To make an /ʌ/ sound open your mouth fairly wide and let your tongue lie at the bottom of your mouth. Let’s look at some examples: hustle touch stunned bus but enough much And some examples before a voiced consonant: dumb lug dumb dull mud fun plug And some sentences: The hustle and bustle touched the dumb lug. Stunned Russel is numb enough and much dull. If you’d like some more practice, look below the video.