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

If you are new to this podcast, my name is Mandy.

Today I'm going to review all the sounds we've talked about so far.

Of the 43 sounds we teach at Seattle Learning

Academy, I've taught 33 of them so far. If you've been listening since the beginning,

I hope this will remind you of any sounds you want to go back to and practice some more.

If you haven't heard all the podcasts from the beginning yet, this

will be a good one to listen to so you can decide which ones you might like to go back

and listen to. The transcripts for this show will have links to all the sounds we've covered.

Sounds are divided into the major categories of consonant sounds and vowel sounds.

Let's talk first about the consonant sounds and their categories.

I've put a chart along with the transcripts to this show to make it easier to understand all the categories of sound.

The voiced TH and unvoiced TH, the F sound, V sound, S-H sound, S-H sound, Z-H sound, S-sound, and Z-S-Sound are fricatives.

The only fricative I haven't talked about yet is the H sound.

I did talk a little about the H sound in podcast number 16, reduced pronouns. A fricative is a continuous sound that is created by allowing

only a small amount of air to leave the mouth, which causes friction and sound. Except for the H sound, all of the fricatives have

voiced and unvoiced counterparts. A voiced sound uses our vocal cords along with the shape of the

vocal tract to produce the sound. An unvoiced sound only uses the vocal tract to create the sound.

Here are just the voiced fricative sounds.

Voiced T-H.

V.

V-s-S-H-Sound.

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