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This website was created to help people improve their American English pronunciation. At the core is a series of videos explaining in detail how each sound is created, as well as a blog.
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Though I highly recommend learning via video :), sometimes a book is a nice resource to have. I especially like this one:
The 'h' Sound
How to make this sound:
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The hh sound. Luckily, it's very easy. To make this sound, you simply pass air through your vocal cords, hh, while keeping the mouth totally relaxed.* The jaw drops a bit. The tongue rests on the bottom of the mouth and lightly touches the back of the front teeth. Hh. Happen, have, home. Sample sentence: Perhaps he hasn't heard her happy story.
*NOTE: This is true when you are making the sound alone. When you are saying a word, the mouth assumes the position of the vowel that comes next, as you can see in the video.
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To get technical and the see this sound's occurrence in other languages, see Wikipedia's page.
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