How to pronounce P and F in English

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Hello, my name is Ronnie, and I'm going to teach you about a very important basic verb
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in English.
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This is really, really good if it's the first verb you ever learn in English, or if you
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have learned English before and are reviewing your English lessons.
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I know also you may think, "I don't need this, this is easy."
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I am very surprised the number of people who are really, really advanced English speakers
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who make mistakes using "to be."
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So, I will help you to learn it or to review it.
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What I'm going to do is I'm going to teach you the positive, the negative, and also the
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question form, just to help you out.
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The first thing we have to do is go through the positive.
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We say, "I am," or you can also say or write, "I'm."
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It's the same thing.
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With "he," and this is a man or a boy, "she," who's a girl or a woman, and "it," we have
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to use "is."
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Now, "it" is a singular noun, so that means one of something that is not a person.
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For example, my marker, I can say "it," "it is red."
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When we say "he is" or "she is" or "it is," we can shorten it and we can say "he's," "she's,"
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or "it's."
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These are the shortened versions.
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When we use "you," "we," and "they," we have to use "are."
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"You" is "you," "we" includes myself and another person.
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"We" is plural.
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There's always at least two people, including you.
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"They" is also plural for people.
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It means more than one person who is not yourself, so I can say, "They like pizza."
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The other meaning we use for "they," I told you that "it" is for a singular noun or singular
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thing.
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We also use "they" for plural nouns.
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So if the noun is plural, it's going to have an "s" on the end.
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For example, I told you that "it is red" for one marker.
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Magic, I have two markers.
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I have to say "they are" black and red.
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So "one" is "it," "two" or "more" are "they."
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We can also break these down and make them shorter when we speak or when we write.
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Both speaking and writing is acceptable.
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We say "your," "we're," and "their."
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We're going to go on to the negative form of these.
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So this is positive, and as you can tell here, this is negative.
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So positive is "I am" or "I'm."
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What we're going to do with the negative is we're only going to add one word, and it is
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the same for all of the subjects.
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To make it negative, we'll put "not."
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So for this one, we're going to write "I'm not," or you could say "I am not."
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It doesn't matter.
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Normally when we speak English, we would say "I am not."
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For "he," "she," and "it," all we're doing is adding "not" with "is."
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So I'm going to write "he is not," or you can say "she isn't."
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These two are exactly the same, and then you say "it isn't" or "it is not."
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And the last three are "you are not," or we can say "we are not" or "we aren't."
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I can say "they are not" or "they aren't."
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If it is difficult for you to say "aren't" or "isn't," don't worry.
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Just if you want to try and start, you can practice saying "he is not," "she is not,"
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"I am not," "you are not."
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Then when you feel comfortable, you can change it and shorten it.
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It'll be easy once you practice a couple times.
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The last thing that you're going to want to learn are the question forms of "to be" verbs.
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The first one we don't really use a lot in speaking, but we do use it when we talk to
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ourselves.
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Yes, you do, or as I like to say, your inner voice.
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A lot of people ask me, "Ronnie, when will I ever become bilingual in English?"
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One of the first ways that you are on the path to becoming bilingual is when you begin
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to think in English.
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So your inner voice or your thinking, the language actually changes of how you think.
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This is a very good indication that you are slowly becoming bilingual.
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It takes time, so please do not think, "Oh my God, Adora!"
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Don't worry, it'll take a while.
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So once you have done that, you're going to start thinking to yourself, "Am I speaking
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English well?"
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Yes, you are.
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When we use the question form, all we do very easily is we switch the verb and the subject.
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Try and do this one.
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If we switch the verb and the subject, "He is" changes to, "Is he?"
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We also say, "Is she?" or "Is it?"
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It's very unusual if we would start a question with, "Isn't it?"
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We do say that sometimes, but it's not usual.
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What I want you to concentrate on is just the regular questions in the affirmative or
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in the positive.
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You are, do you know the answer to that one or the question to that one?
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This one would be, "Are you?"
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We are would be, "Are we?" and plural noun, "They are" would be, "Are they?"
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One very important thing as well is when you're asking a question, when you're writing the
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question, you always need one of these beautiful things at the end called a question mark.
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If you don't put a question mark, it's wrong.
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So always remember your beautiful question mark at the end of every question.
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When you are speaking, the way that the listener knows you're asking a question is your voice
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goes up.
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For example, I would say, "Is she okay?"
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My voice has to rise at the end so that the listener knows that I'm asking a question.
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If you have a question to ask me, go to www.engvid.com and you can ask me.
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I hope you understand all of this.
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I am leaving.
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Bye.
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