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  • Hello, I'm John Russell.

  • Today we are exploring too difficult.

  • Sounds fun and vote.

  • Mixing up these sounds can change the meaning of a word.

  • Here's an example.

  • Very, very fat that FA and VA are called Fricka Tibbs.

  • This means that as you push air from your mouth, you use your lips and teeth to change the flow of air.

  • In both of these sounds, you put your top teeth onto your lower lip.

  • The difference between the sounds is this far is voiceless, and vah is voiced.

  • In other words, you shouldn't feel your throat move when you make the fluff sound, but you should feel it.

  • Move when you make the vote sound, make sure you are biting down with the correct pressure.

  • Brad Neary Um Ah pronunciation expert, says You can also practice thes sounds by focusing on the vowel sound that comes before fun.

  • And when you have a vowel sound before it's usually a shorter sound.

  • And when you have a vowel sound before it's usually longer, for example, the word leaf and leave.

  • You can hear how the vowel sound in leaf is very short, but leave its longer so even if the two and sounds are hard to pronounce.

  • You can focus on pronouncing the vowel sound correctly to help people understand.

  • Listen for the fun and va sounds in the following sentence.

  • Your pronunciation will move forward very far.

  • If you focus on these very hard sounds, keep up the good work by.

Hello, I'm John Russell.

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