f v Sounds practice American English Pronunciation
I went to practice a bit more with the F
and V sounds to begin the word of it is
spelled o F and it is a common
mispronunciation to say off or off
because it is spelled with an F at the
end but is in fact pronounced as a V of
of and that brings me to the next thing
I want to talk about and that is the V
when it is not pronounced by itself as a
sound hmm but rather when it’s used in a
word of of it’s so quick ever every that
sometimes the bottom lip here doesn’t
actually have time to vibrate to make
that mmm sound but it is important that
you still make sounds with your vocal
cords otherwise it will sound just like
the F sound so it may be just as simple
as oh oh to see how my lip moves so
slightly up into the position whoa and
sound is produced here with the vocal
cords ever every-everything some of my
students have problems hearing the
difference in these sounds when speaking
at a normal pace when I or someone else
is speaking at a normal pace so I’m
going to contrast two words fast and
vast and I’m going to at the beginning
very much exaggerate the beginning
consonant sound and eventually I will
speed it up to normal conversation fast
fast fast fast fast fast fast fast
did you hear a difference there towards
the end what the difference is is that
as I said a sound has to start here so
fast when you’re just letting air escape
the sound is made with the air coming
through the lips so the sound is here
when you’re saying vast the constant
move the sound starts here because it
starts with a vocal
Gort so it quickly comes and moves up
fast vast when I say fast it feels like
it comes from here when I say vast it
feels like it comes from here let’s
practice some words starting with a
sound fast
fast friendly friendly financial
financial flower flower free free and a
few words starting with the move sound
vague vague vehicle vehicle victory move
victory and now some longer words where
the sounds come either in the middle or
at the end even you then ever ever
effort effort do you hear the difference
in those two words ever ever effort
effort active active sensitive sensitive
whoo-whoo this sound at the end when it
is a V is so subtle if the sound at the
end is an F it tends to be a little more
strong staff staff active ooh it’s so
short everything everything different
different solve solve