Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code DRGEOFF for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/drgeoff Secrets of what I consider the most important consonant in English, the various ways it's made, and how it differs from other language. 0:00 Introduction 1:40 Important meanings 3:05 Important endings 4:32 Loudness differences 5:00 Surfshark 6:12 UCL's anechoic chamber 7:24 Spectrograms 9:16 Awkward combinations 9:48 months 11:12 Assimilation: howzat 11:52 TH-fronting 13:07 English and Spanish 14:05 English and Japanese 15:57 Articulation: reality check 18:39 The alternative: lips! Thanks to: Gordon Mills of Psychology & Language Sciences, UCL Hernán Ruiz for help with Spanish Prof. Masaki Taniguchi for help with Japanese Animation of vocal tract by Speech Graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYwk07QM4rc British National Corpus http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/