Comments on: The Sounds of English (R vs L) (S vs TH)

By: Devon

Devon — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:14:54 +0000

I think another difficult sound to teach would be /g/ as in ‘guh’. This requires raising the back of the tongue as well as placing the tip on the roof of the mouth. A difficult concept to explain to someone – raise the back of your tongue – perhaps begin by teaching them to growl…… grrrrrr. Ask the question “How would an angry dog sound?”

By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:16:44 +0000

I watch online lessons from a teacher of an Asian language. The teacher has trouble pronouncing three. I am a native speaker of American English. When I say three, I start pronouncing THREE with the tip of my tongue against most or all of the back of my front teeth. When I look at the diagrams above for TH and R, I don’t see the connection between the position of the tongue between the teeth for TH and the tip of the tongue behind the teeth at the base of the mouth for R to make the THR sound. The teacher seems to say THWEE for THREE (and TWEHS for tres in Spanish) and has no trouble correctly pronouncing TRUMP.

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:36:06 +0000

Hi, how are you, I do have a question, I started teaching, six years ago, and I am looking for a way to help Spanish speakers to pronounce would correctly, as they tend to articulate it “Gould”
The only way I could think of is to ask the students what sound a dog makes when he barks, wu wu.. ok, great, that is how would is pronounced!
Do you have a better way to help them?
Thanks a lot for your reply,
Best regards,
Carol

By: allesl

allesl — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:08:08 +0000

In reply to Manon. Hi Manon, I apologize but I don't have it in PDF format

By: Manon

Manon — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 03:37:20 +0000

Hello, I teach English in a Latin american country, I found this to be very useful material. It would be useful to Have these diagrams in a chart format to maybe give away. I might even be able to translate the explanation for each sound. Other useful diagrams in this language in particular are the y, and j sound. I know it isn’t necessarily something you might do but if you are willing it would be wonderful to have these diagrams in a downloadable pdf format.