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The /ʤ/ sound

Written By English Language Club on Friday, Nov 21, 2014 | 05:00 AM

 
🗣️ Speak English with confidence: join the English Language Club 👉 https://www.skool.com/english-language-club-2377 Group calls with Colin, a friendly community, and "ELC Teacher", a teaching app that builds a course just for you. 30-day money-back guarantee. The /ʤ/ sound, as in "job", "join" and "age". It's a voiced consonant (an affricate): you stop the air with the tip of your tongue on the ridge behind your top teeth, then let it out through a narrow gap. Colin shows how to make it, the different ways it's spelt ("j", "ge", "gi"), and lots of example words. 0:00 The J sound /ʤ/: job, join, age 0:13 What kind of sound is /ʤ/? 1:09 How to pronounce /ʤ/ (the J sound) 1:24 How the J sound is spelt: just, college, suggest 1:48 Words that start with /ʤ/: general, judge, joy 2:04 J sound in the middle of words: major, energy, subject 2:23 Words that end with /ʤ/: large, message, knowledge Its pair, and all the consonant pairs: ▶ The /ʧ/ Sound: https://youtu.be/6SreswdXlAk ▶ Consonant Pair Sounds: https://youtu.be/zoarwB-7O_c ▶ Interactive Phonetic Chart: https://youtu.be/0HeujZ45OZE #EnglishPronunciation #Consonants #IPA