In this video we have a look at the two affricate sounds in English: the unvoiced affricate /tʃ / and the voiced affricate /dʒ/. Sometimes these two sounds are also called semi-plosives. This is because they are formed by combining a plosive sound with a fricative. We glide from the plosive directly to the fricative and form a new sound: an affricate! If you do not know what plosives or fricatives are, do not worry! Just watch my two videos on them – see links below.

I will show you how to form both affricate sounds (officially they are called alveo-palatal sounds) and then we go over some example words so you can practise the pronunciation and see typical spelling patterns in common English words. Both sounds are very common in English, so I would encourage you to practise them both until you get them right! Last but not least, I will show you some minimal pairs for /tʃ / & /dʒ/.