Hi again and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy, and this is our 185th episode.

Before I begin, let me remind you that you can find the transcripts for this and all of our episodes

by going to www.prenuncian.com slash podcast.

Also, I'll link to the free lessons associated with this episode from this episode's transcript

page.

Two episodes ago, I talked about the SH sound.

Then in our last episode, I told you how the SH sound relates to the ZH sound.

Today, I'm going to continue down this line of related sounds by moving on to the J sound. The J sound is pronounced j and is the beginning sound of the word jump. Just like the S-H sound and Z-H sound, the J-sound is the same

in an American accent or a British accent. I hope you remember that

the S-H sound and Z-H sound were fricatives. That means they are created by causing friction

in the vocal tract. Also, their continuous sounds that can be held for a long time.

I also explained that the S-H sound is unvoiced, meaning the vocal cords don't vibrate during

the sound, and the Z-H sound is voiced, meaning that the vocal cords do vibrate during the

sound. Let's review the Z ZH sound from our last episode.

The ZH sound is created with the front of the tongue somewhat flat toward the back of the tooth ridge.

The air passes in a flat stream between the front of the tongue and the back of the tooth ridge.

It sounds like,

Z.

Say that sound after me?

ZH.

Since the ZH sound is a continuous consonant, I can hold it for a long time.

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