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Pronunciation of TH

                  The 'th' sound
Two 'th' sounds in English:
'Voiceless' / 'soft' sound.
/θ/
'Voiced' / 'hard' sound.

                       /ð/

Listen to these 2 sounds:

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Our first sound will be 'soft th' which is /θ/ and the second sound will be 'hard th' which is /ð/

   Our first sound, the soft th, is for words like   'think' : /θɪŋk/
and the hard sound for   'this' /ðɪs/ 'that',  'them' /ðem/ ,   'they',   'those'
There are two words which have the same spelling :    mouth /maʊθ/ (nom: bouche)
                                                                                                    mouth /maʊð/ (verbe : articuler sans émettre de son)

The sound /θ/

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think	thumb	thought	thousand	thick	thin
author	method	arithmetic	month	mouth	tooth

The sound /ð/

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this	these	that	those	then	than
they	though	together	them	smooth	soothe

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