Pronunciation – V & W

http://www.engvid.com/ /”Do you know how to say the ‘w’ sound in English correctly? A lot of students mix up the ‘v’ and ‘w’ sounds in English. It’s a problem, because it will sound like you are saying completely different words, and people won’t understand you! For instance, ‘west’ is a direction, but a ‘vest’ is something you wear. Learn how to say V and W correctly in this pronunciation lesson. http://www.engvid.com/pronunciation-v-w/

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Hello. Welcome to www.engvid.com — not /”EngWid/”. Today, I’m going to teach you the difference in pronunciation between a /”V/” and a /”W/”. That’s /”U/” times two. In some parts of America — I don’t know which parts, which states — I know people say /”double yah/”. We don’t actually say /”double yah/” in Canada; it’s /”double U/” versus the /”V/”. Now, this goes out to all of my friends who speak Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, German, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Russian, Ukrainian: As far as I understand, all of these languages have problems with the /”V/” and the /”W/”. /”Double yah/”! The /”double U/”. Let me help you out.

The easiest way to get this down straight is when you say the /”V/” sounds, you’ve got to stick out your two front teeth and go /”vuh/

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