How to Breathe Sounds Out in American English + Linking + T/P/K Hack
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Today, we're talking about how to use your breath like an American native speaker to help you sound more natural and to be better understood by others. This is extremely important for the voiceless stop consonants (T/P/K), but applies to all sounds in the language. In addition, this is extremely important for proper linking, and even just flowing from sound to sound inside of words. Learn more in today's natural American English pronunciation lesson from English Hacks!
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What you'll learn + Intro: (0:00)
Breathing sounds out?: (0:48)
Big Tip! Notice and Compare: (1:46)
Hack for T/P/K: (2:19)
For voiced versions (D/B/G): (5:48)
Not just sound placement, but flowing between sounds: (6:24)
Linking and Breath: (7:04)
Example 1: I want to go to the beach: (7:14)
Grammar and Vocab mess you up: (7:44)
Example 2: Pick it up right now: (8:37)
S/F Examples (non-stops sounds): (11:05)
Putting it all together: (13:29)
Tip: Control your breath: (13:54)
Tip: It's like your singing: (15:11)
Outro + Up Next: (15:46)
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soooo nice
this explanation helps a ton for japanese speakers! we japanese have this breath out words problem
Recently, I've been wondering why my "perfect" isn't perfect. And now I know :D
great video
Great video!
This is actually waaaayyyy more important than a lot of people might think. It's one of those things where you nail almost every sound, stress and intonation are pretty much “on fleek” and yet something just doesn't sound right and, more often than not, you can't even pinpoint exactly what that “something” is.
Also, this is so serendipitous because I've just recently noticed that the way I use my breath when I speak English, coupled with the fact that I don't open my throat enough, makes my voice sound strained and unnatural, plus it affects some sounds like the final /d/ which tends to be devoiced.
This realization lead me to the idea of “breathing through words” as I speak, which is definitely going to require some practice and some getting used to, since it's also dawned on me that I breathe very little when I speak Portuguese as well. That said, It doesn't necessarily seem to me that it has to do with my dialect of Portuguese. I think it's just the way I personally tend to speak, i.e it's a bad speech habit of mine that I should overcome. So a nice corollary to working on this aspect is that I'll improve my spoken Portuguese too.😁
Plus, the idea of “thinking of singing” is a great one.
Thanks for the video🙏. I'll keep coming back to it as I practice.
Funny how things coincide like that, eh? 😀
I've been waiting for a video like this. Thank you a lot for the video. Stop T / D, Glotta T / D, all are not easy for people to do I believe. Can vs Can't ("can't" is a hard one) is a hard one too. Do natives also find it difficult to distinguish between those words sometimes?
Can you possibly make a video regarding Stop T / D, Glotta T / D in the near future?
Also, one more question. How strongly(?) do you push your tongue to the roof of the mouth when making T/D? Plus, should the tongue be relaxed, kind of like jello(?) when making sounds except for sounds such as L and R?
Already planned it next 🙂
Can and can't can be a problem for us from time to time, but not usually
Just enough to block the air for a moment. You shouldn't be pushing really hard, or even pushing at all. As for other sounds, no. It depends on the sound and the shape that's needed. If your tongue is like jello you'd probably be making some kind of vowel
@@NativeEnglishHacks Thank you for giving me the answers that I have been looking for for a long time. Does that mean your tongue shouldn't push hard or even push at all for all sounds? Also, one more question related to that, if you don't mind. Does the width(?) or your tongue gets narrowed when making L/Colored R/ G/K sounds?
I want to see you make those sounds in person, so I might have to throw the same questions in the next QNA. However, it would be greatly appreciated if you could answer them in writing now so that I can have some ideas of it before the next QNA.
@@NativeEnglishHacks "can't" wait!
Hi Josh,
I am back!. I had some personal matters. I have a question.
Any tips to make Held T and D more easily, plz? I Hurt Vs. I heard, for example. I do know the vocal cords vibrate when making the D sound. But, I feel like the vocal cords also vibrate when making the T sound. Do the vocal cords vibrate greater when making the D sound?
Do natives sometimes get confused between them too?
Thank you.
We might sometimes get confused, but not usually. There's no vibration for the T. If there were, it would be a D. The held T causes a quick cut off of the sound before it. If that sound is voiced, then the voice will quickly stop. If it's a held D, the sound before it will not seem to quickly cut off. Technically, the held T is not even a sound, but just the quick stopping of the sound before it by ending in the T position.
@@NativeEnglishHacks
Thank you for your reply. Do you think you can still sound natural using the weak aspirated sounds for words ending with T or D (ed. d etc)?
@@John2corner to clarify, there is no "weak aspirated". Aspirated means it's strong, unaspirated means it's weak.
If you do it all the time, it won't sound natural. We tend to do it while enunciating at least a little bit, but it's always possible it might just come out like that. I'd say at least 65% of the time it shouldn't be like that, so more often than not
0:40 how do you pronounce " where I"?
"Where" can be reduced more or less to "were" in lazy and/or faster speech, which is what I did here (without realizing it). Note that "I" is commonly pronounced with just the start of the diphthong or 3/4 of the diphthong.