How to Make the V Sound Lesson Excerpt American English Pronunciation RachelsEnglish

in this video I’m working with my friend

from Turkey on the m/v sound of the most

yellow King ever ok beloved hello ok

it’s another beat mama love it

good one more time and just make it a

little bit longer blow it I didn’t hear

it all that time below but beloved love

it ok love it beloved love it’s good

here you mispronounced is the V as a w

which I have previously noted in another

blog entry when lips to this it’s not a

V the lips must do this mmm must have

been have have been very beautiful very

very very yes very beautiful here in the

word carved he stops the sound in the

middle carved carved it almost sounds

like a be car car carved carved

delicately cow carved as if as if here

the v carved carved here in the word

every he pronounces the v sort of as a

mix between a w and then our and his

lips take this position arre arre hmm

it’s really all about the lip position

in this sound every deal is perfect in

every detail as as if they were new I

liked her as if you but I didn’t hear

that every every detail every detail as

if David I still hear a V I here’s all

of the sound every every every yeah

every here in the word of he started to

move his lip up into the correct

position but he stopped making sound

with his vocal cords if he had continued

to pass air it would have sounded like a

F but he did not even do that he didn’t

continue to pass air and he didn’t make

a sound with his vocal cords

which meant that the sound just kind of

tapered off at the end of the word o of

hmm very important to keep making sound

here o printing um Oh Oh green tea no

love again oh um oh I don’t hear I hear

oh uh yeah not off oh good here again

his habit showed of not bringing the lip

up he was making more of a bow or

perform with his lips hmm

move you hate these do you have V in

Turkish no yeah you do

yeah be him but it’s different somehow

it’s bad not hmm okay so let’s do

luggage moveable moveable yeah moveable

good here again the lips came into this

position the correct position of course

is so it’s important to note when you’re

making the V correct you will always see

some teeth who it shoes achievements

achievements achievements achievements

moveable carved every hmm

as I noted in the blog F and V practice

this sound in words sometimes is

extremely short but it is very important

to make sure that you keep producing

sound here with the chords and that you

bring your lip up even if it’s just for

a very brief Oh as long as you have the

lip coming up and the vocal cords making

sound you’ll be good