How to Pronounce TH | The ULTIMATE Guide for English Learners!

This is the ULTIMATE Pronunciation Guide for the TH sounds in English! (Yes, soundS... Because there are two!) In this lesson, I'll be sharing some super tips so you know when to use the voiced and voiceless sounds, improve your pronunciation skills; express yourself clearly in conversation; and ultimately, give you more confidence to speak in English!
Although the TH sounds are difficult for English learners, in this lesson, I'll break it down for you... I promise you lots of pronunciation tips and practical ways to improve your TH pronunciation! Let's do it!

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PRONUNCIATION: My video lessons are created to help English learners to improve their pronunciation and speaking skills. Please note that the pronunciation of some of these words differs between English accents. I speak with an Australian English accent 🙂

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00:00 Introduction
00:57 Why this is important
01:48 Th tongue position
02:55 Voiced and unvoiced th
03:51 When to use voiced or unvoiced sound
04:34 Unvoiced th sound
05:51 Voiced th sound
07:38 Th sound exceptions
08:10 Th practice

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[kbrg_]

First I cried when I saw all the English tenses now I'm crying because of the th pronunciation

[TheBobes]

Avoiding saying "th" sounds actually made me better in English because I had to think of different ways & learn new words to say what I wanted, lol.

[shehanthafernando]

I think I thought that everyone will be thankful to this teacher for these worthy theories.god bless you

[sopsop]

Normal pp: "Thanks for that"
Me: fanks for dat

[EDEN-opho]

this is the beginning of a new life for me, seriously.

[Agnes-redrose]

Hi Emma, You are a great teacher. My example of tongue twisters are: 'Nothing is worth thousands of deaths' or 'Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month'. Best wishes.

[Geri]

Finally a native english teacher who 1. Realized it is important to speak about and 2. Also gives a perfect and thoroughly explanation. Thank you very much Emma!

[kidzumasstudio]

1:52 position of a tongue
3:12 voiced th
3:29 unvoiced th
4:44 usage of unvoiced th
5:52 usage of voiced th

[David-]

I used to just “feory” and “mouf” all the time and “finking” my pronunciation is enough accurate... also “dis”, “dat”, “de”, “dose”...

[beckai.]

When I'm practising the TH sounds I sound like a person with a lisp🙄

[casparrr]

zanks for ze great help. zese zhings don't usually help me ze way i want zem to, but great job!

[King_Murkey]

For the ones who keep coming back to practice
The words: 5:00
The sentences: 8:15

[vali]

Very informative. 'Th' is the only sound I have trouble pronouncing, even though I've reached fluency more than 5 years ago. However I don't speak it that much because there's no one for me to speak to. But I have tried for so long to get the sound right, always trying the way my highschool teacher showed when it came to tongue position but I was actually just making the 't' sound because my tongue was up and behind my teeth. Now at least I know how to do it properly and even managed to get it right a few times so I'm extremely grateful to this short video.

[littlelaker]

Hi Emma, Everything is so great about your videos and your presentation - very professional, and thorough. I would like to make a suggestion as a fellow teacher that might tie up the distinction between the two sounds and allow your students to target the difference between them. In your final practice period, in the text area of your screen, you could annotate which words are using the voiced or unvoiced "th" by placing that IPA character below the associated "th".

[shion]

I feel like I pronounce single words with th correctly, but if I have to speak fast it's just impossible and my tongue twists

[MultiSuperfluous]

Three thin thieves thought through thoroughly Thursday through Sunday

[willowvaughan]

Thank you Emma!!! I’ve been trying to learn how to pronounce this for years! A lot of times people used to ask me to repeat what I said because I was pronouncing it sooo wrong. Now people actually understand what I mean 😂!

[RickbondLHP]

Ohhhh...it's so difficult! I must practice a lot

[az]

The least thing I have ever expected in my life is going back to relearn how to do the "th" sound.

[violetabaldomar]

I think this video is thrilling. Therefore I watched it thousands of times this month. The teacher is the most excellent on earth. I love her method and I'm very thankful to her 🤗💜