English winners. In this pronunciation
lesson, we're going to go over the F and
the V sounds. In a previous video, we
worked on F and P sounds. This time, we're
going to work on F and V sounds. This is
important, because the F and the V sounds
have the exact same mouth movements.
Some language trouble spots: the Russians
always confuse the V sound with a W.
I've also noticed that people with an
Indian accent will have the same issue.
Like... instead of 'I'm very very excited'
they'll say 'I'm weady weady excited'...
something like that. Koreans and Japanese
speakers learning English often confuse
their
V with the B sound, because there is
no V in their language. I once was
making fun of one of my students who was
in Middle School showing a picture of a
page on one of her textbooks and how it
looked like her skin color, and she said
'No, I am i'm White-uu. Barry Barry White-uu.' So she didn't know how to say 'very'
she said 'Barry', and it was funny, but
that's not what we're going for here.
Also koreans and japanese confuse the F
sound with the P sound, so instead of
'people' they might say feeple or instead
of Fort they'll say Port... things like that
and the important thing is the V&F
sounds are not in their alphabet, so this
is a sound that needs to be taught. Also
Mandarin Chinese... they will often replace
their B sound with a W - like
the Russians - or an F...
it just depends on the word. I don't have
any examples here right now, so let's
just keep going.
Lastly, Arabic speakers... the V sound is
often replaced with an F
- much like some Mandarin words for the
Chinese speakers - so we're going to fix
all these issues, whatever language you
speak,
starting now. Here's how you say the F
sound. you tuck your lower lip underneath
your upper front teeth, right there. An
exaggerated version is really annoying
but it will help you remember: it looks
like this. Now I don't want you to walk
around like this - it looks very silly - but
it helps you understand what your lips
are doing, so tuck your lower lip
under your upper front teeth just a
little, and then let air come out, "F, F, F"
okay? That's your F sound. Now, the V
sound is a little bit different: the
mouth movements, the lips, the tongue...
everything's the same, but the difference
is here: this is called a voiced
consonant, so we're going to vibrate the
vocal cords here. To do that, just close
your lips like this and imagine you are
in India listening to someone meditating
and they're going "MMMMM"... So that sound right
here "MMM", that's the vibration in your vocal
cords... and you can turn it on and off, so
with the F sound it's turned off, but
turn it on and you've got the V sound. So
'FFF' plus 'MMM" and you've got the 'VVV' sound. It kind of
sounds like my iphone when it's on
vibrate.
Maybe it does for you, too. Now, we're going
to practice the F&V sound using words
and we're gonna throw those words right
up on the board behind me. Alright, this
word list is going to be pretty simple. I
just made it really short here, but we're
going to go over everything the same way.
We're going to start on one side with
the F sounds and then we're going to go to
the other side and do the V sounds, and
then we'll go back and forth, right? All
the way down...
Let's begin: 'Fat, Ferry, Foist, Belief,
Feel.'
Let's go to the V sounds: 'Vat, Very,
Voiced, Believe, Veal.'
Now practice this a couple more times;
you can go back to this point in the
video and do it again as often as you
like. Until then, let's practice words
like these in the sentences. Sentence
Time. "Some people believe that eating
more fat will make them very healthy." "The
staff served vegetables, veal, and four
varieties of desert." "The people strived
to stay alive, but the vortex swallowed
them into the ocean." "The doctor used
forceps to remove the sliver of metal
from my stomach." "I felt that the
five-dollar parking fee was very
expensive."
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