If you want more information on the photos in this video, which have parts of the mouth drawn in, see this video on the parts of the mouth.

How to make this sound:

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The F and V consonant sounds. These sounds are paired together because they take the same mouth position. The F is unvoiced, ff, which means you let only air pass through your mouth, and the V is voiced, vv, vv, meaning you make a noise with the vocal cords. To make this sound, you raise the bottom lip to touch the top teeth. Ff. It's not like this, it's the inside part of the lip. So you simply raise it up to where it touches the teeth, vv, which are slightly behind it. Ff, vv.

Here is a photo of the F and V consonant sounds on the right compared with the mouth at rest. Here parts of the mouth are drawn in. The soft palate is raised for these consonant sounds. The bottom lip simply raises to touch the top teeth. The tongue touches lightly behind the bottom teeth. Sample words. Fan/van, fault/vault, photo/vote. Sample sentence: They served a very fresh oven-baked flounder fillet. Now you will see this sentence close up and in slow motion, straight on and from an angle, to really study how these sounds are made.

They, tongue comes through the teeth for the TH sound []. Served, here is the R consonant sound [], and now watch the bottom move up for the V. A very, again, the V sound, bottom lip up. Fresh. The bottom lip once again makes the F sound, and the SH [] lip position. Oven, with the V sound. Baked, lips together for the B. Flounder, bottom lip up for the F. And fillet. Again, the bottom lip up for the F position. The 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong []. They, tongue through the teeth for the TH sound, and the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong. Served, R position and then the bottom lip for the V. A very, bottom lip up for the V. Fresh, bottom lip up to make the F sound, Fresh. Mouth takes the SH position. Oven, bottom lip up to make the V sound. Lips together for tje B in baked. Back of the tongue up to make the kk sound. Flounder, bottom lip up to make the F sound. 'Ow' as in 'now' diphthong []. And again the bottom lip up to make the F in fillet. Fillet with the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong.

International Phonetic Alphabet symbols: [], []

For more information, see Wikipedia's pages on these sounds, which include their occurrences in other languages: here for [] and here for [].

Miss the old sound video? See it here.