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American English Pronunciation Podcast (Pronuncian.com), #03: American English pronunciation of the s sound and z sound

#03: American English pronunciation of the s sound and z sound

#3: American English pronunciation of the s sound and z sound

Learn how to create the s sound and z sound in English, and the rules for the -s ending.

Transcript

Hello again, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation podcast.

This is podcast #3. If you've forgotten, or are listening for the first time, my name is Mandy. Remember, Pronuncian.com is where you can find transcripts and show notes to all our podcasts, as well as each practice sentence or word set.

Today's practice will be the sentence: "Cats love boxes; dogs love beds." We'll come back to that later. I hope you still remember our practice sentence from podcast number one, "Think about this thing, that thing, and those things.

I hope you also practiced our d sound/t sound minimal pairs from podcast number two: "dime, time; dense, tense; code, coat; tide, tight; spend, spent. When I say that this is an American English Pronunciation podcast, I am referring to what is known as the General American Accent , the accent considered to be the most "neutral" accent for the United States.

Canadian accents are quite similar to an American accent, or at least are more similar to an American accent than say, a British accent or an Australian accent. Certainly, there are variances in English spoken around the world, as well as within English speaking countries. I grew up in the United States and, since I teach in the United States and most of my students are long-time residents of the United States, I know far more about American accents than any other accent of spoken English. Wikipedia has a map of where the "General American Accent" is most prevalent.

I've linked to that site from Pronuncian.com. I'm from Wisconsin, just north of the area shown on this map. However, since I am actually from northern Wisconsin, I had a strong accent from that area when I moved to Seattle, Washington, five years ago. Since I've been teaching pronunciation for three years, I've lost most of that northern Wisconsin accent and picked up the more neutral "General American Accent." When I travel back to Wisconsin, however, my friends and family hear my new speech habits as an "accent." That just proves that an accent is only when you speak differently than those around you, and that is impossible to be accent-less. Let's go to today's topic.

I'm going to stay with the theme of voiced and unvoiced consonant sounds, and we're going to talk about another set of fricatives. The th sounds were the first fricatives we studied. In case you've forgotten, a fricative is a continuous sound that is created by allowing only a small amount of air to leave the mouth, which causes friction, and sound. Today's sounds are the s sound (s sound) and the z sound (z sound).

Say those sounds to yourself and see if you can tell which is the voiced sound, and which is unvoiced. (s sound, z sound). Remember, voiced sounds use our vocal cords, and we can feel the vibration if we put a finger against the front of our throat. I hope you said that the z sound is voiced, and the s sound is unvoiced. The z sound and s sound are articulated in the same area at the front of our mouth as the t sound and d sound, at the tooth ridge.

The tooth ridge is that area right behind our upper front teeth. To create the z sound and s sound , we make a little groove with our tongue and push air out through the center of the tip of the tongue and along that bony ridge behind our front teeth. The sound happens as the air is pushed into and around our front teeth. The biggest problem I usually hear in the creation of this sound is that the tip of the tongue is too far back and the sound is created behind that ridge.

I often hear Koreans say the s sound and z sound this way. An American English speaker will hear that sound as an sh sound instead of an s sound or z sound . Make sure the tip of the tongue is way forward, nearly touching the upper front teeth. I will also hear Korean speakers stop the flow of air at the beginning of an s sound or z sound . Both of these sounds are fricatives, meaning the air smoothly exits the mouth. If the sound is started by stopping all the air, a native English speaker will hear a j sound or ch sound instead of an s sound or z sound . Mispronunciation, however, is not the major issue with the s sound and z sound .

The most common problem I hear students have is substituting the s sound where the z sound should be. This problem is made even bigger by the fact that we have a huge number of words that are spelled with an "s", but pronounced with a "z". The highly frequent words, "is, his, as, please, because, these, those," and many, many more, are pronounced with a z sound . How do you, the non-native speaker learn which sound you should say? One way is to begin to pay very close attention to native speakers. Or else you need to learn to use that dictionary and its pronunciation symbols. Sorry everyone, there is no easy answer here. There is one very handy rule I can teach you however, and that is how to pronounce the -s endings that are added to nouns to make them plural, to verbs when they are conjugated, or when two words are combined in a contraction.

The clue is in the final sound before the ending was added.

You will need to know which sounds are voiced and which ones are unvoiced. If a word ends in an unvoiced sound, like the t sound in the word "cats," for example, the final "s" is pronounced as an s sound . If the final sound is voiced, like the final d sound in the word "beds," for example, the final "s" is pronounced as a z sound . I know I haven't talked about vowels at all yet, but let me say here, that all vowel sounds are voiced. So if I have the word "she", which ends in the long e sound, and I make a contraction of words the "she is" and create "she's," the final s is pronounced as a z sound. We also have those -es endings , the ones that happen when we add a syllable to a word to conjugate it or make it plural.

I mean in words like "kisses, watches, or boxes". When we add a syllable for the -es ending , that final s is always pronounced as a z sound. So we had three rules for the -s ending we add to words.

Number one: the "s" is pronounced as an s sound when it follows an unvoiced sound. Two: the "s" is pronounced as a z sound when it follows a voiced sound. And three: when we add a syllable to the word for the addition of "s", the final "s" is always pronounced as a z sound . Here is a short sentence to help you remember all three final -s rules .

"Cats love boxes; dogs love beds.

The word "cats" is the only word with an s sound in that sentence.

The rest are all pronounced as a z sound . "Cats love boxes; dogs love beds.

This can all be difficult to understand from just listening to someone explain it without any visuals to look at.

Go to the Pronuncian website for many more examples and exercises to practice these skills. You can also find diagrams of the mouth to help you create the sounds correctly, as well as many, many audio files to repeat after. Remember, once you know the correct way to do something, you still need a lot of practice to break the habit of doing it the old way. If you have a pronunciation issue that you would like me to talk about, please email me at podcast @pronuncian.com, and I will get to it as soon as possible.

Have a great week everyone, and thanks for listening.


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Learn how to create the s sound and z sound in English, and the rules for the -s ending.

Transcript

Hello again, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy’s American English Pronunciation podcast. Tekrar merhaba ve Seattle Learning Academy'nin Amerikan İngilizcesi Telaffuz podcast'ine tekrar hoş geldiniz.

This is podcast #3. If you’ve forgotten, or are listening for the first time, my name is Mandy. Remember, Pronuncian.com is where you can find transcripts and show notes to all our podcasts, as well as each practice sentence or word set. Unutmayın, Pronuncian.com'da tüm podcast'lerimizin ve ayrıca her alıştırma cümlesi veya kelime setinin transkriptlerini bulabilir ve notlarını gösterebilirsiniz.

Today’s practice will be the sentence: "Cats love boxes; dogs love beds." We’ll come back to that later. I hope you still remember our practice sentence from podcast number one, "Think about this thing, that thing, and those things. Umarım bir numaralı podcast'teki pratik cümlemizi hala hatırlıyorsunuzdur, "Şunu, o şeyi ve şu şeyleri düşün.

I hope you also practiced our d sound/t sound minimal pairs from podcast number two: "dime, time; dense, tense; code, coat; tide, tight; spend, spent. When I say that this is an American English Pronunciation podcast, I am referring to what is known as the General American Accent , the accent considered to be the most "neutral" accent for the United States. これがアメリカ英語の発音ポッドキャストであると私が言うとき、私は一般的なアメリカのアクセントとして知られているものに言及しています、アクセントは米国にとって最も「中立的な」アクセントであると考えられています。 Bunun bir Amerikan İngilizcesi Telaffuz podcast'i olduğunu söylediğimde, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri için en "nötr" aksan olarak kabul edilen Genel Amerikan Aksanı olarak bilinen aksanı kastediyorum.

Canadian accents are quite similar to an American accent, or at least are more similar to an American accent than say, a British accent or an Australian accent. カナダのアクセントはアメリカのアクセントに非常に似ています、または少なくともイギリスのアクセントやオーストラリアのアクセントよりもアメリカのアクセントに似ています。 Certainly, there are variances in English spoken around the world, as well as within English speaking countries. 確かに、世界中で話されている英語と英語圏の国々では、英語の違いがあります。 I grew up in the United States and, since I teach in the United States and most of my students are long-time residents of the United States, I know far more about American accents than any other accent of spoken English. Wikipedia has a map of where the "General American Accent" is most prevalent.

I’ve linked to that site from Pronuncian.com. I’m from Wisconsin, just north of the area shown on this map. Wisconsin'denim, bu haritada gösterilen bölgenin hemen kuzeyindeyim. However, since I am actually from northern Wisconsin, I had a strong accent from that area when I moved to Seattle, Washington, five years ago. Ancak, aslında kuzey Wisconsin'den olduğum için, beş yıl önce Seattle, Washington'a taşındığımda o bölgeden güçlü bir aksanım vardı. Since I’ve been teaching pronunciation for three years, I’ve lost most of that northern Wisconsin accent and picked up the more neutral "General American Accent." Üç yıldır telaffuz öğrettiğim için, o kuzey Wisconsin aksanının çoğunu kaybettim ve daha tarafsız olan "Genel Amerikan Aksanı"nı aldım. When I travel back to Wisconsin, however, my friends and family hear my new speech habits as an "accent." しかし、ウィスコンシンに戻ったとき、私の友人や家族は私の新しいスピーチの習慣を「アクセント」として聞いています。 That just proves that an accent is only when you speak differently than those around you, and that is impossible to be accent-less. それは、アクセントがあなたの周りのものとは異なる話し方をするときだけであり、それをアクセントなしにすることは不可能であることを証明しています。 Let’s go to today’s topic. Gelelim bugünün konusuna.

I’m going to stay with the theme of voiced and unvoiced consonant sounds, and we’re going to talk about another set of fricatives. Sesli ve sessiz ünsüz sesler teması üzerinde kalacağım ve başka bir frikatifler grubu hakkında konuşacağız. The th sounds were the first fricatives we studied. th sesleri, incelediğimiz ilk sürtünmeli seslerdi. In case you’ve forgotten, a fricative is a continuous sound that is created by allowing only a small amount of air to leave the mouth, which causes friction, and sound. 忘れている場合、摩擦音とは、少量の空気だけが口から出るのを許容することによって作成される継続的な音であり、これにより摩擦と音が発生します。 Unuttuysanız, frikatif, ağızdan sadece küçük bir miktar havanın çıkmasına izin vererek oluşturulan sürekli bir sestir, bu da sürtünmeye ve sese neden olur. Today’s sounds are the s sound (s sound) and the z sound (z sound). Bugünün sesleri s sesi (s sesi) ve z sesi (z sesi).

Say those sounds to yourself and see if you can tell which is the voiced sound, and which is unvoiced. Bu sesleri kendinize söyleyin ve hangisinin sesli, hangisinin sessiz olduğunu ayırt edip edemeyeceğinize bakın. (s sound, z sound). (s sesi, z sesi). Remember, voiced sounds use our vocal cords, and we can feel the vibration if we put a finger against the front of our throat. Unutmayın, seslendirilen sesler ses tellerimizi kullanır ve parmağımızı gırtlağımızın ön kısmına koyduğumuzda titreşimi hissedebiliriz. I hope you said that the z sound is voiced, and the s sound is unvoiced. Umarım z sesi sesli, s sesi sessizdir demişsinizdir. The z sound and s sound are articulated in the same area at the front of our mouth as the t sound and d sound, at the tooth ridge. z音とs音は、歯の尾根のt音とd音と同じように口の前の領域で明瞭に表現されます。 z sesi ve s sesi, ağzımızın ön kısmında, diş sırtında t sesi ve d sesiyle aynı bölgede eklemlenir.

The tooth ridge is that area right behind our upper front teeth. Diş sırtı, üst ön dişlerimizin hemen arkasındaki alandır. To create the z sound and s sound , we make a little groove with our tongue and push air out through the center of the tip of the tongue and along that bony ridge behind our front teeth. zサウンドとsサウンドを作成するには、舌で小さな溝を作り、舌の先端の中心から前歯の後ろの骨の尾根に沿って空気を押し出します。 z sesini ve s sesini oluşturmak için dilimizle küçük bir oluk açarız ve havayı dilin ucunun ortasından ve ön dişlerimizin arkasındaki kemik çıkıntısı boyunca dışarı doğru iteriz. The sound happens as the air is pushed into and around our front teeth. 前歯の中や周りに空気が押し込まれると音が発生します。 Ses, hava ön dişlerimizin içine ve çevresine itildiğinde ortaya çıkar. The biggest problem I usually hear in the creation of this sound is that the tip of the tongue is too far back and the sound is created behind that ridge. Bu sesin oluşumunda genelde duyduğum en büyük sorun dil ucunun çok geride olması ve sesin o çıkıntının arkasında oluşmasıdır.

I often hear Koreans say the s sound and z sound this way. Korelilerin s sesini ve z sesini bu şekilde söylediklerini sık sık duyuyorum. An American English speaker will hear that sound as an sh sound instead of an s sound or z sound . Bir Amerikan İngilizcesi konuşmacısı bu sesi bir s sesi veya z sesi yerine bir sh sesi olarak duyacaktır. Make sure the tip of the tongue is way forward, nearly touching the upper front teeth. 舌の先端が前頭の前歯にほぼ触れていることを確認します。 Dilin ucunun çok ileri olduğundan ve neredeyse üst ön dişlere değdiğinden emin olun. I will also hear Korean speakers stop the flow of air at the beginning of an s sound or z sound . また、韓国語のスピーカーは、s音またはz音の始まりで空気の流れを止めるのを聞きます。 Both of these sounds are fricatives, meaning the air smoothly exits the mouth. これらの音はどちらも摩擦音です。つまり、空気は口からスムーズに出ます。 Bu seslerin her ikisi de frikatiftir, yani hava ağızdan düzgün bir şekilde çıkar. If the sound is started by stopping all the air, a native English speaker will hear a j sound or ch sound instead of an s sound or z sound . すべての空気を止めてサウンドを開始すると、英語のネイティブスピーカーには、sサウンドまたはzサウンドではなく、jサウンドまたはchサウンドが聞こえます。 Ses tüm havayı keserek başlatılırsa, anadili İngilizce olan biri s sesi veya z sesi yerine aj sesi veya ch sesi duyacaktır. Mispronunciation, however, is not the major issue with the s sound and z sound . ただし、発音の誤りは、sサウンドとzサウンドの大きな問題ではありません。

The most common problem I hear students have is substituting the s sound where the z sound should be. This problem is made even bigger by the fact that we have a huge number of words that are spelled with an "s", but pronounced with a "z". The highly frequent words, "is, his, as, please, because, these, those," and many, many more, are pronounced with a z sound . 非常に頻繁に使用される「is、his、as、please、because、these、those」などの多くは、zサウンドで発音されます。 Çok sık kullanılan "is, onun, as, lütfen, çünkü, bunlar, bunlar" ve çok daha fazlası az sesiyle telaffuz edilir. How do you, the non-native speaker learn which sound you should say? どのようにあなたは、非ネイティブスピーカーがあなたが言うべき音を学ぶのですか? Ana dili İngilizce olmayan siz, hangi sesi söylemeniz gerektiğini nasıl öğrenirsiniz? One way is to begin to pay very close attention to native speakers. Or else you need to learn to use that dictionary and its pronunciation symbols. Sorry everyone, there is no easy answer here. There is one very handy rule I can teach you however, and that is how to pronounce the -s endings that are added to nouns to make them plural, to verbs when they are conjugated, or when two words are combined in a contraction. しかし、私があなたに教えることができる非常に便利なルールが1つあります。それは、名詞を複数形にするために追加された-sの末尾、動詞が活用されているとき、または2つの単語が短縮形で結合されているときに発音する方法です。 Bununla birlikte, size öğretebileceğim çok kullanışlı bir kural var ve bu, isimlere çoğul yapmak için eklenen -s sonlarının, çekimlendiklerinde fiillere veya bir kısaltmada iki kelime birleştirildiğinde nasıl telaffuz edileceğidir.

The clue is in the final sound before the ending was added. 手がかりは、エンディングが追加される前の最後の音にあります。 İpucu, bitiş eklenmeden önceki son seste.

You will need to know which sounds are voiced and which ones are unvoiced. Hangi seslerin sesli, hangilerinin sessiz olduğunu bilmeniz gerekecek. If a word ends in an unvoiced sound, like the t sound in the word "cats," for example, the final "s" is pronounced as an s sound . Bir kelime, örneğin "cats" kelimesindeki t sesi gibi sessiz bir sesle bitiyorsa, sondaki "s", s sesi olarak telaffuz edilir. If the final sound is voiced, like the final d sound in the word "beds," for example, the final "s" is pronounced as a z sound . I know I haven’t talked about vowels at all yet, but let me say here, that all vowel sounds are voiced. Sesli harflerden henüz bahsetmediğimi biliyorum ama burada belirteyim ki tüm ünlüler seslidir. So if I have the word "she", which ends in the long e sound, and I make a contraction of words the "she is" and create "she’s," the final s is pronounced as a z sound. つまり、長い彼女の音で終わる「彼女」という言葉があり、「彼女は」という言葉を縮めて「彼女」を作成すると、最後のsはzサウンドとして発音されます。 Yani, uzun e sesiyle biten "she" kelimem varsa ve "she is" kelimesini kısaltıp "she's" kelimesini oluşturursam, son s az sesi olarak telaffuz edilir. We also have those -es endings , the ones that happen when we add a syllable to a word to conjugate it or make it plural. Ayrıca, bir kelimeyi eşlenik yapmak veya onu çoğul yapmak için bir hece eklediğimizde ortaya çıkan -es sonları da var.

I mean in words like "kisses, watches, or boxes". "Öpücükler, saatler veya kutular" gibi sözcükleri kastediyorum. When we add a syllable for the -es ending , that final s is always pronounced as a z sound. -es ekine bir hece eklediğimizde o son s her zaman az sesi olarak okunur. So we had three rules for the -s ending we add to words. Yani kelimelere eklediğimiz -s sonu için üç kuralımız vardı.

Number one: the "s" is pronounced as an s sound when it follows an unvoiced sound. Bir numara: "s" sessiz bir sesten sonra s olarak telaffuz edilir. Two: the "s" is pronounced as a z sound when it follows a voiced sound. İki: "s" sesli bir sesin ardından geldiğinde az sesi olarak telaffuz edilir. And three: when we add a syllable to the word for the addition of "s", the final "s" is always pronounced as a z sound . Ve üç: "s" eki için kelimeye bir hece eklediğimizde, son "s" her zaman az sesi olarak telaffuz edilir. Here is a short sentence to help you remember all three final -s rules . İşte üç final -s kuralını da hatırlamanıza yardımcı olacak kısa bir cümle.

"Cats love boxes; dogs love beds. "Kediler kutuları sever, köpekler yatakları sever.

The word "cats" is the only word with an s sound in that sentence. Bu cümlede "s" sesi olan tek kelime "kediler" kelimesidir.

The rest are all pronounced as a z sound . Geri kalanların tümü az sesi olarak telaffuz edilir. "Cats love boxes; dogs love beds. "Kediler kutuları sever, köpekler yatakları sever.

This can all be difficult to understand from just listening to someone explain it without any visuals to look at. これは、誰かがそれを説明するのを聞いているだけで、視覚的に見ることなく理解するのが難しい場合があります。 Bunların hepsini, herhangi bir görsele bakmadan sadece birinin açıklamasını dinlemekten anlamak zor olabilir.

Go to the Pronuncian website for many more examples and exercises to practice these skills. Le site Pronuncian propose de nombreux autres exemples et exercices pour mettre en pratique ces compétences. Bu becerileri uygulamak için daha fazla örnek ve alıştırma için Pronuncian web sitesine gidin. You can also find diagrams of the mouth to help you create the sounds correctly, as well as many, many audio files to repeat after. Vous trouverez également des schémas de la bouche pour vous aider à produire les sons correctement, ainsi que de très nombreux fichiers audio à répéter. Remember, once you know the correct way to do something, you still need a lot of practice to break the habit of doing it the old way. N'oubliez pas qu'une fois que vous connaissez la bonne façon de faire quelque chose, il vous faut encore beaucoup d'entraînement pour vous défaire de l'habitude de faire les choses à l'ancienne. 何かを行うための正しい方法を知ったら、それを古い方法で行う習慣を打破するために多くの練習が必要であることを覚えておいてください。 Unutmayın, bir şeyi yapmanın doğru yolunu bir kez öğrendiğinizde, onu eski yöntemle yapma alışkanlığını kırmak için hala çokça pratik yapmanız gerekir. If you have a pronunciation issue that you would like me to talk about, please email me at podcast @pronuncian.com, and I will get to it as soon as possible. Si vous avez un problème de prononciation dont vous aimeriez que je parle, envoyez-moi un courriel à podcast @pronuncian.com, et je m'en occuperai dès que possible.

Have a great week everyone, and thanks for listening. Herkese iyi haftalar ve dinlediğiniz için teşekkürler.