Thing or Sing? A TH/S Ear Test

thing

/θɪŋ/

vs

sing

/sɪŋ/

The voiceless dental fricative /θ/ is rare cross-linguistically — Korean, Japanese, French, and German all lack it, so learners from those backgrounds default to the nearest sound they do have: /s/.

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This sound doesn't exist in most of the world's languages. Let's see where you land on it.

8 rounds · about 90 seconds

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