How to pronounce ض like an ARAB Lesson 8 Arabic 101

but is unique sound in fact it is so unique that this sound defines all of the Arabic language as the language of blood because it's only found in Arabic that sound must not be confused with that sound and in fact they use different techniques for pronunciation the LA sound requires that the sides of the tongue be pressed up against the roof of your mouth while the tip of your tongue touches the area behind your front upper teeth which we call the alveolar Ridge the tip of the tongue should be touching this area without pressing to apply this technique correctly we're going to break it down to some movements and steps first you need to try and press the sides of your tongue against the roof of your mouth remember only the sides of your tongue and not all of it so this blue dotted area as you can see in this chart is where you should be pressing your tongue and not all of it next you need to touch the area behind the front upper teeth using the tip of your tongue remember touching is not pressing the reason for this is that if you press air won't be able to escape or produce the sound so touch to keep the air momentarily in this area before releasing it and thus creating the sound so as you can see that yellow dotted area is where your tongue should be making contact or just touching without pressing so the blue area you're pressing the yellow area is just touching now we're going to try to combine these two movements together and see how it sounds also don't forget to make the jaw movement the jaws should be moving away from each other to give space for air to move out of your mouth so it should sound like this bah and since there is air trap for short while and then released you will ideally hear the sound in your head before actually hearing it or pronouncing it so in the first part of the sound menu this is support you're supposed to hear it in your head before actually pronouncing the sound the size of your tongue are not pressed properly you will either here at that sound or you're not gonna hear anything at all why are we going to hear death sound now the death sound the technique of the death sound is pretty similar to the law the only difference is that there is no pressing of the tongue against the roof of the mouth so that is produced just by the touching the tip of the tongue to the alveolar Ridge or the area behind the upper front teeth so if this pressing of the tongue is not there you will not hear the sound but you'll hear that that sound and that is something that you have to keep in mind because this is one of the most common mistakes that people make when they learn the lock sound now it's time to hear some minimal pairs to identify the differences between death and BA once you be able to hear the difference it is time for you to practice to get it right well ball del del what that what that bet Furber Furber third third ted near tab near ted near tell near now if you don't get it right the first couple of attempts don't give up but is arguably one of the most difficult sounds in Arabic and actually not all native Arabs can actually pronounce it properly so do your best don't give up too soon so there's going to be the end of listen everyone hope you learned something new today if you did please like share the video and of course subscribe for my channel and see you next time select