Designed by: Marlene Villegas
Treasure
Practice
1. Tonguetwisters
2. Sentences to practice
3. Recomendation.
Television
Minimal pairs
Common Problems for non-native speakers
Conlcusion /kənˈkluːʒn/
Television /ˈtelɪvɪʒn/
Casual /ˈkæʒuəl/
Visual /ˈvɪʒuəl/
Measure /ˈmeʒər/
Vision /ˈvɪʒn/
Treasure /ˈtreʒər/
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To produce the sound Clench your teeth together lightly and pull your tongue away from them. Then push air though them, whilst voicing out.
How to Pronounce it.
The ʒ sound is from the ‘Consonants Pairs’ group and it is called the ‘Voiced palato-alveolar sibilant’. This means that you create friction through clenched teeth by directing air flow through a narrow channel formed along the middle of the tongue
Explination
The /ʒ/ sound (shj Sound)
References
/ʒ/ vs /ʃ/
equation location
exposure kosher
measure pressure
vision mission
Many teachers don't teach the phoneme /ʒ/ explicitly in the belief that students will imitate the teacher. However most Spanish speakers can't hear the difference between /ʒ/ and /ʃ/ and they are not aware that vision /ˈvɪʒən/ and mission /ˈmɪʃən/ don't rhyme.
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