#360 English Pronunciation Practice: The TH Sound

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Georgiana

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 536 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today, we'll practice one of the trickiest sounds in English: the TH sound.

Actually, English has two TH sounds:

The voiceless /θ/, like in think, thank, thirty.
The voiced /ð/, like in this, that, brother.

Many students replace them with t, d, s, or z. For example:

They say tank you instead of thank you.
Or zis instead of this.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Georgiana, and I'm back with a new episode of the Speak English Now podcast,
0:09.0	the podcast that helps you speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks.
0:17.5	Today we'll practice one of the trickiest sounds in English, the TH sound.
0:24.4	Actually, English has two TH sounds.
0:29.8	The voiceless th, like in think, thank, 30, and the voiced, th, like this, 30, and the voiced,
0:38.1	like this, that, or brother.
0:44.4	Many students replace them with T, D, S or Z.
0:50.9	For example, they say thank you instead of thank you.
0:57.1	Or this instead of this.
1:02.8	So today we'll practice with word pairs, tongue twisters, and then a mini story.
1:10.3	Let's go.
1:12.1	Let's start with word pairs.
1:15.3	Listen and repeat.
1:18.3	Think.
1:20.4	Sink.
1:22.4	Three.
1:23.8	Tree.
1:25.8	Thank.
1:27.4	Tank. Thin. Thank. Tank.
1:29.4	Thin.
1:30.9	Tin.
1:32.9	Thick.
	...

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