Name: 英語の音 - B[b]とP[p]の子音 - BとPの子音の作り方 (English Sounds - B[b] and P[p] Consonants - How to make the B and P Consonants)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:19:17.000Z
Duration: 5 min 27 s
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In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to learn how to pronounce the

These two sounds are paired together because they take the same mouth position.

P is unvoiced, pp, meaning only air passes through the mouth.

And B is voiced, bb, meaning, you make a sound with the vocal cords, bb.

The lips stay together while the teeth part a little.

The tongue position doesn't matter for these consonants,

so the tongue can start to get into position for the next sound.

For example, if the next sound is the R consonant, the tongue can move back and up for the R

Let's see the sounds up close and in slow motion.

The lips press together, and then release.

There is a stop of the airflow, and a release.

The stop of the airflow happens as the lips close

The release is when the lips part and the air comes through, -pen, hap-pen, happen.

Sometimes native speakers don't release stop consonants when they come at the end

of a sentence, or when the next word  begins with a consonant.

For example, the common phrase 'What's up?'.

My lips closed in the P position, but I didn't release the air.

My lips came together for the P, but they didn't release the air.

I stopped the air with my lips, then released it with the next sound, the T consonant.

Let's look at some words up close and in slow motion.

The lips press together, and then release into the EH as in BED vowel.

The lips press together, and then release into the AH as in FATHER vowel.

This video is one of 36 in a new series, The Sounds of American English.

Videos in this set will be released here on YouTube twice a month,

first and third Thursdays, in 2016 and 2017.

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The real value of these videos is watching them as a set, as a whole,

to give your mind the time to take it all in and get the bigger picture.

Most of the materials you'll find elsewhere just teach the sounds on their own in isolation.

We learn the sounds to speak words and sentences, not just sounds.

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