might make the /x/ sound because it's highly used when speaking Spanish. I realized this by listening to my own pronunciation, when I compared the sound I was making to the one I was listening to in English movies/series. There are no words pronounced with /x/ in English, right?
+Marquito L Yes, correct, pronouncing the /x/ instead of the /h/ is one of the most common mistakes that Spanish speakers make when speaking English. This sound is not used in English words.
@@SoundsAmerican Cool. Thank you. Great video! I loved the chart at the end 😁😁
@Suomalainen Varis Yeah. Do you speak Spanish? 💜
+Marquito L Did you? Great! We love gathering data and crunching numbers :).
@@SoundsAmerican Sure. Keep on! We appreciate that so much :)
Intresting video. The funny thing is that this sound /h/ exist in my native language, brazilian portuguese, so I don't have trouble pronouncing it, however the letter that represents this sound in my language spelling is the letter R in the beginning of words like rato /'ha.tu/ (rat), recado /hɛ.'ka.du/ (message), rio /'hi.u/ (river). And the sound /h/ also can be represented in portuguese spelling by the double R = RR which is called a diagraph ( the combination of two letters that represent one single sound), for example in words like barra /'ba.ha/ (bar = steel bar or chocolate bar) , burro /'bu.hu/ (donkey), barriga /ba.'hi:.ga/ (belly).
We have the letter H in portuguese alphabet in many words like homem (man) , honestitade (honesty), hora ( hour), etc. but phonetically it's a silent letter, it doesn't represent any sound in Portuguese just like in English, where in many words the H is silent like, for example, the words hour or honesty.
Para a nossa alegria há este som em português. :D
wow now i know letter R = /h/ sound in portuguese, interesting information
thank you very much! Still waiting for the app, take my money!!!
IT's what we're working on right this moment. The wait won't be long now! Stay tuned :).
Love your channel best!
Wow, thanks!
Tks so much! I love your channel.
Thanks for everything. I love your channel.
+Ursula Domingos Glad to hear that! You're welcome, stay tuned for our new videos!
Thanks 🙏
Just Awesome!
thank you. this is very helpful.
You're welcome!
It's the sound that we make when we warm our hands 🙂
11:29 hello, you said ( Next, we suggest you practice words in which the letter 'h' is actually NOT pronounced.
) is that mean the h silent. Thank you.
Yes, not pronounced means that it's silent.
@@SoundsAmerican great thank you.
Usted si que sabe de lo (h)abla. Thanks for the video :)
very very very well
thank you
+bahey eldeen Glad you liked it! 😊👋
A harsh version of /h/ as in 7:45 sounds similar to Russian sound /х/ .
As usual, thanks for your job!
+Денис Василевский Our narrator tried to reproduce something close to the Russian /x/ to the best of his abilities. 😄 Looks like it worked. Maybe overdoing it a tad. 😊😉
@@SoundsAmerican He coped with this task very well:) To me, it is a good idea to compare wrong and correct pronunciation. It makes easier to see the difference. May I ask how many members is in your team?
+Денис Василевский Thanks, it was a matter of practice, besides it's much easier if you're a speech therapist. 😜
Thanks for your feedback on the typical mistakes part, it always helps us.
About our team, four people worked on this particular video, that's not counting the translators who work on the subtitles.
@@SoundsAmerican Wow, a speech therapist, that's the level! If you ask me, I would make one video about your team which creates such a wonderful product. People should know their heroes. :))
+Денис Василевский Yes, all our videos and the exercises in our videos are recorded by a licensed speech therapist specializing in the General American accent. The best of the best. 😊
5:12 *In English, the /h/ consonant is always followed by a vowel sound.* Is the sound *w* exception? Like in the word *why* [ hwai ] or *white* [ hwait ]. Thanks for this video!
Wait, in the word *hew* the *h* consonant is followed by the sound *j*...
+Unknown User Guys, let's not make things more complicated than they are 😊. In American English, if there's the /h/ sound in a word, there's always a vowel sound after it. Please note that there's no /h/ in words "why" and "white."
+Unknown User Good catch! Linguists consider the /j/ a semi-vowel.
3:27 making the sound
that is a good video pronuntation, also it is a good app. I would like to install in my computer or my phone, please sent me the link to download it.
+Edward Mancebo Glad you liked our video! We use our own app which we haven't released to the public yet. We're working to make it happen soon and will announce the release on this channel. Please stay tuned!
Thank you guys!
Can't wait to see what you bring in the next video!😍👌🏻
+Jonathan Andrade You're welcome! The next video *SPOILER ALERT!* will be on the /tʃ/ sound. 😉🖖
hi...what is name off this website? pls answer me ....thanks
We don't have a website just yet, but we will soon. Stay tuned!
Thanks for the lesson _ it is really helpful ... is there any difference in pronouncing / dʒ / and this sound / ʒ / only ....
+Elwin Harahap Yes, there is. The /ʒ/ is a fricative sound, to make it you have to let the air out through a narrow passage in your mouth. The /dʒ/ is an affricate sound, to make it, you first need to stop the air and make the /d/ sound and immediately after that release the air, making the /ʒ/ sound. We'll publish a video about the /dʒ/ sound soon, stay tuned!
@@SoundsAmerican _ Thank you very much ... looking forward to seeing your next videos....
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tks a lot
You are welcome!
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I was checking Dionysus, mikrocosmos and jamais vu's pronunciation so I though might as well learn how to pronounce hone
I didn't even spelled it right
*home
awesome
+ljshamash Glad you liked it!
Hi! How to pronounce the /x/ as in "Chanukah"
THANKS
This is grea.t I'm going to steal it from you thank you :)
What do you mean by "stealing"?
why don't you publish a beta version of the app 😢..... I can't wait for the app 😣
+Sakib Hasan We'll publish when it's ready! Stay tuned :).
Hello, Sounds American! Could you please explain to me why sometimes 'he' doesn't sound the same as 'him'. It is like this [çi] and [him]. I've noticed that recently. These are kind of different sounds.
Hello there! Do your hear this in conversation or in our videos? If possible, could you give a link so that we give it a listen?
@@SoundsAmerican
th-cam.com/video/uOG-4ZjR7ic/w-d-xo.html
1:42 - the first 'hi'
2:58 -> the first time when she says "behind"
3:06 -> 'here'
Am I right?
OK, got it. First of all - awesome attention to detail and you've got a very good ear.
This is definitely the same sound, what you hear is the difference in friction, to be more precise, in where the friction occurs.
The /h/ sound is always affected by the following vowel sound. (th-cam.com/video/dV6At0g4n78/w-d-xo.html)
In "hi" and "behind" the /h/ is followed by the /aɪ/ diphthong, which starts with the low /ɑ/ sound. In "here" the /h/ is followed by the /ɪr/ vowel sound, which starts with the high vowel sound /ɪ/ (or /i/).
It's actually amazing that you heard that difference. 👍
@@SoundsAmerican Thank you so much for your help!
Mil gracias... Tienen sonidos de td
+ Fernelly Jor You're welcome!
Consonant Sound /t/ as in "toy" - th-cam.com/video/mLlotV_0dRI/w-d-xo.html
Consonant Sound /d/ as in "dog" - th-cam.com/video/N73xPe0x79g/w-d-xo.html
Good
Is /h/ is back vowel?
The /h/ sound is not a vowel, it's a fricative consonant.
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Sure 😊 Stay tuned!
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Why it display with Chinese subtitle?
Displays
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Bro, I heard you said /kit/ Instead /hit/. Min 5:36.
Instead of*
جميل.
Neutral position
english : sh in a word ('sh'ed) (fact : shed and szopa is a same word)
poland : sz in a word ('sz'opa)
nothers : ?
english : ch
poland : cz
Please please! Sound America, can you make videos on the homophonic words, by this I mean words like these:
this -----------------------------------> these
hear -----------------------------------> here
there -----------------------------------> their
hard -----------------------------------> heard
had -----------------------------------> had (past, participle etc)
Boar -----------------------------------> Bore
Board -----------------------------------> Bored
Boarder -----------------------------------> Border
Bolder -----------------------------------> Boulder
Bootie -----------------------------------> Booty
Born -----------------------------------> Borne
Burro -----------------------------------> Burrow
Brake -----------------------------------> Break
Brews -----------------------------------> Bruise
Bridal -----------------------------------> Bridle
Broach -----------------------------------> Brooch
But -----------------------------------> Butt
Buy -----------------------------------> Bye
Capital -----------------------------------> Capitol
Carat -----------------------------------> Carrot
Carol -----------------------------------> Carrel
Cast -----------------------------------> Caste
Cede -----------------------------------> Seed
Ceiling -----------------------------------> Sealing
Cell -----------------------------------> Sell
This homophonic words are endless, but I will appreciate if you can really show me how to pronounce this.
+Lagu Stephen We already have a video about homophones, here's the link: th-cam.com/video/lrewt5USFk0/w-d-xo.html
BTW, there are some pairs in your list that are not homophones, can you guess which ones?
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really excellent,thank you very much
Glad you liked it!