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Problems with /th/ #1 (permalink) Sat Jul 04, 2009 21:16 pm   Problems with /th/		  
Hello!
So, I have a problem with this sound. The matter is that I know to pronounce it well, but when I'm talking I simply forgot to say th and I say t. How to influence on my brain Smile to say th? Because when I was little and while I was learning English my teacher was bad and he was saying t. And now I'm used to it and I don't know how to stop saying it.

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Problems with /th/ #2 (permalink) Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:48 pm   Problems with /th/		  
I know that many hearing non english-speaking people have difficulties with that sound. Hard of hearing people have difficulties with the voiceless S sound instead. Maybe hearing non english-speaking people are afraid of showing their tounge when they speak. Smile Many hard of hearing people finds that sound very easy to say.
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Problems with /th/ #3 (permalink) Sun Jul 05, 2009 13:24 pm   Problems with /th/		  

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Hi Turtle,

Try repeating this again and again:

The thief thought that the thing threaded through the thicket.

When you make this sound (th) press the tip of your tongue against the back of your top teeth.

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Problems with /th/ #4 (permalink) Sun Jul 05, 2009 13:38 pm   Problems with /th/		  
Alan wrote:
Hi Turtle,

Try repeating this again and again:

The thief thought that the thing threaded through the thicket.

When you make this sound (th) press the tip of your tongue against the back of your top teeth.

Alan

I couldn't download this file Sad That was not an MP3-file... I find it difficult to listen from loadspeaker. I listen to English with my discman and a loop.
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Problems with /th/ #5 (permalink) Sun Jul 05, 2009 13:42 pm   Problems with /th/		  
Turtle wrote:
Hello!
So, I have a problem with this sound. The matter is that I know to pronounce it well, but when I'm talking I simply forgot to say th and I say t. How to influence on my brain Smile to say th? Because when I was little and while I was learning English my teacher was bad and he was saying t. And now I'm used to it and I don't know how to stop saying it.

Thanks Wink

It's a difference between ting and thing...
/Maria
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Problems with /th/ #6 (permalink) Sat Jul 11, 2009 16:20 pm   Problems with /th/		  
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When you make this sound (th) press the tip of your tongue against the back of your top teeth.

Alan

If she does like that it will be a T-sound..
She must put her tougue between her teeth. Maybe hearing non-English speaking people are afraid of showing their tounge when they speak that's why they can't pronounce it well.
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