Dave Nicholls
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
It's not easy for a tongue to do it, to go into the Z sound.
It's a very hard sound.
Absolutely.
It's very good advice to do so, to record your voice and then listen to it so that you can hear if your pronunciation is correct or not correct.
Good.
Yeah, absolutely.
Months.
Months.
So, it's silent there.
You don't need to have any in the background.
Absolutely.
I think a lot of British English speakers, when they're growing up, they use a F for a voiceless TH and a V for a voiced TH.
Yeah, the F and the V. Exactly.
They say cloves, and that's how I grew up.
That's how I said it when I was growing up, certainly.
So, definitely, any time you need to do a voiced or a voiceless TH, you need to bite your tongue.
It needs to be done each and every time.
It can't be avoided.
A lot of natives will avoid it by using a F. They will say, thank you.