Clarify Your Consonant Sounds
This is the 7th video of Speak Global English series. There are all together 22 video in the series. In the seventh video, Hansen talks about clarifying consonant sounds. Let's see what she has to say in this video.
This is the 7th video of Speak Global English series. There are all together 22 video in the series. In the seventh video, Hansen talks about clarifying consonant sounds. Let's see what she has to say in this video.
Clarify Your Consonant Sounds:
Speak Global English Video Series
Part 7:
Clarifying Your Consonants
In order to be understood by everyone, everywhere, every time you speak, you need to make sure that your consonant sounds are clear.
What are consonants? Well, everything other than the vowels! And what are the vowels? A-E-I-O-U (and sometimes Y). So r
ight now we're talking about everything else. Every consonant sound needs to be unique. That means that Rs cannot sound like Ls, Vs cannot sound like Ws, Bs and Ps, Ds and Ts, Gs and Ks -- they all need to have their own sounds.
Many consonants sounds get confused because we use our voices incorrectly. It's true! Think about the sounds for P and B. We make them in almost identical ways. The only difference is that we use our voice to make the B sound, whereas we have no voice, but a lot of air, when we make the P sound: /p/ and /b/
There are many more pairs like this: T and D, K and G, S and Z, F and V, plus the sounds ZH and SH, J and CH, and the THs DH and TH.
So be careful when and how you use your voice, and keep your consonants clear and unique.
In order to be understood by everyone, everywhere, every time you speak, you need to make sure that your consonant sounds are clear.
What are consonants? Well, everything other than the vowels! And what are the vowels? A-E-I-O-U (and sometimes Y). So r
ight now we're talking about everything else. Every consonant sound needs to be unique. That means that Rs cannot sound like Ls, Vs cannot sound like Ws, Bs and Ps, Ds and Ts, Gs and Ks -- they all need to have their own sounds.
Many consonants sounds get confused because we use our voices incorrectly. It's true! Think about the sounds for P and B. We make them in almost identical ways. The only difference is that we use our voice to make the B sound, whereas we have no voice, but a lot of air, when we make the P sound: /p/ and /b/
There are many more pairs like this: T and D, K and G, S and Z, F and V, plus the sounds ZH and SH, J and CH, and the THs DH and TH.
So be careful when and how you use your voice, and keep your consonants clear and unique.
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