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As I am studying here in Germany I have noticed,
many Germans, when they are speaking English
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while they have very good accents that many of
them pronounce the V sound as a W. Vv as a ww, ww.
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For example, the word university.
Vv. I hear it: uni-wer-sity.
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Which is strange because the German word,
Universität, has the vv sound in it.
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It's exactly the same in English: vv, university.
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Of course, it's just a
matter of changing the habit
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as the sound does exist in the
German language. Vv, vv.
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So, one just has to be careful when they're
speaking that their mouth doesn’t go into the ww
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position but rather the vv, vv.
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Other words: visit, very, volleyball.
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