🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓You can start with the article about the /v/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_v_as_in_very
In South America there are not difference between B and V sounds. But I think in Spain there is a little difference: B should be pronounced with lips only, and V exactly the same like in this video but without voice, just lips and teeth. Thank you, I improved my English phonetics with this video.
You are awesome! I absolutely love and appreciate your help with pronunciation! I’m an English teacher, and I refer my students to your videos all the time! Thank you so much for your help! Please create new videos! For example, on -ed endings, merging, etc.
Wonderful! Please say hi to your students! BTW, we also have a website with tons of information about pronunciation and phonic rules, check it out: soundsamerican.net/
Great video! Guys, although it's not used in everyday speaking, in Spanish we do have this sound. There is a rule that we never use when we speak but we always use when we write: an "n" consonant is always followed by a "v" consonant (for example the word "invitar"), and a "m" consonant is always followed by a "b" consonant (for example the word "combinar"). This used to be to don't mix the consonant sounds when speaking. Nowadays, we usually don't pronounce them in this way, but when you know this rule you understand that some time in the past the /v/ sound was pronounced in Spanish exactly as in English. In fact, I think they still pronounce them like this in some regions in Spain. And here in my country, some teachers teach this to their students, for us to know more about our language. Hope you enjoyed my high school knowledge hahaha. Greetings! 👏 👋 :)
+Marquito L Thank you, glad you liked this video. And thank you for the awesome comment! We know that you have the 'v' and even the 'w' letters in Spanish. But in this video we're talking about the sounds, not letters. What we meant is that in Spanish there's no the same *sound* /v/. In our experience, Spanish-speaking students very often substitute the American /v/ sound with the /b/, so that's what this is all about :). BTW, you mentioned that they may pronounce the /v/ sound in some regions in Spain, do you happen to know which ones? Just curious.
Sounds American I don't know exactly, I just heard it in some Spanish series. In Catalonia, where they speak Catalan and Spanish, they can make this difference more often because some words in Catalan conserve the /v/ sound. Also there's people who say the /v/ sound is a vestige from antique languages like Latin that had been disappearing with the language's evolution, and when Spanish started spreading around the world was already lost. There is some discussion about wether we should pronounce this sound or not. But the thing is, if you watch a movie filmed in Spain, you'll probably hear some actors and actresses pronounce the /v/ 😅😅
I found this on a webpage! "Sin embargo, los españoles de origen valenciano o mallorquín y los de algunas comarcas del sur de Cataluña pronuncian la vlabiodental hablando en español, no por énfasis ni por cultismo, sino por espontánea influencia de su propia lengua." It means: However, some Spanish people from Valencia, Mallorca, and some regions in Catalonia's south, pronounce the /v/ speaking Spanish, not because of emphasis or cultism, if not for their own language spontaneous influence ✌ 👌
Awesome guidance in every single aspect, Congratulations!!!!, specially for us native Spanish speakers, English is grammatically easier than Spanish but it's phonetically way more complicated
I have mispronounced words end with v sound so many times, Instead I change by the f sound. I will try to improve my pronunciation. I appreciate your great lesson, thanks.
In Argentina we're usually taught as childs that 'v' and 'b' have different sounds, 'labiodental' and 'bilabial', i remember wondering why I wasn't able to distinguish them... Much later I look it up and found it's a sort of myth. We actually use only one sound... So i have all the problems you mentioned in the video with this, I just recently became aware that i was saying "berry" instead of "very"! 😅 Anyway... I will continue rewatchin this video and practicing with it! Thank you
This channel is great and this one is among the best ones. This very precise and critical words have resolved my "defeats" for decades. American are as good as lovely like any other devoted language teachers. One day I will make Chinese pronunciation videos. ( I hope), Thanks so much.
Dear Friends of SACh (Sounds American Channel), you are very WRONG. ..... Why? My mother tongue is Spanish, I am from Venezuela and I am a Geologist. Well, in Spanish, we have the letter V and it sounds extremely similar to the sound V in English. ..... But, currently, nobody uses the letter V in Spanish. Because it is more simple to say BACA, instead of VACA. We write VACA (cow), but we say BACA. According to Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, we should write VACA and we should say VACA too. But nobody take care of that rule. Was I quite clear?!..... But, no problem thanks for your AWESOME videos. (I downloaded it on my laptop, they are very useful, :-) )
Thank you very much for your videos. They do help me learn sounds and make understanding english speech easier. Do you have any plans to write or make videos on intonation and stress?
Always happy to help! And yes, we're working on a new series "American English Rhythm and Intonation." It'll take some time, though, because the idea is to integrate this content into our website. Stay tuned!
@Sounds American I really appriciate your spanish speakers list of sounds, but I consider you should add to that list: Letter "X", stop gottal T, Flap T, the Dark L and other A
Thank you for your suggestion. The playlist for Spanish speakers is arranged so that people could focus on the most critical and problematic sounds first, then practice other sounds that may be difficult for them. This way Spanish speakers can improve their American pronunciation faster. After that, if needed, they can practice other American English sounds, like the Glottal or Flap 'T' or the Dark 'L.' These sounds are not included in the playlist, because they are not critical for your American pronunciation, you can focus on them after you've mastered all other, more important, sounds. BTW, there's no such sound as 'X,' it's a letter. 'X' can represent /k+s/ or /g+z/ sounds.
I'm aching for watching your videos about two English affricates /dʒ/ and /tʃ/. As in "pleasure" and "cheese". Though I know to pronounce them I'd like to hear a d+ʒ and t+ʃ blends in lower speech because in fast speech that is tricky to hear.
+Ps Silva Yes, we plan to make those videos too. Thank you for your suggestion! Just in case, the word "pleasure" is pronounced with the /ʒ/ sound, like in "seizure", not the /dʒ/, like in "bridge."
Extremely clear; the note on Spanish speakers is also remarkable as we do not often make any difference between the / v / sound and the / b / sound. Only one question, what about the pronunciation of "Stephen"? Sure here the "ph" sounds as / v /; wonder if there are other words where the "ph" spelling doesn't sound / f / as it usually does ( phone, Phil, nephew, photo, paragraph, ... ...)
For Russian speakers (and also maybe for other Slavic language speakers) it is extremely difficult to distinguish between /v/ and /w/. Russian has practically the same /v/ as English, but no /w/ at all. PS, Arabic does not have /v/, only /w/...
We do have a V sound in Spanish that is a bit close to the English V. Whenever a V or B comes after a consonant, it sounds like B. Whenever a V or B comes after a vowel, it sounds like V. Un burro /un Burro/ (Male donkey) Una burra /una vurra/ (Female donkey)
Actually,you guys should be aware that this is basic knowledge. There is long way to go if you wanna sound exactly like the American.And of course this is a great channel.
+li na ou You're welcome! This is our own app. We haven't released it publicly yet, but we plan to do it soon. We'll announce the release on this channel, so stay tuned!
This is so hard. I used to be able to pronounce this when I was a kid. For some reason, I can only pronounce it as "w" and "b" now. Although my language has this sound.
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
Hey there, at the end of virtually all of your vids you have a little tongue-twister (which has become somewhat of a signature of your channel), I've been wondering whether it'd be possible to ask you to share all of those tongue-twisters as a single text file so I could print them out and practice every day at home?
Hello there! Glad that you liked our crazy phrases :). Sounds like an excellent idea. We've added the phrases to our list of phonemes and links to relevant videos. Here you go: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvqAbjwRxzBAcHOrPe4dlJdO6Q5wLIWZ7QH4mEy_YDY/edit?usp=sharing For sounds that have voiced - voiceless pairs (like /p/ - /b/ or /f/ - /v/ ) we used single phrases but we'll change that soon, so this list will be updated in the next few weeks. Hope this helps!
Hey there, it has recently come to my attention that about 80% of the words in English have the stress that falls on the very first syllable. Is that the case? Is the stress in English usually (well almost always) falls on the very first syllable?
+First Last English language is rich and contains a great number of words. :) We have to make some serious calculations and need some time. We'll get back to you on that :).
We're working on an app, but it's not publicly available yet. We'll announce the release on this channel, so please stay tuned! In the meantime, there are lots of practice exercises on our website: soundsamerican.net.
Somebody has asked whether the stress in English almost always falls on the first syllable. That's a good question I've been wanting to ask the same question. Is that so? Like it's 90% the first syllable that's stressed isn't it?
+Cosmic Disco English language is rich and contains a great number of words. :) We have to make some serious calculations and need some time. We'll get back to you on that :).
+Hagam Almaweri The vowel sound in the word "give" is a relaxed /ɪ/ sound. It's pronounced longer in this word, than in a word "gift," for example. The /v/ is a voiced sound, but the /f/ in "gift" is a voiceless one. Hope it helps!
Hello there! Yes, we do, but they are not inexpensive. If you want, you can send us a request at team at soundsamerican dot net or contact our speech-language pathologist directly (darren@packardcommunications.com). Here's our post with his info: ru-vid.comUgz0Tjb_4jWofX9-hOh4AaABCQ
why do i listen voiced consonants at the end of syllable which read like symmetrical voiceless consonants? (example: /v/ at the end /seiv/ is read like /f/ at the end /safe/, dont mention the vowel length rule)
We've never said that the final /v/ is pronounced as /f/ at the end of words, we actually say that you should never pronounce it like this. We're actually saying that this is one of the most typical mistakes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U5Oro6v0klg.html Please watch our video.
Message all Russian speakers. V sound in Russian is different than V sound in English. It may be hard to identify the difference the first time but there is a difference. Upper teeth are going further on the lower lip to make American V sound.
+BACK TO BACK ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JamM8TgB_AA.html Thank you for your suggestion. We'll make the dark /l/ video will be made in several weeks, only after we complete all fundamental sounds.
