Speak English Fluently all 6 D Sounds Rachels English English Speaking Lesson

Have you learned how to pronounce D?

Ddd–

Tongue in position, vibrate the vocal cords…

Well, there are actually six different ways that Americans might pronounce that sound.

And today, we’re inviting superstar Rachel’s English teacher, Tom Kelly,

to teach you these six different ways.

When you understand them, you’ll figure out how you can speak more natural and easy English.

Tom teaches students in Rachel’s English Academy, all day, every day,

and this is part of what he teaches them, so I’m so glad that he’s here to do this for us today.

We’re gonna hand it over to Tom in just a second but before we do,

make sure you subscribe with notifications if you haven’t already.

We make new videos on the English language every Tuesday, and we’d love to see you back here again.

Okay, Tom, take it away!

Hi! I’m Tom Kelly, a Rachel’s English teacher with Rachel’s English Academy.

Today we’re going to talk in depth about a sound in American English

that has a lot of different pronunciations. The D consonant.

Here are words and two word phrases that all use a different pronunciation of the D sound.

Dog

Mad

Ladder

Dad runs.

Did you?

Send me.

Whoa. One letter…six different pronunciations.

Yikes.

Luckily, there are some guidelines for when to use each one.

So let’s get started.

Now, you may have heard about the Stop T and the Flap T and the True T.

Well, the only difference between the T and D consonant is that the D consonant is voiced

and the T is unvoiced.

So that means the D consonant has multiple pronunciations as well!

Let’s start with the Classic - the True D.

As Rachel teaches in her video on the D consonant,

it is a Stop Consonant.

This means that there are two parts to creating a True D.

First, a stop of the airflow and second, a release.

The airflow is stopped by the tongue position.

The tongue will come up and the front part will touch the roof of the mouth just behind the top teeth.

It will then pull down to release the air.

Da.

The teeth can be together for the D consonant sound,

but they do not need to be.

For example here is the D sound with the teeth together:

Dog.

Day.

Diner.

You may actually find that you get an easier, more relaxed sound when your teeth are not together.

Dog.

Day.

Diner.

This allows you to keep a looser, more relaxed jaw,

which is great for finding that American English flow, and natural quality.

Now, this is a voiced consonant, so you will use your vocal cords for the D.

And that will be very important later on.

Now when do we use the True D?

Whenever a D consonant begins a word

or when it begins a stressed syllable in the middle of a multiple syllable word.

So, let’s practice this. Here it is at the beginning: dog, diaper,

As the parent of an infant, I use this one a lot,

and the name Debra, like in the song by Beck.

Debra.

Notice that my teeth are not together when I pronounce the D.

Dd– dd– Debra.

In fact, my jaw is loose and relaxed.

Now this relaxation helps create a more effortless sound

and it might help you find a more natural native speaker quality to your D consonant.

Now here is the True D in the middle of a word.

Produce.

Serendipity.

Houdini.

Again, notice my teeth are not closing to help me create this sound, my jaw stays loose.

Houdini.

Houdini. Da, da.

Okay, so that’s the classic True D consonant sound.

The sound we think of when we think of the letter D.

However, that is only the first of our six pronunciations.

So let’s talk about number two. The Flap D.

Now that sounds similar to a flap T, right?

And that is because it is the exact same sound.

When a D is between two vowel sounds in an unstressed position,

meaning the following syllable is unstressed,

it will be pronounced very quickly, lightly, a very fast, weak version of the True D.

Now this should sound just like the Flap T

or if you come from a native language that uses a Flap R,

where the tip of the tongue bounces quickly off the roof of the mouth,

that is also the same sound.

So, M-A-D-D-E-R, madder, madder.

This word has a Flap D whereas,

M-A-T-T-E-R as in ‘What’s the matter?’

Matter, those words are pronounced exactly the same.

Madder with a D, madder, and matter with a T, matter.

As in: No one is madder than me that English spelling is so unhelpful.

Now, this sound is used within words like: madder, ladder, riddle, cradle, buddy, academy.

It’s also used when linking a word that ends with a D into a word that starts with a vowel or a diphthong,

like: had a– I had a great time!

Had a– had a–

Good idea.

That’s a good idea!

Good idea.

Notice the D in ‘idea’ is a True D, a little stronger and clearer

because it’s at the beginning of a stressed syllable.

Idea.

That’s a good idea.

Sad about–

I’m sad about English not being a phonetic language.

Sad about–

Okay, that brings us to the Stop D, or more accurately the unreleased D.

The unreleased D is similar to a Stop T.

Remember, that there are two parts to a stop consonant,

there’s the stop of airflow, and there’s the release.

For an unreleased D, or a Stop T, all you have is the stop of the airflow, you do not release the air.

So how can you tell whether you are using a Stop T or a Stop D?

And how will a listener be able to tell?

Earlier, I told you to remember that you use your vocal cords for the D consonant sound.

Here is where that becomes very important.

It’s very common for non-native speakers to have issues with the unreleased D.

It very often sounds exactly like a Stop T for them, but it shouldn’t.

For the Stop T you use a very brief stop of airflow and sound.

SAT, for instance, sat, sat, sat there–

This means that you can actually make the stop T without lifting the tongue up

behind the upper teeth. Sat, sat, sat there– sat there–

You cannot do that for the unreleased D.

For the unreleased D, you want that same brief stop of airflow

but because it’s a voiced consonant, your vocal cords will still be producing sound.

Sad, sad.

sad there–

Do you hear that voiced quality for the unreleased D?

Sad. Dddd–

Here’s the stop T and the unreleased D back-to-back:

Sat.

Sad.

Sat.

Sad.

Sat.

Sad.

Because you’re continuing to use your vocal chords for the unreleased D,

the vowel sound will seem longer in the word SAD,

sad, than it does in SAT, sat.

Sad.

Sat.

I sat there waiting.

I’m sad there won’t be snow on Christmas.

Sat there–

sad there–

Sat there–

sad there–

So the thing to remember about the difference between the stop T and the unreleased D,

is that the stop T is a complete stop of airflow and sound.

But the unreleased D is only a stop of airflow.

Your vocal cords continue vibrating and making sound.

When do we use the unreleased D?

You can use this D when the D comes at the end of a phrase:

I’m really mad.

I’m really glad.

Mad.

Glad.

You can also use it when the D is followed by a consonant sound,

and you want to link the words together.

Good night.

Good, good night.

Made money.

Fried food.

There’s two in a row. Fried food.

Fried food.

Now, you may be wondering what about when the D consonant comes at the end of a word,

but it’s in a cluster, like friend or send, or held?

When it comes after the dark L, as in held, or called,

you can use this unreleased D there as well.

Held the baby.

Held.

Held the baby.

Hold my bag.

Hold.

Hold my bag.

Called the restaurant.

Called.

Called the– called the restaurant.

However, when you have this D after the N consonant,

it’s more common to use another form of D.

The dropped D, our fourth pronunciation.

We just don’t say it. We drop it.

So if I say: This is my friend, Mike.

You noticed that I dropped the D sound.

Frien. Mike– Friend. Friend.

This is my friend, Mike.

This is very common when words that end in an ND cluster link into a following consonant sound.

Even when a word that ends in ND is plural, you can usually drop the D.

Hands, minds, ponds, winds, sounds.

All of those, dropped D.

Now you’ll also hear this with words that end in ED

when the consonant sound before the ED ending is voiced.

Let’s take a look at some examples.

Named, named me–

In casual speech, you will hear native speakers drop the D here and say.

Name me– name me–

The context helps the listener know that it is named.

Here’s a clip of someone doing this.

And I said it means ‘splendid’. You named me splendid? Why did you change that?

Named me–

splendid?

And I said it means ‘splendid’. You named me splendid? Why did you change that?

Another example: lived, lived there–

Again, native speakers will drop the D here.

Live there, live there.

Even in formal situations like this:

So when you lived in Carpinteria, you’ve lived there all this time–

lived there–

all this time–

So when you lived in Carpinteria, you’ve lived there all this time–

Dropping the D won’t happen all the time in these situations.

You will hear native speakers release the D sound very quickly, and lightly in these situations as well.

Named me– named me– me, me.

Lived there– there, there. Lived there–

But the Drop D is so common, we do have to talk about it.

Now, number five, that quick light release of the D consonant, that I just mentioned, named me– me, me,

is another pronunciation. I call this the mini release.

This happens when the D consonant is linking into a consonant sound,

and is not unreleased, but is released incredibly quickly and lightly.

Often because it would actually be more difficult to pronounce as an unreleased D.

This is most common when the D sound links into words that start with the R, Y, or W sounds.

Some examples: dad runs– dad runs– dad runs– runs–

Very quick release.

It would actually be more difficult to hold the D sound here.

Dad runs– dad runs–

That’s difficult. It’s much easier to very quickly and lightly release it.

Dad runs– runs– dad runs–

But hear how quick and quiet that D sound is.

It is even lighter than a Flap D.

Dad runs– dad runs–

madder– madder–

dad runs–

Here are some other examples:

Bad weather–

Good year–

Tried yoga–

Ted walks–

walks–

Ted walks–

Code Red–

Paid you–

paid you–

Oh, wait. Paid you– That one sounds different.

We’ve arrived at our sixth and final D pronunciation.

When it can become a JJ as in jump consonant.

This happens when an ending D consonant links into the Y consonant of the words you or your.

We tried your cookies.

Would you like some?

Would you like some? Would you?

Tried your–

Could you say that again?

Could you? Could you?

Now, this only happens with the words you and your, and you do not need to do this.

Some native speakers will do this, and some will not.

You can use the JJ: We tried your cookies.

Or you can use the Y consonant: We tried your cookies.

Tried your– tried your–

Both will sound natural and great.

Hey! We did it. We made it through the six pronunciations of D.

The True D, the Flap D, the unreleased D, the dropped D,

the mini release D, and the D that becomes JJ as in jump.

Tom, thank you so much for this lesson, and thank you for joining me here.

Be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already.

We make new videos on the English language every Tuesday,

and we’d love to see you back here.

That’s it and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

你学过D的发音吗？

Ddd——

舌头在适当的位置，振动声带……

嗯，实际上美国人可能有六种不同的发音方式。

今天，我们邀请超级巨星瑞秋的英语老师汤姆凯利

来教你这六种不同的方式。

当你理解它们时，你就会知道如何才能说得更自然、更轻松的英语。

汤姆在瑞秋的英语学院教学生，整天，每一天

，这是他教给他们的一部分，所以我很高兴他今天在这里为我们做这件事。

我们将在一秒钟内将它交给汤姆，但在我们这样做之前，

如果您还没有订阅通知，请确保您订阅了通知。

我们每周二都会制作新的英语视频，我们很高兴再次见到您。

好吧，汤姆，把它拿走！

你好！我是汤姆·凯利，是瑞秋英语学院的瑞秋英语老师。

今天我们将深入讨论美式英语

中的一个发音，它有很多不同的发音。 D辅音。

这里有单词和两个单词短语，它们都使用不同的 D 音发音。

狗

疯

梯

爸爸跑。

你是否？

发给我。

哇。一个字母……六种不同的发音。

哎呀。

幸运的是，对于何时使用每一个都有一些指导方针。

所以让我们开始吧。

现在，您可能已经听说过 Stop T 和 Flap T 以及 True T。

嗯，T 和 D 辅音之间的唯一区别是 D 辅音是浊音

而 T 是清音。

所以这意味着 D 辅音也有多种发音！

让我们从经典 - 真正的 D 开始。

正如雷切尔在她的 D 辅音视频中所教导的，

它是一个停止辅音。

这意味着创建 True D 有两个部分。

首先，停止气流，其次，释放。

气流被舌头位置阻止。

舌头会抬起，前部会接触到上牙后面的上颚。

然后它会下拉以释放空气。

大。

对于 D 辅音，牙齿可以并排，

但不一定非要如此。

例如这里是 D 音与牙齿在一起：

Dog。

日。

晚餐。

您实际上可能会发现，当您的牙齿不在一起时，您会听到更轻松、更放松的声音。

狗。

日。

晚餐。

这可以让您保持更宽松、更放松的下巴，

这对于发现美式英语流和自然品质非常有用。

现在，这是一个浊辅音，因此您将使用声带来表示 D。

这在以后将非常重要。

现在我们什么时候使用True D？

每当一个 D 辅音开始一个单词

或当它在一个多音节单词的中间开始一个重读音节时。

所以，让我们练习一下。这是开头：狗，尿布，

作为婴儿的父母，我经常使用这个，

还有黛布拉这个名字，就像贝克的歌曲中一样。

黛布拉。

请注意，当我发出 D. Dd– dd– Debra 时，我的牙齿并不在一起

。

事实上，我的下巴松散而放松。

现在，这种放松有助于创造更轻松的声音

，它可能会帮助您为您的 D 辅音找到更自然的母语者质量。

现在这是一个单词中间的True D。

生产。

巧遇。

胡迪尼。

再次，请注意我的牙齿没有闭合以帮助我发出这种声音，我的下巴保持松动。

胡迪尼。

胡迪尼。达，达。

好的，这就是经典的 True D 辅音。

当我们想到字母 D 时我们想到的声音。

然而，这只是我们六个发音中的第一个。

那么让我们谈谈第二个。襟翼 D。

现在听起来很像襟翼 T，对吧？

那是因为它是完全相同的声音。

当一个 D 位于两个元音之间的非重读位置时，

意味着后面的音节是非重读的，

它的发音会非常快、轻，是 True D 的非常快、弱的版本。

现在这应该听起来就像 Flap T

或如果您来自使用 Flap R

的母语，即舌尖从口腔顶部快速弹回，

那也是相同的声音。

所以，M-A-D-D-E-R，更疯狂，更疯狂。

这个词有一个 Flap D，而

M-A-T-T-E-R 就像“怎么了？”

重要的是，这些词的发音完全相同。

带 D 的茜草，茜草，带 T 的物质，物质。

如：没有人比我更疯狂，英语拼写如此无用。

现在，这个声音用在如下词中：madder、梯子、谜语、摇篮、伙伴、学院。

它也用于将以 D 结尾的单词连接到以元音或双元音开头的单词，

例如：had a– I have a great time！

有一个 - 有一个 -

好主意。

这是个好主意！

好主意。

请注意，“idea”中的 D 是真 D，

因为它位于重读音节的开头，所以更强烈、更清晰。

主意。

这是个好主意。

难过——

我对英语不是一种语音语言感到难过。

可悲的是——

好吧，这将我们带到了停止 D，或更准确地说是未释放的

D。未释放的 D 类似于停止 T。

请记住，停止辅音有两个部分

，气流停止，和有释放。

对于未释放的 D 或停止 T，您所拥有的只是气流停止，您不释放空气。

那么如何判断您使用的是 Stop T 还是 Stop D？

听者如何分辨？

早些时候，我告诉过你要记住，你使用声带来发出 D 辅音。

这就是变得非常重要的地方。

对于非母语人士来说，未发布的 D 出现问题是很常见的。

对于他们来说，这听起来就像是 Stop T，但它不应该。

对于 Stop T，您使用非常短暂的气流和声音停止。

例如，SAT，sat，sat，sat there——

这意味着你实际上可以在不将舌头抬起

到上牙后面的情况下进行停T。坐，坐，坐在那里——坐在那里——

你不能为未释放的 D 做到这一点。

对于未释放的 D，你想要同样短暂的气流停止，

但因为它是一个浊辅音，你的声带仍然会发出声音。

伤心，伤心。

难过——

你听到未发行的 D 的声音质量吗？

伤心。 Dddd–

这是站 T 和未发布的 D 背靠背：

星期六。

伤心。

星期六。

伤心。

星期六。

伤心。

因为你继续使用你的声带来演奏未释放的 D，

所以 SAD，sad，这个词中的元音

看起来会比 SAT，sat 中的长。

伤心。

星期六。

我坐在那里等着。

我很难过圣诞节不会下雪。

坐在那里——

伤心在那里——

坐在那里——

伤心

在那里——所以要记住停止 T 和未释放 D 之间的

区别，停止 T 是气流和声音的完全停止。

但未释放的D只是气流的停止。

你的声带继续振动并发出声音。

我们什么时候使用未发布的 D？

当 D 出现在短语的结尾时，您可以使用这个 D：

我真的很生气。

我真的很高兴。

疯狂的。

高兴的。

当 D 后面跟着一个辅音时，您也可以使用它，

并且您想将这些单词连接在一起。

晚安。

好，晚安。

赚了钱。

油炸食物。

连续有两个。油炸食物。

油炸食物。

现在，您可能想知道当 D 辅音出现在单词的末尾时会怎样，

但它是在一个集群中，如朋友或发送，或持有？

当它出现在暗 L 之后，如在保持或被叫时，

你也可以在那里使用这个未释放的 D。

抱着宝宝。

握住。

抱着宝宝。

拿着我的包。

抓住。

拿着我的包。

打电话给餐厅。

叫。

叫那个——叫餐厅。

然而，当你在 N 辅音之后有这个 D 时，

更常见的是使用另一种形式

的 D。Droped D，我们的第四个发音。

我们只是不说。我们放弃它。

所以如果我说：这是我的朋友，迈克。

你注意到我放弃了 D 音。

朋友。迈克——朋友。朋友。

这是我的朋友，迈克。

当以 ND 簇结尾的单词链接到后面的辅音时，这很常见。

即使以 ND 结尾的单词是复数形式，您通常也可以去掉

D。Hands、minds、ponds、winds、sounds。

所有这些，删除了 D。

现在，

当 ED 结尾之前的辅音发声时，您还会听到以 ED 结尾的单词。

让我们看一些例子。

命名，命名我——

在随意的演讲中，你会听到母语人士在这里放下 D 并说。

给我命名——给我命名——

上下文帮助听者知道它被命名了。

这是有人这样做的剪辑。

我说它的意思是“精彩”。你叫我厉害？你为什么改变它？

取名为我——棒极

了？

我说它的意思是“精彩”。你叫我厉害？你为什么改变它？

另一个例子：住过，住过那里——

同样，以母语为母语的人会在这里放弃 D。

住在那里，住在那里。

即使在这样的正式场合：

所以当你住在卡平特里亚时，你一直住在那里–一直住在那里–

一直

–

所以当你住在卡平特里亚时，你一直住在那里–

在这些情况下，不会一直发生丢弃 D 的情况。

您会听到母语人士非常迅速地释放 D 音，在这些情况下也很轻。

叫我——叫我——我，我。

住在那里——那里，那里。住在那里——

但是Drop D是如此普遍，我们不得不谈论它。

现在，第五，我刚才提到的 D 辅音的快速轻放，命名为我——我，我，

是另一种发音。我称之为迷你版。

当 D 辅音连接到一个辅音时，就会发生这种情况，

并且不是未释放，而是释放得非常快和轻。

通常是因为它实际上更难发音为未发行的 D。

当 D 声音链接到以 R、Y 或 W 声音开头的单词时，这种情况最常见。

一些例子：爸爸跑–爸爸跑–爸爸跑–跑–

非常快的释放。

实际上，在这里保持 D 音会更加困难。

爸爸跑——爸爸跑——

这很难。快速轻松地释放它要容易得多。

爸爸跑——跑——爸爸跑——

但是听听D音是多么快速和安静。

它甚至比 Flap D 还要轻。

爸爸跑——爸爸跑——

疯狂——疯狂——

爸爸跑——

这里有一些其他的例子：

坏天气——坏天气——好年华——

好年华——

试过了瑜伽 -

尝试过瑜伽 -

泰德走路 -

走路 -

泰德走路 - 红色

代码 - 红色

代码 - 付钱给你 -

付钱给你 -

哦，等等。付钱给你——那个听起来不一样。

我们已经到达了我们的第六个也是最后一个 D 发音。

什么时候它可以变成JJ，如跳跃辅音。

当结尾的 D 辅音连接到单词 you 或 your 的 Y 辅音时，就会发生这种情况。

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你的——你能再说一遍吗？

您可以…吗？您可以…吗？

现在，这只发生在你和你的词上，你不需要这样做。

有些母语人士会这样做，有些则不会。

您可以使用 JJ：我们尝试了您的 cookie。

或者您可以使用 Y 辅音：我们尝试了您的 cookie。

试过你的——试过你的——

听起来都很自然，很棒。

嘿！我们做到了。我们通过了 D 的六个发音

。True D、Flap D、unreleased D、dropd D

、mini release D，以及在 jump 中变成 JJ 的 D。

汤姆，非常感谢你的这一课，也感谢你加入我的行列。

如果您还没有订阅，请务必订阅。

我们每周二都会制作新的英语视频

，我们很乐意在这里见到您。

就是这样，非常感谢您使用 Rachel 的英语。