🎉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 /dʒ/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_dzh_as_in_job
This is by far the most complicated sound I've ever encountered, but I could utter this one with ease after watching this amazing video of yours Keep up your great work!
It blew my mind how much easier the exercise was the second time around. I needed this video because my name is Jenny and even though people in my native language always understand it correctly, I realised that foreigners think I'm saying Denny. I hope this video actually helps me fix it with some practice.
I've been looking for this sound my whole life. 95% of people mispronounce my first name, and I've tried various phonetic spellings until bumping into this sound. I'm in the 16% of g, so lucky me. Thanks for this lesson.
it's weird that you don't have a web page yet. your videos are amazing. I'll be teaching pronunciation in my country and i will use them a lot with the students that I'll have in my class.
Glad you found our videos useful! Let us know if your students like them. We'd love to get their feedback. About a web page - that's work in progress. Stay tuned!
Thanks a lot. I'm Vietnamese, I'm 10 years old and I very like learning English. You gave me an interesting knowledge and it very useful for me. By watching your video, I can improve my pronunciation and I can learn more vocabulary. I hope you can make more good and useful video like this.
Thank you, we're very glad you like our videos. We have more than 70 videos on our channel and a number of them can help you learn to pronounce most frequent and useful words for everyday life. Sure, we're going to make a lot of new videos too! Let us know if you have any questions about pronunciation!
I have seen so many videos, but yours are so far the very best. I truly believe that there is no other video out there that can make it any easier. Now it's up to me to practice. I am practicing and every time it's getting easier.😀 I watch each video like five times in a row Thank you so much for your time and let The Lord Jesus bless you.
Excellent teaching video!!! (I teach English to Spanish-speakers and tutor reading for elementary children just learning to read.) Some of the other videos I found that offer guidance on pronouncing the 'j' sound were helpful, but this one is by far the best. [One small critique, however: In reciting your tongue twister the speaker does not pronounce the 'j-d' sound at the end of the word "changed," so sounds like "change"; and as you undoubtedly know, it's so important for listeners to hear the 'd' sound (sometimes better sounded as a light 't') at the end of a past-tense verb, even if it's just a light touch.]
Thank you! We're glad to hear that they are helpful for teachers. Regarding the "changed" pronunciation in the tongue twister - we might have overdone it while doing the sound processing, that's why the final sounds may seem weird.
@@SoundsAmerican Thanks for the explanation. My point was a small one, and in the end, it is the overall excellent quality of your teaching video that counts. The sound of the speaker's voice and his pronunciation are clear and precise. This video is going to help a lot of people. Kudos!
You’re so amazing and excellent. I have to comment to say how grateful I really really am. I always check video from your channel when I can’t pronounce any words. Thank you again!!!!!!!!
Thank you. It is slightly confusing with the 'tf' sound at the end of words but with the help of your videos, we will succeed on pronuncing this sound. Thanks again, I appreciate it.
in this sound I not only learned to use this sound well but I also corrected and better understood other sounds that I had already learned are Sh, Ch and Zh, Thank you so much
+stella9caro7 We certainly wish you good luck! If we may offer unsolicited advice -before the exam close RU-vid (even our videos) and get as much sleep as possible! 😊👋 P.S. Keep us posted on the exam results!
I appreciate so much this wonderful tool to improve my pronunciation in English and exactly my american accent. Congratulations for your channel and I have no words to describe how useful it is.
Thank you, we're very glad you found our channel useful! By the way, we also have a website with tons of information on pronunciation. Check it out, chances are you'll find it useful too: soundsamerican.net/
Glad that our videos were helpful! Yes, we plan to resume making and posting videos soon. In the meanwhile, you can find lots of interesting stuff on our Community page here on this channel: ru-vid.com/show-UC-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDgcommunity
You're very welcome! BTW, we also have a website with tons of info on pronunciation and exercises, check it out if you're interested: soundsamerican.net/
Perfect video. Now, I understand that I was very wrong. Because I thought: Yes and Job have the same initial sound. But, no. They are 2 different consonants. .... Thanks!!!
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Please make a vid on silent letters that are silent only in American English, such as the letter N in the word interview, the N in the word winter and so on. Would be great to have a comprehensive list of words with the silent N, something like "top 200" and whatnot.
+Cosmic Disco Thank you for your suggestion. We'll consider it. Just a note here, the letter 'n' in the words "interview" or "winter" is not silent, it's pronounced. You may have meant the letter 't'.
Thank you for this lesson. Besides, I noticed both English affricates sometimes appear between adjacent words such as "want you" ˈwɑntʃə/ and "would you" /ˈwʊdʒə/."
Dear Sounds American, Thank you very much for the lesson, another awesome crafted video from your side _ wish you a happy and prosperous new year ahead ... Regards, Elwin.
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I love your videos. They are the most adequate videos that I can find to study sounds. But it's quite hard for me to notice the sound and get used to it. I hope you can say each single sound more times than you did in the videos - maybe 1 minute for that before you move to other explanations or the part that combines the sounds with other letters (because I learn sounds by imagining how native speakers sound and then imitate, so when I hear it with other letters/explanations, it interrupts my imagination) Thanks for your lessons. You did a very great job :3
+Julio Samuel dos Santos They are and there are a lot of them. They make English pronunciation tricky. BTW, we have a playlist of all vowel sounds, if you want to practice them, check it out: ru-vid.com/group/PLYJV5Moz9cfywp0M0q4o0ukyWcYAgEQ5_
Thank you! This video is really helpful. Can I ask you a question? As a Korean, I'm not sure if I understand the pronunciation. Sometimes, [dʒ] sounds like [tʃ], when it is at the end of words. and When I heard some examples like "church" and "judge", their last pronunciations also sound like the same to me. It's really difficult for me. If [dʒ] sound is at the end of a word, is it pronounced like unvoiced ? I've really spent lots of time to understand the difference between them. Please let me know how to pronounce exactly. Thank you
Don't worry, the /dʒ/ sound is very hard for most Korean speakers. Here are our tips: 1) Americans never devoice consonant sounds, meaning they never pronounce /dʒ/ as /tʃ/ 2) Americans never substitute /dʒ/ with /ɡ/ 3) The most common spellings for the /tʃ/ sound are 'CH', 'T', and 'TCH' 4) The most common spellings for the /dʒ/ sound are 'G', 'J', and 'DG' 5) The only way to master any foreign sound is to practice it a lot. soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_ch_as_in_chair - soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_dzh_as_in_job
+Денис Василевский Can you provide a couple of examples, please? We can't think of any *native* Russian words in which these two letters go together. BTW, we believe that in Russian, these are two sounds /д/ and /ж/ and not a single phoneme. (In case you're interested, here's an excellent resource listing all sounds in all languages: phoible.org/parameters/C7364BE7F76504D8DE329FFF30C42424#2/33.8/153.0 )
@@SoundsAmerican This time I spoke about Belarusian (not Russian) language. We have two state languages Russian and Belarusian in Belarus. Unfortunately, I'm not a linguist but let's try to figure out. There are two different sounds \d̠ʒ\ and \ɖʐ\ in IPA. The first one occurs in English and the second one in Belarusian. The difference in sounding is hard to notice.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_retroflex_affricate ). You can find live pronunciation of Belarusian "дж" , for instance, here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NjoY8lr8goU.html at 1:21. Concerning Russian language, there are few borrowed words where you can find sound similar to \d̠ʒ\. For example, "джинсы" (jeans), "джем" (jam).
+Денис Василевский Yes, the Belarussian /ɖʐ/ is very similar to the American /dʒ/! We are able to hear the difference, but it is indeed hard to notice. About the Russian language, Wikipedia insists that the same sound /ɖʐ/ is the one used in the word "джем," and they do sound very similar. The only concern is that it doesn't seem like the native Russian sound, now we feel the urge to learn more about the history of Russian (and Belarussian 😉) phonetics :). This is some cool nerdy stuff, isn't it? :)
@@SoundsAmerican Yes it is! I'm quite inquisitive guy and it is interesting to me to learn about of peculiarities and underwater rocks of the languages, although, my occupation is electronics.)) Seems so, I can distinguish the difference between /dʒ/ and /ɖʐ/ after this research. The /dʒ/ sounds more solid (joint) to me while in the /ɖʐ/ /d/-part is more noticeable. Although, a language is very fluid conception and hardly every native speaks exactly as it is stated in Wikipedia or IPA sources.)) Feel free to ask about Russian or Belarusian If you wish! It's free.))
@@SoundsAmerican He's right, the /dʒ/ sound exists in the Russian language, the only difference is that it's pronounced without a puff of air at the beginning of the words due to the fact that in the Russian language both the /t/ and the /d/ sounds are pronounced without any puffs of air. The sound /tʃ/, however, has a voiceless counterpart in the Russian language, it's called the /ч/ sound.
Hi guys, I am really greatful with your professional work, it has been helping me a lot! I got a doubt, during my daily practice in this channel, speceally in this episode, I could notice something, It's me or it changes when I have to use dʒ at the beginning for example "jaw" just....on the other hand words such as page or change it sounds like SH or CH, for me this is tricky haha and confusing, due to it is located at the end and I feel like it is not the same sounds like at the begining, greetings from Costa Rica
