English Sounds – SH /∫/ and ZH /ʒ/ – How to Say

English is full of difficult sounds. Some of them are challenging for Spanish and Chinese speakers, but may be easy for Russian and French people .
In this lesson we are going to compare the difficult sounds SH /∫/ and ZH /ʒ/.
They are called fricatives in English. The ‘SH sound‘ is voiceless; the ‘ZH sound‘ is voiced.

Look at the articulation of these sounds:

And now let’s see how to make the sounds SH /∫/ and ZH /ʒ/ and practice them:

Let’s look at some pairs and repeat:

• emotion – erosion
• excursion – exclusion
• invention – invasion
• ancient – Asian

If you want to practice tongue twisters with ‘SH’ sound, click here.