May 22, 2013

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Pronunciation of s and es endings

The video for Day 3 of English Success tells you how to pronounce words that end with s or es.

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What sound in the English language is the most difficult to pronounce? Maybe the s sound and the z sound are not a problem for you, but other sounds are challenging. Add your comment to the discussion below.

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  • Azizeh

    Thanks very much ,
    That video is successful.

  • jhen

    Maybe the ‘th’ sound because of the pronunciation of the words with ‘th’ requires contraction of the tongue and the teeth which is somewhat difficult.

  • Margaret serrano

    the th are a problem to me and sometimes the s or es. It depends on the word i’m using

  • Classicmariam92

    “s” is the sometimes difficalt to me and there is few of the letter that I can’t to pronoune

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKL72QRSDWKYKUJG62PC3COCI Agusti

    I’m Catalan Speaker (spoken by 20% of the people of Kingdom of Spain), so I have some advantage and the s and z sounds come very naturally. However , I have some problems when I have to pronounce “w” in words like womb, would, and th in the middle of some words as worthy.
    It’s curious to see how the Castilian speakers (Spanish) have a lot of problems to pronounce: s, z, v, w, a, open o, and so forth and this is because the Castilian has a  very simple phonemes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/flaviasantana Flavia Santana

    In my point of view the most challenging sound for Brazilian people is “th” like three, think…

  • Henidudits

    Ya There are alot of sounds that make me hard to pronounce. like statistics

  • Berkia Nabil

    thank’s it is very  helpful

  • Doctorgoron

    for me is the

  • Sumera

    i can improve my pronunciation through the lessons. 

    • Konain Haider

       hi sumera can you make friend ship with me through this we improve our english and i hope you accept my friend ship.

  • Thamir

    any body wants to ask me anything or be friends here is my email
    thamir_alethawe@yahoo.com

  • Thamir

    for me I do not have any difficult thing to pronounce, may be because Arabic language has all the details of pronunciation.

  • Iziraissa

    For me, the most difficult sound is the “th”. I can pronounce it if I pronounce slowly, but in a conversation I can’t speak it fastly.

  • hussain

    Hi
     I  think the    p  sound is a bit challenging for me. 

  • Vennessa Chiu

    Yeah Its easy to pronounce the s and z sounds, but for me I’m not that good in pronouncing the ‘th’ sound, like for example, the word ‘myth’ and other word that ends with ‘th” for me was so challenging to pronounce.. But I think if I practice more and more, I can develop more my pronounciation and make it perfect. Goodluck to me :) ))

    • Lorynd

      Hi, Vennessa! I like your answer and I notice we think alike. Good luck with your pronounciation improving! It is my goal too. Want to be a conversation partner? Email me at lorynd@hotmail.com.

  • Lorynd

    You are right: the z and s sounds are a piece of cake to me… However, the ‘th’ sound is a pain especially when it comes to ordinal numbers like seventh, tenth, nineteenth… :-)
    Talking about goals, I would like to come as close as possible to a native speaker. I know that it is a real challenge but ‘practice makes perfection’ someone said once.

  • Paramjit Singla

    It’s  very good lesson.I faced a lot of problems  during Pronounce a word

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