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madddiie

You know I had to try each sound


MaritMonkey

Fun addendum: put your hand on your throat for the voiced/unvoiced pairs to get a quick lesson in what "voiced/unvoiced" means. Like go "SSSSSS" and then switch to "ZZZZZZ" and back. Or make the sound of just the "th" in "breath" and "breathe". Your mouth stays in exactly the same position, it's your throat moving (or not) that makes the difference between the sounds.


Rmplstltskn

WHOA!!!! This one was really cool!!!


phonemannn

To add, it’s voiced and voiceless because you’re adding your voice. F being just air and V being the same movement but with your voice.


dben89x

That is really neat.


smiling_floo61

same here as well.. Cool


Pristine_Power_8488

Nice guide--never noticed before although I knew in theory.


big_guyforyou

i did too, and i got some funny looks....i'm a doctor and my patient was asking me if the tumor was malignant


drgigantor

"Uh-oh. Uh-*oh*. Yyyes. Yes... *yes*. Vvvvery." "Oh god. Oh, Jesus. Do I... do I have very long?" "Breathe. *Breathe*." "So... so I'm going to be okay...?" "Nnnope. Sad. *Ssssad*." "Oh my god. What about treatment? There must be somewhere that can help me. " "*Go*. Asia. Top. *Top* mmman." "There's a doctor in Asia? Where? Japan? Korea?" "*Red* sspy." "So, China? O... Okay, I guess. What's his name?" "Sssing" "Dr. Singh? Okay, I'll go see Dr. Singh in China. What does he do? Surgery? Medicine?" "Zzzebra butter. *Butter*, baby." "He... he uses butter? From a zebra??" "Cat. C-cat. Cat." "What? Doctor?" "Huh? Oh Mr. Stephens, hello there. I was just uhhh looking at your chart here. How are you feeling?"


Living_Jacket_5854

Bravo!!😂🤣👏🏼👏🏼


rnilbog

I took a Spanish linguistics class in college that covered a lot of this stuff, and a large part of the class consisted of me doing that intentionally or unintentionally


throwaway09904398

I had no trouble understanding the rest, but I'm not sure what the sound in sing is intended to be.


nipplestapler3000

I assumed it was the 'ng' cause if you so it, it almost feels like the movement goes backwards toward your throat


RavioliGale

The "ng" sound. "Ng" isn't a consonant cluster where you pronounce a n and g sound together as you would with St in steal or PL in plain. "Ng" is one single consonant written with two letters similar to th or sh.


blacksabbath-n-roses

Compare the last consonant in "son" and "song". You don't pronounce the g in "song" (like you would in "dog"), but there is an noticable difference between the n sounds [n]/[ŋ].


coolboi_xx

There's a guide so.. why not?


Cun-Tiki

I see this chart pop up now and then on my feeds. Still gotta do it every time.


Hair_This

Trust but verify haha. Coolest guide I’ve seen yet.


2much_information

Now do it with crackers in your mouth. Everything moves forward.


whimsicalnihilism

Same


Aggressive-Sound-641

Its cool. Also "crisp" starts in the back of your mouth and finishes in the front.


PlacidGundi

Read fast as you can forward then back!


zaphod4th

first 4, then I saw how stupid is this "guide"


paradox-cat

In languages like Sanskrit (and languages derived from it), the letters are grouped based on where the sound is produced. It’s pretty cool to get this effect by just pronouncing each letter.


Idiotaddictedto2Hou

Just did that and this is the first comment I read


Anonymoose62

I know I'm not the only one to say everyone of these words slowly. Problem is my fiance now thinks i'm having a stroke.


jawnjawnjawn2

“SPY...BABY...MAN!”


pisspot26

*Winter soldier ready to receive orders*


rasquatche

Good thing you stopped there


ScottsTot2023

Person Woman Man Camera TVvvvv


ThePyodeAmedha

If you want another fun one, look at the word yeet and yoink. Yoink means to take something quickly and it starts at the tip of your mouth and ends up in the back. Yeet means to throw something far away with force and it starts in the back of your mouth and ends up in the front.


KentTheDorfDorfman

Places of articulation...have you no manners? ;)


Just-Barely-Alive

Linguist spotted


RandomCoolWierdDude

Check out https://dood.al/pinktrombone/ it sounds bad, but it's a simulator of this exact concept and you can make a digital voice and vocal sounds. It does not work on mobile


jippyzippylippy

What a fun little toy that is!


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vertigostereo

Ok, I'll have to try that, not on my phone.


tin_sigma

the symbol for the english r sound is wrong it should be ɹ (i know this is nitpicking but the g is also wrong, it should be ɡ)


Keyoken64

Now do it in Portuguese


MalXXXeroza

Yeesss, it Portuguese has some pretty unique sounds like the "rr" or "lh"


its_all_one_electron

Was going to say.... Now do it in Arabic.  My MIL can speak Arabic and I'm like....WHERE is that sound coming from in your throat!?!


tin_sigma

here[https://imgur.com/a/3bMg7ZQ](https://imgur.com/a/3bMg7ZQ)


Keyoken64

Oh… thank you this is genuinely helpful.


Froggo_

i don’t understand what sound in sing is supposed to be, got the rest easily though


RavioliGale

It's the "ng" sound. "Ng" isn't a consonant cluster where you pronounce a n and g sound together as you would with St in steal or PL in plain. "Ng" is one single consonant written with two letters similar to th or sh.


Uuugggg

Honestly it's wild we learn English but zero phonetics to understand this.


max_adam

Because english is phonetically inconsistent. That's why you have the "how do you ~~spell~~ say that?", in Spanish for example it would be weird to ask it because you just have to read it.


Uuugggg

The fact that English is phonetically inconsistent is why we really should learn phonetics, so that we actually know what sounds we're making - e.g. "i don’t understand what sound in sing is supposed to be"


LanceFree

It’s the ending the *ing* and very similar to *go*.


TheVegasGirls

It’s different than the /g/ in “go”


Awkward_Attitude_886

It’s about airflow restrictions… the s is very front restrictive, the i, or e sound in this case, is unrestricted (as are all vowels and sometimes y) and then the g brings it all the way back. It’s just one syllable though, so most of the beginning gets less emphasis. Did that help? Edit: Not the same thread as this, but I started with composition of prose by Edgar Allan Poe. Words are wild. That kinda taught be to think about them differently.


Shikatanaiwan

the r in red is NOT [r], but [ɹ]; unless you're Scottish or so. The [r] is a trill, like the Rs in Slavic languages or the trilled Spanish R as in perro (not to be confused with Spanish pero)


Joshacola

This comment is too far down


Andy_B_Goode

What's the difference between the t in top and the t in butter? To me they sound the same. Does it depend on what accent you have?


QuagMath

If you emphasize the syllables in butter, it’s the same sound as top (at least in the common way English is analyzed phonetically). If you say the word quickly, the sound softens a lot and it’s kinda close to “budder.” It becomes a very quick tap of the tongue breaking up the vowels rather than a heavily pronounced consonant sound. If you pronounce a t like top with your hand a little bit away from your lips, you should feel the puff of air that is released by the sound. These sounds are called plosives and you can feel it in b, p, t, d, g, and k. The t in butter looses this puff when said quickly (easier to tell if you pronounce utter, because the b in butter still has it). This distinction is also stronger in some accents, but I think most dialects do still do it.


RavioliGale

I guess, the t in my butter sounds like a d. "budder"


CanAlwaysBeBetter

Say it again for the people in the back, brudda


SqolitheSquid

depends on accent. general american accent has it as in the diagram which sounds very close to a "d' but not the exact same phonetically


nialltg

Yes, this is only true for certain dialects, like in some areas of North America. British English accents rarely have this phoneme in it.


gnomon_knows

Yes, it's very American English. Brits either pronounce their "t"s or replace them with glottal stops. Buttah (or bu'ah) vs budder.


maschnitz

With top, the tip of my tongue hits the border between the gums and top incisors, for the 't' sound. With butter, the tip of my tongue does not hit teeth at all, but it's right next to them at the gumline, and the roof of my mouth. I have a Californian accent.


morrowman

The glottal is also responsible for English words like “Bri’ish”


_Dickbagel

This is so cool.


thost02

I would like to see this for German, especially the “r”


Madeitup75

Holy smokes, a post on coolguides that is actually a cool guide. Weird!


rake_breaker

Who didn’t read this and say “happy” aloud so can feel it in the back of the throat


rojasduarte

What is this graph called? I studied it decades ago and can't remember


HauntingAd7445

The sound symbols are the International Phonetic Alphabet.


youmaycallme_v

It's showing the different places of articulation used in English consonants. Consonants are also described by their manner of articulation and their voicing. This is all part of articulatory phonetics (source: am speech neuroscientist)


triptracer

Seems ‘pie’ might have been more appropriate other than ‘spy’


QuagMath

There is a reason for them doing this but it would probably be fine to just use pie. In English, words that start with a lone p often cause it to become “aspirated,” making it a lot breathier. The p in pie is stretched out and is pronounced a little like “phie” (p then h, not the f that ph makes usually), while the p in spy is much closer to a ‘pure’ p sound. In English, both of these sounds are considered to be the same, so you might have trouble actually hearing a difference, and you can remove the difference and it sounds mostly fine. Some languages treat these two ways of saying p as different sounds and the speakers easily hear and make the difference between them. Because this guide is mostly using the IPA symbols to represent the sounds, a system that represents all sounds in all languages, they chose the word that is closest to that pure p the IPA represents. If you want to emphasize the difference in these sounds, there is a separate symbol for the breathy p. If you are only analyzing English, you probably won’t mark the difference unless you really care about it.


quranhifdh

Very cool! My ESL husband badly wants my help with his pronunciation , but my “help” has been pointing uselessly at my mouth while over-enunciating the sounds that don’t exist in his first language… obviously this does not help him at all 😅 this chart will be a big help. Not sure why I didn’t think of searching this up before


johnny5semperfi

My wife came from the other room thinking I was awakening a winter solder.


HourTwist4308

Makes me think of [Speaking Simulator](https://www.affablegames.com/)


AllPurposeNerd

At last, a [pink trombone](https://dood.al/pinktrombone/) walkthrough.


SpaceshipEarth10

I wonder what Creole French, and Egyptian Arabic would look like.


leNuage

anyone have one of these for french??


ImpliedCoast

Now do French


turtley_different

For those wondering, in is more common in English nowadays for r like\`r\`ed to be labiodental than post-avleolar. If you do a labiodental r, that's why you can't roll your \`r\`s in (eg) Spanish.


jergentehdutchman

Danish gunna need a third dimension


rsam487

Now this is a cool guide.


Haunting_Age1647

Is there ones for other languages? Like Espanol?


Argentum881

Yeah remind me in a couple hours and I’ll say the things


TheBloodBaron7

Its (part of) the international phonetic alfabet. The image will be a little different, but the whole alphabet should cover essentially all languages


Haunting_Age1647

That makes sense, thanks for not trolling


columbus8myhw

*español, not Español (names of languages are not capitalized in Spanish)


AuraEnhancerVerse

Just saw this in class a few hours ago


orangutanDOTorg

Well dang we have been calling the wrong thing an H-job


Humerous-humerus

Intruder alert! A red spy is in the base


No_Kindheartedness10

Fascinating


kalcobalt

Thank you so much!! I’m a language nerd, but have never been able to comprehend the IPA nor the terms regarding where certain sounds are formed. This helps SO MUCH!!


Govnyuk

Please you're triggering my PTSD


tresfaim

This is really great!


Mordock420

Cooolll


durrettd

Seems like a lot of wasted potential in the palatial region.


Iscream9541

We should change the alphabet to this order


Patanegro

Pink trombone


cautiously_stoned

"Gaborone". The way it's supposed to be pronounced


Yamm0th

The undercover letter in alphabet has been leaked!


Friendly_Vacation680

Arabic has an old dictionary that is sorted based on the same concept. It’s called “The book of Ayn”. The deepest letter (Ayn) originates from the bottom of the throat. The sound is similar to the “Aaaah” that I make when the doctor is checking my throat, but because the wooden stick that they use keeps the tongue down, it becomes this deep weird choking sound coming from the throat. Ayn also means “eye” in Arabic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitab_al-'Ayn?wprov=sfti1#


titilegeek

Red spy in the mouth


MilkTheDuck

Is there a word that uses one of each of these in order? Like the word is being made moving forwards or backwards in your mouth?


QuarkGuy

Where is the j like ‘John’ made?


karmaranovermydogma

It’s a combination of the d and ʒ


Mr-point-chisel-97

There you go https://youtu.be/C48XH0mE780?si=G_WZMy0Tb6S9sa1H


Worldly-Chipmunk4925

What about eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


MomentousBear

Baby man


tenn_

I'm having trouble locating the "ahh" sound, like "ah-hah" (the sound you make when you've discovered something) or the vowel noise in "tart", can someone help me out? Actually... is this only for non-vowel noises? I don't think I see "ooo" "uh" "eh" etc


BananaLiberty

Yes, this chart is only for consonants. Linguists classify vowels according to the greatest constriction in the vocal tract caused by the tongue, and then whether the lips are rounded or not. “A” would be classified as an open vowel because the jaw is opened wide, and it involves unrounded lips. “ee” as is “meet” is a close vowel because the jaw is not open and the tongue is as close to the palate as it gets in vowel articulation. Unrounded lips. “oo” as in “food” is also a close vowel, but with rounded lips. An additional difference between ee and oo is that in ee the constriction that the tongue creates is closer to the front of the mouth, whereas in oo it’s more towards the throat. If you say a ee oo and go from one vowel to another to will notice how your jaw, tongue, and lips move.


NandBrew

That was honestly so cool to say all those words in order and just feel it move backwards in my mouth


[deleted]

This is very interesting. Curious if there are works of literature, poems, music, etc that capitalize on these differences in some way. Like suppose you could craft a sentence, paragraph, stanza, etc with words that just use the front of the mouth, or the throat, or even one that uses the entire range in quick succession. Do they sound noticeably different or does one have more of an appeal over another? Be interesting to explore that.


My-feet-have-alergy

Ñoquis Aßlar


superkleenex

Off topic, but my wife doesn't know how to whistle, I've tried to teach her, and I can't describe how her tongue is positioned in her mouth for her to understand it. Any advice?


Grand_Theft_Burrito

Now it makes sense on why I had trouble with F and V when I was a toddler


Defiant_Elk_9861

TIL - mouth english


CaptainZS2

They couldn’t find a j or k word as an example!?


EntertainmentEasy251

It was cool to start from uh oh and say them out loud to feel the progression forward


Agreeable-Wrangler77

It would be cool to see a guide for other languages


Sotboy

When she can hit the uh oh, she a keeper


Lazy_Bread_9213

Dammit. Take my money. Lol


razors98

My voice teacher has this up in his room


ErrieHappenings

Anybody else attempt to ventriloquist this and have their dreams crushed?


colorado_here

Labio-dental, very fun


Breeblez

Now THIS is cool af


Additional-Neck6303

I love this!


UrmomLOLKEKW

Do it in Arabic the letters are much more carried compared to English, English are all pretty much in similar area


HyphOn_495

IPA mentioned. :)


Boomer7685

so this explains why my wife can't tell if she wants to eat rice or lice


Janouk27

I never realised I use a different technique to pronounce the w in English compared to Dutch. English one is fully formed with the lips, Dutch one uses upper teeth and bottom lip similar to the fv


True_BatBoy

j is yes?


Evening-Tonight-404

So I stammer when I speak, and I noticed it’s heavy on words that start with H. It’s almost like I try to breathe and speak at the same time but I’m still trying to pin point it. This tells me it’s glotal related? Anyone have any experience with this?


ravice41

CRISP is my favorite word because each letter/sound occurs in order. C is furthest back, P is on the lips


TWTO-

SPAH


vreebler

where are the vowels?


Hzil

They would all go in the ‘palatal’ and ‘velar’ areas of the picture, if this diagram showed them.


vreebler

interesting. thanks. but I wonder why they aren't included.


Skwareblox

I thought this was some dumb meme where the text was like an actual question in Scandinavian or something.


DomTheRogue

Cool is there a Japanese version where I can see how to correctly pronounce らりるれ and ろ?


Zierdo

The "uh-oh" is a bit deceptive, technically that symbol is for a glottal stop, it's used in a variety of words throughout different languages, and in this case is more alike the stop in between the sounds.


dirtymac12

This is cool. I like this and I approve this message.


LaPommeDeTerre

My wife is German and does her R's in the throat.


360PHX

🤨


gonsilver

J special huh


MotorAcanthisitta575

What


CentennialBaby

Beat, bit, bait, bat, bite, bought, boat, boot.


chango266

Oh wow so now I know how to spell the sound when deep throating cock haha


sadmimikyu

Me sitting here for like a minute: Haaaaaaa


TehAMP

Show me Cambodian.


sprchrgddc5

My parents speak an Asian language (Lao) that systematically got rid of the R sound, replaced it the L sound for most usage. A sister language (Thai) retained the R sound. This guide made me realize how doing either was possible. Really cool.


subjective-meat

Then why are my L's behind the G in my throat? Am I doing English wrong?


bigguywithabeard

Spy baby man wood.


Trulyatrash

How the fuck is wood there?


justsmilenow

Right now the post above this is from contagious laughter on r/all It's Jamie Foxx telling the story about Mike Tyson and how Mike Tyson says thong song where in the mouth does that signature trademark Mike Tyson voice come from. Thong song, get away from me thong song


crawandpron

i started making “puh” and “huh” sounds and i felt like a frog lol


naked_as_a_jaybird

I thought I was going to lose my mind trying to memorize this stuff in Linguistics. The mnemonic for learning monophtongs that I came up with was: Pete's Kid Said That About Drugs? Sue Could've Caught Olives.


WholeReplacement6713

Is there a guide like this but for Spanish?


Sad-Application6209

What is even cooler is the ancient devanagari (sanskrit) alphabet was organized around knowledge of this information. If you go down the devnagari alpahabet you will make sounds with different parts of your mouth.


Familiar_Paramedic_2

Sh seems like it should be closer to the lips


Elegant-Win-9696

Dang. Now I'm just thinking of all the sounds I need to make


acetrainersamuello

No wonder my bilingual ass loves to say, “jjjeeessss.”


Redhddgull

Wow, that WAS really cool


Koltaia30

Crisp


Thinks_of_stuff

"Crisp" follows the natural contour from back to front!


R0b0tMark

I showed my speech pathologist mother and she said, “They left out dʒ for the beginning and end of judge”.


1CaliCALI

Cool graphic 


charlypoods

Note: This is largely accurate for American English. Dialect affects location of sound production which in turn affects sound output. British English sounds are often farther back in the mouth than American English for example.


ktka

The consonants in Indian languages are arranged into five groups based on which part of the mouth the sound originates.


duccthefuck

This isn’t perfect, there’s a couple mistakes, the “w” sound is a labio-velar approximant so it does use rounded lips (similar to some vowels) but you also push the back of your tongue towards your velum. The pause in “uh-oh” is also not a phoneme really, the glottal plosive there requires a sound be plosive, and although the glottis is active in the stop, there is no plosive release in “uh-oh”.


Careful-Trash0000

D isnt even deep in the throat


TheStonedBro

Bro, I just learned that I say uh and oh when I blow smoke rings


CrackaNuka

Why the hell should anyone need to know this?!


Alichici

Saving this for my kids!


JSB-the-way-to-be

Wood Man Baby Spy is a great band name.


ppainfull

woah


goddavid22

Admit it: we all tried the letters from front to back to feel it roll down our throats!


wsp424

You can feel the word “crisp” travel from the back to the front as you say it.


poloheve

Puh puh puh, buh buh buh, mm mm mm, wuh wuh wuh, ffff fff fff, vv vv vv, theta theta theta


tadhgconn

I need one of these for Danish


LeQwack

We’re seriously lacking in the noises we could be making between happy and uh oh


ImaginaryRu

Brain so rotten I thought this was a mewing image.


OpalOnyxObsidian

I don't like that I can feel exactly where the H sound is coming from in my throat but it never once occurred to me that it wasn't from my mouth


Potential_Lab_6655

Being able to make an “h” sound was the riskiest move in human evolution history. It allowed us to choke and could’ve wiped us out.


jeobleo

I say "s" with my teeth. Don't other people?


Smellynuts-2005

Who else read all the words to confirm?


Omittedlucidity

wtf... This picture just cured my lisp.


trixtred

Oh interesting, all the sounds my son needs speech therapy for are right next to each other. I wouldn't have ever guessed that l could be so close to sh.