D and T sounds in European Portuguese
Channel: TugaLearning
Date: 2017-11-21

The difference between D and T sounds in European Portuguese. Each word is slowly repeated 3 times, and the selection I made combines different vowels to produce similar sounds.

Basically both D and T sounds are the result of positioning your tongue on the back of your upper teeth just before the syllable is pronounced.
The difference is, when pronouncing the T sound the air is more forcibly exhaled, making the air flow between the tongue and upper teeth (you may slightly feel the air passing on the lower lip). The D sound however, is just the result of moving the tongue out from the upper teeth in order to pronounce the next sound/vowel.

At the end there's a sentence with several sequential examples of both sounds. A simple exercise that you may perform: in each word identify and write down whether it is a D or T the sound without looking at the video.

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