Phonetics: /ʃ/

In British English, the phonetic symbol /ʃ/ corresponds to the initial consonant sound in words like "shoe", and "she" and the final one in "push" and "fish".

Initial pronunciation of /ʃ/:

• she - shine - shoe - shop - should - sugar - sure;

Final pronunciation of /ʃ/:

• bush - cash - crash - dish - flash - push - wash;

"Mid"-position:

• Asia - fashion - mission - option - partial - patient - pressure - rational - station.

While Spanish does have /tʃ/, it doesn't have /ʃ/, so there'll be a tendency to pronounce "shoes" as "choose", "shop" as "chop" and "sheet" as "cheat" 

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