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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
v and f
hello everybody,
I am an italian student living in and I have a question. Although dutchmen speak quite good english, they talk with a dutch (and probably german) "v" which is close to a soundless "f". It sounds all right in words as "of","have","give" but it sounds bad to me in words as "everybody","event". I read the explanation f=teeth on the lower lip and soundless while v has sound, but somehow it's still tough for me to discriminate between the two. My webster dictionary puts ViVid+giVe.
Could someone teach me the trick?
In particular has v the same sound in "of" and in "vivid"?
thanks
Ale
I am an italian student living in and I have a question. Although dutchmen speak quite good english, they talk with a dutch (and probably german) "v" which is close to a soundless "f". It sounds all right in words as "of","have","give" but it sounds bad to me in words as "everybody","event". I read the explanation f=teeth on the lower lip and soundless while v has sound, but somehow it's still tough for me to discriminate between the two. My webster dictionary puts ViVid+giVe.
Could someone teach me the trick?
In particular has v the same sound in "of" and in "vivid"?
thanks
Ale
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Being Italian, you shouldn't have any difficulty with f and v . They are the same in English as in Italian. However, note that the word of is pronounced as if it were spelled with a v , not an f .
- Being Italian, you shouldn't have any difficulty with f and v .
- They are the same in English as in Italian.
- However, note that the word of is pronounced as if it were spelled with a v , not an f .
- So the f of of should sound the same as the v in love, give, event, or vivid.
- It is likely that the people in Amsterdam whom you are listening to are not pronouncing f 's and v 's correctly.
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Being Italian, you shouldn't have any difficulty with f and v. They are the same in English as in Italian.
However, note that the word of is pronounced as if it were spelled with a v, not an f. So the f of of should sound the same as the v in love, give, event, or vivid.
It is likely that the people in A
However, note that the word of is pronounced as if it were spelled with a v, not an f. So the f of of should sound the same as the v in love, give, event, or vivid.
It is likely that the people in A
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