The /ʧ/ Sound

• published: 10 Oct 2014
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This is the /ʧ/ sound from the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is a sound from the ‘Consonants Pairs’ group and it is called ‘Voiceless palato- alveolar affricate’. This means that you create friction by first stop the airflow with your tongue and the ridge behind your teeth, then release it through a narrow gap. The /ʧ/ sound is made through the mouth and it is Unvoiced which means that you don't use your vocal chords to make the sound. It is defined by shape of you lips and the position of your tongue and it is an affricate, which is a sound made by closing the air flow but then opening it by forcing air through a narrow space. In this case it is the tip of your tongue that creates the narrow space between it and the ridge behind the top teeth To produce the sound touch your tongue to that ridge lightly and allow air pressure to force the tongue down opening the airway.Book a class now. http://goo.gl/n3zg60 Follow us on Twitter. @Eng_Lang_Club http://goo.gl/GoP5zM Like us on Facebook. http://goo.gl/Ny192C Join us on Google+. http://goo.gl/FuQw5E http://www.EnglishLanguageClub.co.uk This video is part of our series on phonetics and pronunciation for learners of English as a foreign language. Phonetics is the science of pronunciation. It can be helpful for people learning English because one of the most difficult things about the language is the spelling and pronunciation. English is not very phonetic and as a result the same letters are often pronounced in many different ways in different words. The IPA helps by providing a way to write words as they are pronounced. The normal alphabet only has 24 characters but there are 44 different sounds that are used to pronounce words. As well as that, most word in English originate from other languages like Greek, Latin and French to name just a few and in many cases the the language of origin influences how the word is pronounced. The IPA provides a symbol (phoneme) for each sound so the correct pronunciation can be written or printed in dictionaries. This video along with the others in our pronunciation series helps language learners to hear the correct pronunciation and also to know how to produce the sound of each phoneme. If you would like to book a class with one of our teacher, you can book a class through our website.