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00:00This is the H sound, as in the words have, he and home.
00:12It's the sound from the single consonants group.
00:17The H sound is called the voiceless glottal fricative,
00:23which means the sound is made with the motion of your vocal cords,
00:27but it's not voiced.
00:31The H sound is made through the mouth and is aspirated,
00:36which means air comes out of your mouth as you say the sound,
00:40and you don't vibrate your vocal cords.
00:43But it is defined by the position of your vocal cords because it's a fricative.
00:48Fricatives are sounds which are made by bringing two parts of your mouth or throat
00:54very close together and pushing air through them.
00:57In this case, that's your vocal cords.
01:00The H sound doesn't have a specific mouth shape,
01:05but it normally takes the shape from the following sounds.
01:09To produce the sounds, constrict your throat and breathe out through your mouth.
01:15The shape of your mouth doesn't matter as much.
01:21It'll probably just be whatever shape you're making in the next sound.
01:24The H sound is spelled with the letter H,
01:32though in a few words it's spelled with a WH,
01:35as in whole, who and whom.
01:46Here are some example words that start with the H sound.
01:51in the middle.
01:52Behind.
01:53Perhaps.
01:54Behaviour.
01:55How.
01:56Human.
01:57How.
01:58Human.
01:59Happen.
02:00How.
02:01Human.
02:02Happen.
02:03Help.
02:04Here are some words with the H sound in the middle.
02:09Behind.
02:10Perhaps.
02:11Behaviour.
02:12Behind.
02:13Perhaps.
02:14Behaviour.
02:15Ahead.
02:16To see the pronunciation, explanation and examples for another sound, click on its symbol.
02:37To learn about the groups of sounds, vowels, diphthongs, single consonants or consonant pairs, click on the links to the left.
02:46And to hear just the pronunciation of an individual symbol, check out our interactive phonetic chart video.
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