Affricates

/ʧ/

Sound pronunciation:

Examples:

• Cheap
• Child
• Match
• Chalk

Other Spellings:

• tch: butcher
• ture: picture
• t: question
• tune: fortune

Other important words:

• Cherry, lunch, chocolate, children, checking,

/ʤ/

There is no similar independent sound in Spanish. We can speal of a similar sound when we pronounce 'y' emphatically. This sound is usually written with the letters:

• j: joke
• g/e: German, gentleman, vegetables
• dj: adjust
• di: soldier