Pronunciation Lab

Practise with trustworthy examples. Reviewed audio is used where it is available. On other items, you can still record, listen back and retry. Pronunciation feedback appears only where this lab has a reviewed feedback check.

See · feel · keep the airflow continuous

Keep the tongue at the teeth and let the voice continue through /ð/

For /ð/, place the tongue lightly at or just between the teeth and keep voiced airflow moving continuously. /d/ may feel tempting because it is also voiced, but /d/ uses a complete alveolar closure and release. In this lab /d/ is an awareness cue only, not a scored target.

Voiced dental fricative/ð/

Schematic target articulation. It is not a measurement of the learner's mouth.

Place: dental
Manner: fricative
Tongue tip: lightly at or between teeth
Airflow: continuous oral
Voice: voiced

What you are hearing: these short clips come from the reviewed sentence at the end of this lab. Use them as context examples for the sound.