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they think that there are three on the

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13th

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what

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welcome back to lingoni English my

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name's Brian

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and in this video we're going to talk

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about the letter combination th

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now this is something that people from

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other languages like to make jokes about

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sometimes maybe being in English class

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and having the teacher really try to

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teach you the sound

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so let's talk a little bit about it

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so to talk about this sound and how you

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make it there are some important words

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to know first these are your teeth

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and then this

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is your tongue so teeth

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tongue

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now th in English has two different

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pronunciations that are very similar to

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each other they're close in

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pronunciation

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foreign

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the first one you can see the symbol for

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right here

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and it's

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now how do we make this sound

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well all you do is you put your tongue

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between your teeth

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and blow air through so you can see my

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tongue

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and then I'm blowing air through

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words that have this sound in it are for

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example

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think

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and three

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three

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now when you say this word you can show

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your tongue so like

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think and you can see my tongue a lot

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normally when I speak

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if I'm speaking strongly or exaggerating

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I'll say think and you can see my tongue

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but typically if these are my teeth here

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I take my tongue and I put it here so

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just about touching

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and I blow air through

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so you can stick your tongue out and say

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or it can touch your teeth like this

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three

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think

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that's probably more common and maybe

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easier to do or not

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all right let's do a little practice

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here are three words with the sound go

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ahead and try saying them here's the

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first one

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this is said

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thing

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like something

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now try saying this word

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this is fourth

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fourth

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and lastly this one

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with

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with

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all right so we've looked at the first

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sound that th makes what's the second

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sound

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well the other sound that it normally

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makes is kind of the same except for we

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use our vocal cords vocal cords or voice

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to pronounce the sound

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so put your tongue in a similar place

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and you're going to say

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so again your tongue is between your

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teeth or just touching the upper teeth

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and then you're going to use your vocal

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cords and go

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now some words with the sound are

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this

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this

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them

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them

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and that

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that

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why don't you try practicing some more

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words with these sounds in them

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give this one a try

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these

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these

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what about this one

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weather

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weather

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and lastly

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brother

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and now of course we have to ask the

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question

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how do we know if you say th

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without your voice

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or

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using your voice

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well I'm sorry there's no perfect rule

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to know how you say th voiced or

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unvoiced

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it's just one of those things that

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you're going to have to learn and

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practice over time

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like with the pronunciation of many

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words in English

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however there is one pattern that's

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pretty common that can help you

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and that is that words that end in th

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are usually pronounced with the

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sound so not using the voice

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we saw some examples of that already in

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this lesson

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let's look at some more words

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an example would be when we say dates so

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for example April 5th

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April 5th

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or June 10th

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June 10th

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both of these have the F sound

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other examples include with

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math

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month

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and birth

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so there you have it how to pronounce

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the th sound in English thanks for

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