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as in <THINK> and as in <THIS> Listen
Norwegian learners' problems. Listen: We don't have these sounds in Norwegian. They may be produced either by 1) putting the tip of your tongue up towards the back of your upper front teeth or by 2) putting it out between your upper and lower front teeth, and blowing. The effect is more or less the same, but when teaching the sounds to others it may be easier to concentrate on the second variant. Norwegians tend to use a /t/ or /d/-sound instead of and , particularly in small, but important words like the, them, etc., and when the sounds occur between vowels, as in author and mother.
think, thumb, author, birthday, thirteenth, bath, teeth, breaththis, those, brother, father, bathe, teething, breathe
Regional variant: Some speakers of the broad London accent (often referred to as Cockney), tend to drop their "th"-sounds and replace them by /f/ and /v/, so that thought becomes and mother becomes .
SPELLING BOX:
Both sounds are spelt <th>
thing, they
