Learn to Pronounce the American English F Sound /f/ - Ultimate Pronunciation Challenge Master Class

Hey everybody, it's jennifer from tarle speech and we have a another Ultimate pronunciation challenge master class today. Our sound today is f So we're going to talk about that. How do we spell it? learn how to Make the sound and pronounce that do a little bit of practice and then I will tell you When the daily practice will be posted so every day I am posting Practice where you repeat after me that you can do every day as many times as you would like And it is at the beginning of words in the middle of words at the end of words and then in sentences the f sound the symbol for the f sound is How do we spell the sound we can spell it with one f that we see in fit two f's in off a ph in phone and a gh in cough Okay, let's talk about what our mouth is going to do and then i'm going to show you a close-up So your lips are pulled back. What I mean by that is your lips are not Tuckered at all. They are just Relaxed and pulled back think of more of a smile shape. Although we are not going to be smiling It's just that retraction Of the lips your lips are open. We do not want to close them If you close your lips That will sound like the p sound so keep the lips open and the teeth Are going to touch the lip sometimes I describe this as gently biting the inside Or the outside of the bottom lip Our tongue is neutral. It's not touching anything and the Airflow is going to continue out of your mouth And your voice is off. Okay, so let's take a close-up. Look. What does this look like? You can see my mouth is open my lips are pulled back I am gently biting the inside of my bottom lip Not actually biting but my teeth are gently touching there. Some people will bite the outside of their bottom lip That is fine, too. I tend to keep my teeth in The air is just continuously moving out and my voice box is not on it is not moving That makes the sound a lot softer You can now watch close-up videos of me saying Every consonant and vowel sound and those will be posted to my youtube page as well So check those out if you just want to see the close-up All right, let's practice So what we're going to do is I just want you to listen and then we will do some repeating practice All right, so we have foot farm phone fish photo waffle laughing elephant coffee sofa Off tough puff giraffe stuff Okay now repeat after me foot farm phone fish photo waffle Laughing elephant coffee sofa Off tough cuff giraffe stuff Okay one more time Go ahead and repeat after me foot waffle off farm laughing tough phone elephant cuff Fish coffee giraffe photo sofa stuff Okay, how did you do? You were struggling with that. Just remember you want to make sure that the air keeps moving out of your mouth You want to keep your lips open so the air can move out? If you close your lips that will sound like a p sound and you also want to make sure That you do have your teeth and your lip kind of working together to create A little more of a friction with the air and that will help you to stay that sound I do hear some people struggle with this sound and they say p or h And those two tips will help you to avoid those mistakes All right. Let's do some sentences again Just listen and then we will do some repeating four furious friends fight for the phone Frank fields is our favorite friend from florida Now repeat after me. We're going to start slowly and then we will take it up to normal speed four Furious friends Fight for the phone Four furious friends Fight for the phone Four furious friends fight for the phone On to the next sentence Frank fields Is our favorite friend from florida Frank Fields is our favorite friend from Florida. Okay, everybody, I hope that you did well with that. If you're struggling, there are a few things you can do. Think about over-pronouncing each word. You can also think about going a little bit slower by adding pauses after each phrase in the sentence. And it's also okay to just do one word at a time and then to add those all together. It's also okay to go back and just practice some words and then move on to the sentences. Okay, so this week I will be posting the beginning of word practice on Thursday, F in the middle of words on Friday, F at the end of words on Saturday, and on Sunday sentences. Thank you so much for being here, everyone, and I hope to see you all next week for the V sound. Take care, everybody.