The /ʤ/ sound

The /ʤ/ is a sound from the ‘Consonants Pairs’ group and it is called the ‘Voiced 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 /ʤ/ sound is made through the mouth and it is Voiced which means that you vibrate 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 whilst voicing out.

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 26 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.

[evrenyaman]

I like your videos. I am an English teacher. They're very useful for my lessons. Please do not delete any of them :)

[khalidgoumih]

I like your style of teaching, thanks

[dileepa]

Thanks you very much.
This is the only youtube channel that I'v ever found with complete descriptions of what IPA char is.

[lyrisea]

Thanks for the video! This helped me in my linguistics course because I could never remember what that symbol was. :)

[misterio]

Thanks a lot for share this important knowledge!

[danielul]

Excellent, thank you so much. So little information on this. I (romanian) have a speech issue where i say t͡ɬ or d͡ɮ (apparently called Voiced alveolar lateral affricates) instead of /ʤ/, t͡ʃ (apparently called Voiceless palato-alveolar affricates) or instead of Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricates and this video cleared so much for me.

[TaiLe-drve]

When the 'dʒ' at the end of word, i hear many native English speakers didn't vibrate vocal cords (not voiced sound)? Could you explain more about this one? Thanks!

[ramzy-]

thank you for amazing video,
a lot of tutors said when you produce the /dʒ/ sound you have to make 2 sounds the /d/ in Alveolar then move the tongue to post-Alveolar/ʒ/sound but i think you said the /dʒ/ sound produce in the same place post-Alveolar just arch the tongue or laminal tongue

[markz]

Still very usefull I guess It will always be. Thanks

[rennawibuuwu]

Thanks! Thanks to this lesson, I can pronounce!

[mahnoorali]

but what about the simple j --- jug? How we can have an idea when to use the simple consonant j and when the other one?

[studionl]

In the words 'college' and 'message' for instance, it doesn't sound voiced.
When you conjugate English verbs in Dutch, one needs to know if it's voiced or not.
'To image a computer'; is 'image' also doesn't sound voiced. Should it 'officially' be voiced or not?

[pepethesquishydog]

lol. i appreciate this for my spanish linguistics class lol. thanks

[hungphamtuan]

i see that the ''d3'' sound is very difficult.i have to practice more time.Thanks for your lession! :)

[Yurnahe]

I don't have this three and a d find I can't find the upside down e because it's disappeared ¾
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[evanwhite]

1:35 these subtitles said "as in the words:" twice

[SuperBee]

Long: ɑː iː uː ɔː ɜː
Short: æ ɪ ʊ ɒ ə

[santiagonahuel]

When this phoneme is at the end of a word it sounds voiceless

[mahnoorali]

i mean there are two j sounds like j --jug and the other d3 --- gin, both are having j sond but different symbol. So how we can know which symbol we are supposed to use at what time?

[emaneldemerdash]

why sometimes gi and ge make the sound /g3/ and sometimes make the sound /g/ ? as in gig - gep