As the title suggests, the "th" sound can be voiced or voiceless. This means that the "th" sound can be made by an exhalation of air or with a vibration in the throat area.
The voiceless or soft "th" sound is made with an exhalation of air. You should not feel a vibration in your throat area. You should feel your tongue lightly touching your lower lips and
in-between your teeth. So, it is as if you are lightly biting your tongue while at the same time touching your lower lip. With this formation, you make the voiceless or soft "th" by exhaling or blowing air through.
Things to remember:
1) Feel your tongue touching your lower lip.
2) Lightly bite your tongue with just enough pressure to allow air to pass through.
3) Blow air through your lip, tongue, and teeth formation to make the soft "th" sound.
3) The soft "th" is a voiceless sound so you should just use air to make the sound.
4) You should not vibrate your throat area to make the voiceless or soft "th" sound.
Here are some words you can practice with.
think | thought | fourth | fifth | southeast |
thing | growth | athlete | depth | enthusiasm |
through | authority | thin | wealth | thumb |
three | truth | breath | worth | health-care |
something | theory | theme | thirty | theology |
month | throughout | thanks | athletic | bath |
both | method | earth | math | therapist |
nothing | mouth | thick | wealthy | seventh |
anything | threat | ethnic | strengthen | northeast |
health | through | Catholic | myth | thoroughly |
everything | strength | forth | Catholic | thigh |
death | faith | tooth | ethics | mathematics |
thank | path | length | hypothesis | earthquake |
north | worth | beneath | northwest | sympathy |
third | threaten | therapy | ethical | aesthetic |
south | youth | bathroom | monthly | booth |
thousand | healthy | smooth | sixth | eighth |
throw | birth | birthday | cloth | Thanksgiving |
author | theater | throat | southwest | thread |
You might also want to read my post of Best way to practice the voiceless "th" sound.
Let me know your thoughts. Thanks.
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