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