ribbit hi I'm Ronnie do you have
problems saying the difference between B
and P in English huh
don't worry it's okay the reason why you
have a problem with this is because in
your native language you don't have a B
pal V sound or a piece out it's okay I'm
here to help you I'm going to teach you
the pronunciation of B and P first of
all let's look at the written words so
the B or the written letter the be like
this is a capital or a big B and then we
have the lowercase or the small B then
we have the P capital P and lowercase P
it is the same mouth movement that we're
going to make so this is why it's
confusing but there's one huge
difference and the difference is voiced
and unvoiced now a B sound will always
be voiced voiced means that it will
vibrate are in your throat so if you put
your hand here and you make the B sound
ba ba ba ba ba it's going to always
vibrate in your vocal cords so try the
Berber oh that's fun bar bar bar do it
at home don't do this on the subway
people might think you're crazy if
you're want to say the word that's
unvoiced the letter that's on voice it's
so any unvoiced letter it's not going to
vibrate so check this out
one is PUD does not vibrate but the B ba
ba ba will vibrate to make the sound you
put both of your lips over your teeth
and blow out air it's like you're
smoking with a P but the be the only
difference is you make your vocal chords
vibrate voiced BRR BRR BRR and
the best way to practice with these
sounds that are difficult for you we
call minimal pairs so minimal pairs are
two words that have very very similar
the pronunciation but we've got our
problem we've got the B sound and the P
sound together so if you practice them
together hopefully it will improve your
you will improve your English so the
first word what we're going to do is
we're going to go through the B sounds
now when you do this you can put your
hand on your neck or your throat and
make sure that there's a vibration so if
we say Bob a try good do it again
bay-buh
you should feel the vibration next word
we have this big blob of a big by bass
but then we also have the B and the P at
the end of the word it's okay just make
sure you vibrate the last part pub robe
now this one's in the middle and then we
have the beginning bleed Bubba bleed so
I want you to practice the B make bit
but make sure that when you say it your
throat is moving or vibrating excellent
okay
when we say the P we don't have to
vibrate or move our vocal cords it's
more like you're blowing out air so we
have play play
pig pie pace put pup no this we have
double or double P so it's pop rope and
then plead this one's a little bit
difficult because you've got to get the
L as well as plead so I would like you
to now practice the sound remember do
not vibrate your vocal cords when you do
this great okay so what we're gonna do
now is we're gonna put the two words
together and these are our minimal pairs
we're going to say the words across like
this so you can practice the sound and
make sure you're saying them differently
so we're going to do this bay-buh babay
and play bei play the next pair are the
big and pig big pig by pi bass pace but
put I'll let you practice those
when we have this
at the end of the word it's the same
idea you just have to make sure you
vibrate so we have pub and pop robe rope
at the beginning again we have bleed and
plead you try now alright on to
something a little bit more difficult
this is the master level if you're ready
if I put these words into a sentence
this is where you're going to have to
focus and concentrate on actually
vibrating or blowing the smoke so repeat
after me the Big Pig played with the
blade the Big Pig played with the blade
so again the B sounds are always going
to be vibrated bah bah bah bah and the P
sounds are not gonna have a vibration Oh
delicious next one I drank a beer on the
pier
drink a beer on the pier so we have two
words that are minimal pairs in the
sentence this one actually has four
words that are minimal pairs this one's
a little bit more difficult I gave that
to you first did you do it now appears
like a doc up here is something that you
can sit on and you're close to the water
maybe the ocean or the lake and you can
enjoy a beer or you can't depends and
the last one we have the bear that's
right
eight pair pairs of fruits it is not red
sometimes our red looks like this they
can be this shaped or they can also be
around depending on where you are the
bear ate up pair do you think you can do
it so I want you to practice remember
the B sound
bababababa will always vibrate and the P
sound will not vibrate if you're having
problems with the B and the P send me
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name is Ronnie I'm out here bye bye