As promised, here I leave you the presentation we saw in class to practise the pronunciation of these sounds.
Unfortunately, Spanish native speakers use both the sounds /b/ and /v/ for letters “b”and “v”. This makes that Spanish-speaking students of English have many problems making difference between these sounds. If you want to improve the pronunciation of these sounds you can check these video lessons taken from the BBC website.
If you want to practise the pronunciation of /b/, see this video.
If you want to practise the pronunciation of /v/, see this other video.
Finally, you can see this presentation again to practise these sounds in context.
If you want to practise pronunciation of ‘v’ reading words starting with it, remember that in the Guy Fawkes entry in this same blog there is a lot.
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Very helpful! thanks
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Thanks Eva,
The videos are very useful.
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Remeber that you have more examples in the BBC website. And of course, you always have ‘Saint Google’, as Carlos calls it.
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Ha ha ha! After all, Google is always there to show us how to solve lots of our problems without asking anything for it, we don’t need to pray. Ha ha ha!
By the way, do you know what the meaning of the word Google is? Look at this:
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/05/meaning-of-google-googol-1-followed-by-100-zeros/
And if you want to see something funny, search “Google” in this English-Spanish dictionary.
http://www.wordreference.com/
Don’t you believe? Try this other dictionary:
http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/oald7/?cc=global
Sorry, but I have to leave it here because I have to do some googling now, ha ha ha!
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Carlos, you should have your own blog, you could share your humour with the whole world. I’m sure many people would appreciate it.
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About your last words Eva, I just can say that my English is not good enough to give thanks to you.
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