Have You Learned to Pronounce the Letter C?

This article mainly demonstrates the rules for pronouncing the letterC with the sound /k/.

/k/ is a consonant phoneme, belonging to plosive, velar, and voiceless consonants. When pronouncing, the back of the tongue rises and touches the soft palate, holding back the air, and then suddenly releases, allowing the airflow to exit the mouth, forming a plosive sound.

Now let’s see how we should correctly produce the sound /k/.

1. 1) First, the back of the tongue rises, tightly against the soft palate, holding back the air to completely block the airflow channel.

2. 2) Open your mouth, quickly lower the back of your tongue, and when the tongue leaves the soft palate, the airflow suddenly rushes out of the mouth.

Note: /k/ is a voiceless consonant, the vocal cords do not vibrate, and the sound produced is from the airflow, so be careful to distinguish it from /g/.

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PS:

C before e or i/y will produce the sound /s/, for example: