23: The /p/ and /b/ in English

American English Pronunciation Podcast

Seattle Learning Academy

Language Learning, Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2008

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Pronounce /p/ and /b/ correctly and compare them with the consonants /f/ and /v/. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to this week's Seattle Learning Academy American English pronunciation podcast.
0:12.6	My name is Mandy, and this is podcast number 23. I hope you found last week's review podcast helpful.
0:20.7	Sometimes we all need to be reminded of things that we learned about a while ago.
0:26.0	Today we are going to learn about two more consonant stops, the B sound and P sound.
0:33.9	Way back in episode two, I taught about the T sound and D sound. I reviewed them a bit when I talked
0:41.3	about the ED endings in episode 19. The T sound and D sound are called stops because we use
0:49.6	some part of our vocal tract to stop all the air from leaving our vocal tract for a very short period of time.
0:57.0	Then we let it go with a little puff of air.
1:00.0	The B sound and P sound are also stops.
1:05.0	To create these sounds, we use our lips to stop the air, and then we push the lips apart again with a puff of air.
1:13.8	The B sound is voiced, and the P sound isn't, making them a voiced, unvoiced pair. Remember, some of our
1:24.4	sounds use our vocal cords, and some do not. Different languages of the world have
1:30.1	different sounds that are voiced or unvoiced. The B sound uses our voice, the P sound doesn't.
1:38.2	Listen to the difference. B sound, b. P sound, p.
1:45.0	P.
1:46.0	Another small difference between these sounds is that the P sound has more of a puff of air during its sound than the B sound does.
1:55.0	Listen to both sounds.
1:57.0	B, p.
2:00.0	This is true of all of our stop sounds.
2:02.6	There is more of a puff of air during the unvoiced stops than the voiced stops.
2:07.6	Most students learn that they have a problem saying stop sounds
2:12.6	when they are spelling something and a native speaker hears them incorrectly. If you are misheard when saying the letter P,
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