The perfect P and B sounds!! Perfect English Pronunciation

Something I learned recently is that for

Arabic speakers the letters B and P or

the sounds /b/ and /p/ are difficult to

distinguish and produce so today I'm

going to explain the difference and then

we're going to practice and you'll be

perfect and everything's going to be great!

So this all relates to voiced sounds

and unvoiced sounds

What are voiced sounds and unvoiced sounds?!

I'm glad you asked

"Voiced sounds" produce a vibration in the throat

for example in letters or

sounds like b or /b/ so when you put

your hand to your throats and say B or

/b/ you can feel the vibration

you can feel the vibration

That means it's "voiced"

whereas with a /p/ sound

there's no vibration this means it's "Unvoiced"

Try it with me!

No vibration, no nothing, it's just a puff of air from your mouth

So how do we distinguish this?

Let's practice!

For example:

These two words

"Bob" has two /b/ sounds

Two "voiced" sounds

"Pop" however has two "unvoiced" sounds

For this practice you're going to need a piece of paper

and hold it close to your mouth

When you produce "voiced" sounds, you won't

you won't see the paper move

But when you produce "Unvoiced" sounds you'll see the paper move

Because there's no vibration in the throat

There's just a puff of air pushing that paper

Pushing that paper

So let's begin

Nothing however with "pop"

So you see with every /p/ sound, the paper moves

Because of that puff of air from your mouth

So try it with me, put the paper to your mouth

and say these two words:

Doesn't matter how loud you get

The paper won't move

But with "pop"

Two /p/ sounds

You'll feel it move, try with me

paper to the mouth

Even if you say it quietly, it will still move

Okay let's try some other words

For example:

"Voiced" shouldn't move

Nothing, great! Just a vibration no puff of air

"Pull" however is that unvoiced sound

So you'll get the puff of air moving a paper

Say it with me!

Okay let's try another one

"Bunch" - voiced, shouldn't move

Did you do that? How about "Punch"

So when you say it with me, you should not feel the paper move

for the /b/sounding words

But the paper should move for the /p/ sounding words

So how else can we practice this?

Well we can look at tongue twisters!

Really try and enunciate

Pronounce those sounds properly, fully

You can be as loud as you want

for the "voiced" you shouldn't get any movement in the paper

for the "unvoiced", you should feel that that puff of air

and the paper should move

If you can think of any cool tongue twisters to use with the /B/ and the /P/

Write them in the comments

and if you have problems with any other sounds write it in the

Write it in the comments, I'll try and include it in a future video

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