Pronouncing "Th" and "S"
 

I don't have a problem with it. But I find that mostly Mandarin speaking people struggle with the difference. I always hear these ppl say "S"ousand instead of "TH"ousand. I was talking with my mom's friend who's from China and I wanted to help her correct the pronounciation. But it seems that they'r having trouble. Can any Mandarin speaking members confirm?

TH sounds like TS, I wouldn't bother if you get what they're saying. I have French speaking friends from Quebec and I don't bother correcting them on the silent H because I know what they're saying.

There are a couple problems with TH; there are two different TH sounds.

Unvoiced TH as in "think" - for this th you put your tongue between your teeth and push air.
Voiced TH as in "their" - for this th you put your tongue BEHIND your teeth (not touching the gums) and push air and use your voice.


Any kind of basic english speaker/tutor should be able to teach a kind of lesson once you have this kind of 'structural' English knowledge.

I find that taiwanese people tend to pronounce "N" like "UN"

energy becomes "un"ergy

What do you expect? they're fram Chiner. Have you heard a Caucasian guy speak Japanese? it's as much a train wreck as Chinese people trying to pronounce "Thanks"

I noticed that mandarin speakers butcher the word "usually". It usually comes out sounding like "urually".

TH is often mispronounced as S or T.. mostly because few languages actually have a 'th' sound and it's easy to get away with substituting an S or T, or sometimes even a Z or D.

Thousand = Tousand, Sousand, Dousand, or Zousand.. you can pretty much substitute them in any word and it'll still be understandable.

There is no W in hungarian, only V. so it's amusing to listen to my parents try to pronounce any word with a w in it. they sound like dracula...

True story. I butcher my French way more severely than my Francophone friends butcher their English.

Raff out roud.

flip:
oh my GUT
we are stuck in heavy TROPIC
i want to listen to some BIBDY cent

but i find east indian's accent the most entertaining

I got a problem, it involves pornography and my hand.

uno dos tres are on fire
chicken nut bread
If you can read that you must be filipino hahaha.

^^ actually i can read that becuz of pitbulls song
"i know u want me...."

fing is, I fink sey fink th sounds like an f.

my friend can't say th and he is cantonese.

three turns to free

Mandarin: th->s/z
Canto: th->f
Japanese: th-s/z
Korean: th->d

In my experience.

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