I'm going to focus on two consonant sounds in English.
The /f/ sound and the /h/ sound.
These are very important sounds in English, so I want you to be able to pronounce them
Let's start with two example words.
The first example word is the word ‘fat’.
‘fat’ Now, the second word is ‘hat’.
This time it's an /h/ sound, ‘hat’.
Well if you keep watching, we are going to practice together.
And I promise you by the end of this video, you will pronounce them correctly.
Before we learn about these two consonant sounds the f /f/ sound and the /h/ sound in
English, you need to know about the I.P.A. spelling.
You can also watch me, and how I move my mouth, and of course always try to repeat after me.
I know you can make these sounds, guys, so let's do it together.
Now, let's first learn how to make the /f/ sound in English.
You are not going to use your voice.
You're not going to feel any vibration in your throat.
And what you're going to do is put your teeth against your bottom lip,
and you're going to push out some air through your teeth and bottom lip, okay.
/f/ /f/
/f/ Let's practice with the word ‘fat’.
Let's now practice producing the sound /h/ in English.
So as you can see your mouth is wide open.
It's voiceless as well, so no… no sound.
Mouth wide open and you're going to push out the air with your throat.
It has to come from down there, so… /h/
Please watch my mouth, try to repeat after me.
/h/ /h/
/h/ Let's practice with the word ‘hat’.
Let's now practice with minimal pairs; two words they sound very very much alike but
the sounds are actually different and they are very good for you to hear the difference
But first, let's practice the sounds themselves.
Please watch my mouth and repeat after me.
/f/ /f/
/h/ /h/
/h/ Let's do the two sounds together.
/f/ /h/
/f/ /h/
/f/ /h/
Let's go through minimal pairs together.
Please watch how I move my mouth and repeat after me.
Let's now practice with sentences containing these consonant sounds.
The first sentence is: ‘Please feel her fur heel.’
The second sentence: ‘The whole foal has fair hair.’
‘The whole foal has fair hair.’
And finally: ‘He'd feed the hog in the fog.’
‘He'd feed the hog in the fog.’
Let's now move on to listening practice.
I'm now going to show you two words.
I will say one of the two words, and I want you to listen very carefully and
to tell me if this word is, ‘a)’ or ‘b)’
Let's start with our first words.
You see you have word ‘a’ word ‘b’.
‘b’, hair.
‘a’ would be pronounced ‘fair’.
‘a’?
‘b’?
‘a’ would be pronounced ‘fear’.
I know you now understand the difference between this /f/ sound and this /h/ sound in English.
Of course it takes a lot more practice to be able to master these sounds but you can
So keep practicing, you will also train your ear to hear the differences between these
And obviously watch my other pronunciation videos.
I promise you they will help you improve your skills.
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