question is about the th sound everyone's favorite and it is how do I

say the word thief or a person who steals and teeth your pearly whites

let's go ahead and take a look so we have the word thief and the word teeth

and I wrote them on this side of the board so that you can see the sounds

that you're supposed to be making and you can focus on that instead of the

spelling so for the word thief we're going to start with that th sound the th

sound here is voiceless meaning your voice box is not moving and your throat

is not vibrating you are going to stick your tongue out of your mouth and do not

touch your teeth yes technically the sides of your tongue can touch your

teeth but for most of my students when I say this they cheat and then they really

touch the teeth and then what happens is no air can come out of your mouth and it

sounds like a t so make sure your tongue is down away from your front

teeth so the air can move out for that th sound next smile because the th is

finished and saythe long e sound and then end with the F sound and to do this

you're going to have open lips you can slightly bite the inside of the bottom

teeth if you want and some people bite their bottom lip for this sound and

you're going to make sure that that air keeps coming out ff ff or ff ff let's put it all

together thief thief thief thief this word is super difficult for some

people because instead of a th sound I hear some people make an F sound so

really take your time with this start with that th sound move to the long e

and then end with that F theif the next word teeth going to start by

touching the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth

and then you're going to move to that long e sound and then stick your tongue

out of your mouth for the th and you know the drill

try not to touch your teeth because when you do this it stops the air and it's

going to sound like a T sound and we don't want that teeth teeth teeth teeth

for both of these words please take your time

this word is difficult because some people say a T sound instead of a th and

again for a thief some people say F instead of th so really take your time

focus on that th sound let's try those both again thief thief thief teeth teeth

teeth the thief was missing his two front teeth the thief was missing his

two front teeth give it a try people are definitely going to notice the

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