Short instructional video by Hadar Shemesh teaching how to pronounce the word "birthday." The speaker breaks the word into parts ("birth" then the final D), demonstrates transitions between B→R, R→th (allowing air for the voiced/voiceless frication), and the quick tongue movement to form the D, and gives model phrases ("It's my birthday").
Birthday. Let's talk about how to pronounce it, because here you have an R and a th and they connect. So let's figure this out once and for all, because this is a word that you cannot avoid. Birth. You go from the B to the R. Br. No, I bur. And then from the R, where your tongue is pulled in. You stick it out for the th. Relax it. Allow air to pass. Birth.
Soft transition.
Smooth. Birth. Birth. And then you bring the tongue in quickly for the D, right behind the teeth.
Birthday. Birthday. Earth D. Earth. D. Birthday.
It's my birthday. Happy birthday. When's your birthday? Birthday.
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