English Pronunciation 👄 Voiceless Consonant - /ʃ/ - 'ship’, ‘sure’ & 'national'
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This is a voiceless consonant - it's
pronounced /ʃ/. This is the sound you
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make if you want someone to be quiet /ʃ/.
Did you notice the shape of my lips? Watch:
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/ʃ/. Now you try - listen, watch and repeat
after me: /ʃ/ /ʃ/. Now let's look at some
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words with a sound /ʃ/ in them: it's found at
the beginning of the words 'ship' and 'sure',
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in the middle of the word 'nation', at the
end of the word 'fish' and at the beginning
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and end of the word 'shush. now you try -
listen and repeat after me: ship - sure -
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nation - fish - shush. Good.
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For speakers of some languages it may be
difficult to tell the difference between
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the sound /ʃ/ and the consonant /s/,
especially at the beginning of words.
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Did you notice the difference in the shape
of my lips? Watch - /ʃ/. Listen carefully to
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the following examples - for each example I'll
say the word with /ʃ/ at the beginning first:
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ship - sip, show - so, shy - sigh, chauffeur
- sofa, shock - sock. Now you try - listen,
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watch and repeat after me: ship - sip, show - so,
shy - sigh, chauffeur - sofa, shock - sock. Good.
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