Hi, everyone, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy, and this is our 110th episode.

Listen to the end of today's show to hear about another novel I Love, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I'm going to encourage you to read and listen to it as a great study aide for the Tofell or GRE vocabulary prep or just for your own entertainment.

At the end of this show, I'll tell you how you can and why you should get a free

audiobook copy of the Great Gatsby from audible.com.

Like many of my podcast topics, I chose this week's topic based on a few good forum questions.

The forums are free for anyone to use and post questions to. Just go to www.org

pronunciant.com slash forums. Forum user, my word, from India, was having some trouble linking from the F sound and

V sound. Issues with the F sound and V sound are very common, not only for people from India,

but also native Spanish, Korean, Japanese, German, Czech, and Russian speakers, and those are just the languages

I regularly come across.

It's a little odd to have such unrelated languages struggling with the same problem, but F and

V problems seem to span the globe.

I find a lot of students who think they're correctly creating the F sound and V sound, but actually

aren't.

As a somewhat separate issue, I also hear a lot of non-native speakers accidentally

creating these sounds when they don't mean to.

Let's begin by exploring these sounds in more detail.

The V sound and F sound are a voiced, unvoiced pair.

The V sound uses the vocal chords and the F sound does not.

For ESL, ELL students, the V sound seems to cause greater trouble than the F sound.

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