中澳网美式英语发音F和V

2021年1月11日发(作者：韩美林)
Session Four
1. Consonant ‘F’
2. Consonant ‘V’
3. The Unvoiced ‘SH’ Sound
4. The Voiced ‘ZSH’ Sound

Hi, welcome back. Again my name is Paul Gruber and this is the
Pronunciation Workshops---Fourth Training Session. I hope things have
been going well. Today, we’ll cover F and V sounds as well as SH and
voiced SH sounds. Just a reminder all of the material covered in those
videos are also printed in your training manual for pratising later on. Let’s
get started.
In the last session, we talked about Air Friction with TH
sounds [θ] that the sound is made with air friction. Well, today we’re going
to talk about Air Friction again, but this time it is with F and V sounds.
The F and V are paired consonants and they are both produced
exactly the same way except the F sound is unvoiced and the V sound is
voiced. They are both produced by contacting your upper teeth to your
lower lip. It’s sort of feels like your biting down on your lower lip /v/, like
that. Now remember all the voicing means that your vocal chords here on
your throat are vibrating and making a sound. So the F sound is unvoiced
and sounds like this /f/ and the V sound is voiced, and sounds like this /v/.
Correctly pronouncing these sounds will make your speech much clearer
and you more intelligible, like the TH sounds from the last session. Fs and
Vs are friction sounds and not that loud. So we stretch these sounds out a
little bit, so they can be clearly heard. Let’s start by looking at the F sound
in the word Foot. Now many foreign speakers may use the right positioning
by biting down on their lower lip, but they still keep the F very short and
they don’t create air friction. Therefore, you do not hear the F clearly and

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it sounds like~. That’s no good. Let me show you what you need to do. First
think of the word is having two beats: one- two. Hold the F sound for the
first full beat. F---oot, like that. Do it again. F---oot. Do you see how long
I’m holding that F? Now I know that’s a little bit exaggerated, but you get
the idea. You need to hear the air friction when practising. Try to give the F
one beat F ---oot. Let’s work with words beginning with the letter F. Here
we go.
Find
Finally
Family
Freedom, with the strong R, freedom
Laugh, notice the gh combination in that word, laugh.
Telephone, notice the ph combination in that word, it’s also
pronounced as an F
telephone, It’s the same thing in this next word
Symphony, this is a tricky one because you’ve got the M sound
followed by an F sound, symphony.
And the last word
Rough, notice the gh combinatin in that word, rough.
Let’s work on this paragraph.
Do you feel like a physical wreck?
Are you fed up with your feeling of fatigue?
Have you had enough of feeling rough?
Why don’t you fight fever with?
Pharaoh’s Friend.
A medicine that is tough on Flu.

Very good. Ok now let’s talk about the V sound. First of all, like the F
sound. Don’t make the V sound too short. Let’s look at the word Vote,

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you’ve got to stretch out the V. Like this.V---ote, V---ote. Are you hearing
that long V sound. That’s what you should be doing. Now, depending on
your native language, you may be replacing your V sounds for W sounds.
Be careful not to do this. The word is not Wote, it’s Vote. Every V that you’ll
see in English is made with this lip-biting position./v//v//v/. When you say a
V, it’s never WaWaWa. It’s never a W sound. It’s always V---, V---ote, like
that. Let’s practise some words with the V sounds, here we go.

Vine
Oven
Evaluate
Voice
Travel
River, notice the strong R, River
Every
And now the ends of words

Glove
Alive
And Leave. This last word Leave is very different from the word Leaf ,
like from the tree, which has an unvoiced F
The word is leave, with voiced V.
Keep the voicing going throughout the whole word and voice the V.
Leave, like that. If you stop the voicing at the end of the vowel /i/, then
you’ll be saying Leaf with an unvoiced F and the word we’ re trying to say
is Leave with the voiced V. Ok, now let’s look at the paired words with F
and V. You’ll see here just by adding voicing, you can completely change
the meaning of the word. Here we go.


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Feel – Veal
Safe – Save
Fat – Vat
Fine – Vine
Face – Vase
Fan – Van
Foul – Vowel
Proof – Prove
Very good. Ok now we’re going to work on listening exercises and
ear-training. I’ m going to displace some words with V sounds, however,
some words I’ll be saying correctly and then some others are purposely
saying incorrectly. I want you to listen carefully to my pronunciation and to
the voicing of the V sounds and see whether or not you can tell if I’m
saying the words correctly or incorrectly. Here we go. Here’s the first word.
Stove-- I cooked dinner on a hot stove. Was that correct? No. I should
have said Stove/V/. I cooked dinner on a hot stove with a voiced V.
Next word, Five. There, four, five. Correct? Yes, I said Five with
voiced V.
Leave—I’m in a hurry, and I need to leave. Is that correct? No, it’s not
Leaf with an unvoiced F. I should have said Leave with the voiced V sound.
Visa—She just received her international Visa. Correct? No, I said
Fisa with an unvoiced F. I should have said Visa with voiced V.
Living—I am living in a house. Is that correct? Yes, the V is voiced.
Living. That’s correct.
Ok, now repeat these phrases.

A famous athlete
A food vendor
The Foreign Service

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