Tips

1. 🔊 Do not put your tongue just behind your teeth.
2. 🔊 Do not put your tongue too far out.
3. 🔊 Put your tongue just behind your bottom lip, then bring your top teeth down until the “th” sound comes naturally.
4. 🔊 If your tongue is too relaxed, try doing the straw exercise.
5. 🔊 How far should you stick out your tongue? Put a finger in front of your lips. Your tongue should be just touching your finger.
6. 🔊 Make a vibration in your throat to make the voiced “th” sound.

Guides

1. 🔊 After most consonant sounds like / m / and / n /, the TH sound will usually be unvoiced
   1. 🔊 Strength
   2. 🔊 Length
   3. 🔊 Fifteenth
   4. 🔊 Month
   5. 🔊 Earth
2. 🔊 After a vowel sound, or after a schwa sound, the TH sound will usually be voiced
   1. 🔊 Brother, mother, father
   2. 🔊 Breathe
   3. 🔊 Leather
   4. 🔊 Rather
   5. 🔊 Soothing
   6. 🔊 Feather
   7. 🔊 Clothes
   8. 🔊 Gatherv
   9. 🔊 Weather
   10. 🔊 Other
3. 🔊 At the start of a word, it’s usually unvoiced
   1. 🔊 Thunder
   2. 🔊 Thousand
   3. 🔊 Thirsty
   4. 🔊 Thief
   5. 🔊 Thumb
4. 🔊 But remember, there’s no definite rule for any of these
   1. 🔊 This
   2. 🔊 Them
   3. 🔊 Thee
   4. 🔊 That
   5. 🔊 They
   6. 🔊 Cloth
   7. 🔊 Math
   8. 🔊 Booth
   9. 🔊 Mouth
   10. 🔊 Wreath