English: How to Pronounce T and D consonants: American Accent

[AndreAbsol]

Hi Rachel...you say that t is pronounced like a D...but the d in Dad is not the same d like in bedder (better)

[rachelsenglish]

@AndreAbsol But bitter and bidder would be pronounced the same in American English by most speakers.

[Wh3tst0nE]

cool, and some people, like the character Skyler on Breaking Bad, or iJustine from Youtube pronounce the ending T as TS or something. Get(s) out(s) lol

[ilsupermegamagico]

excellent video :-) I have a problem with the word "important" how do you pronounce the t after the r? is it like the t in the word "party"?

[Jafeya]

Thank you Rachel it is so so helpful!

[labuenanotam091871]

excelent Rachels I'm learning to you thanks a lot

[GodBlessYou2008]

i have a serious problem on pronunciations, american "t".

For me, it usually sounds either "d" or "l".

For example,

getting -> geding (or geling)

I gotta go -> i gala go

native -> nadive (in your case)

cutting -> culing (in your case)

Call of Duty -> Call of Duly

why do i hear like that when those are pronounced by native americans?

[rachelsenglish]

@GodBlessYou2008 Watch the video attached here as a response. It will help answer some of your questions. It is very common to hear the T as a D (but it isn't pronounced as an L, ever. For example, call of duty would be call of dudy, but not duly.)

[GodBlessYou2008]

@rachelsenglish hi Rachel, thanks for your reply. i actually have to go to US next month to give a short oral presentation. it makes me nervous bit now. so i wanted to get used to american english as much as possible. thanks for your videos. =D

[sunshine112228]

"The lip position of those sounds is influenced by the sound that comes next." For that sentence, is it true that the T or D in the words "sound","that" and "next" are pronounced without the second part? Thank you so much

[rachelsenglish]

@sunshine112228 I think I understand your question ... The D might not be completed (What's it sound' like?, for example). The T in that, the release might be skipped (see the video on T pronunciations). The T on next won't be dropped if it's the last word, but could be dropped in a sentence, for example, "the nex'day."

[sunshine112228]

@rachelsenglish thanks for your answer. I think I misunderstood you, according to what you said in the video,"Stop consonants are sometimes pronounced without the second part, without this release, when they come at the end of a syllable or a word." I thought the T or D can be pronounced with just the stop as long as they are at the end of a syllable. My question is how I can predict whether words that end with T or D are pronounced with just the stop?

[rachelsenglish]

@sunshine112228 First of all, you can always pronounce them with the full sound. That is NOT wrong. However, it is also not how most people talk in everyday conversation, and it might make your speech more choppy than it has to be. I'm going to add a video here as a response called T pronunciations that might help.

Best,

Rachel

[sunshine112228]

@rachelsenglish THANK YOU SO MUCH for making the videos about T sound. You have answered so many questions I have been wondering. I have been living in Canada for 7 years and it's the first time somebody could explain so well for this T sound. No wonder it's so hard to master English.

[sunshine112228]

@rachelsenglish THANK YOU SO MUCH for making the videos about T sound. You have answered so many questions I have been wondering. I have been living in Canada for 7 years and it's the first time somebody could explain so well for this T sound. No wonder it's so hard to master English.

[PLPs2GamesPL]

Sometimes, even the native English speakers, pronounce the sentence "I bet You did" differently. They make the voice somewhere close to the "CH" sound between words "Bet" and "You". And my question is: Is it a mistake? Or it doesn't really matter and the person You are talking to won't be confused. Oh, and one more thing. The word "Intercontinental" which Ts are pronounced as the "flap Ts" and which as the "true Ts". Great video! I naturally subscribed to You.

[rachelsenglish]

@PLPs2GamesPL You're right that a word ending in T and a word starting with Y will sometimes be pronounced as a CH sound (same with D and Y, making a JJ sound). If you look at my most recent video, a conversation study on the subject of ordering breakfast, you'll find an example of T+Y=CH! The waiter pronounced it this way.

[PLPs2GamesPL]

@rachelsenglish Ok. Thank You very much.