B and V in Spanish ⭐: Pronunciation Guide & Differences You Need to Know!

[@springspanish]

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[@jordillach3222]

1:54 It is not really "uvé", but _uve,_ with stress on the _u-_ syllable, it has no written accent. I'm a native Spanish speaker and this is the way I say the name of this letter here in Chile 🇨🇱.

[@thenmameow8123]

Thanks for all the information. As a beginner, I learned so much in these video. I love the way you pronounced both languages. Gracias ^_^💜

[@jimshackelford6302]

Excellent lesson. I'd always wondered about this.

[@glaoak1787]

Great video. Just a suggestion. Do it all in Spanish with cc in English. I think it would flow better.

[@esramiranda3649]

thank you Mariana and Spring Spanish Team. These videos are helping to learn a lot,Gracias 🌺

[@marikaserasini2315]

Well, I have to say that even if I'm a good spanish speaker, I think I don't even pronounce well letter "v", at the beginning of the word! However, if I read the noun on the video my brain read it with the italian alphabet but, if I just listen, I can percieve the difference! Thank you very much for this video!!! I'll listen more carefully! See you soon!

[@springspanish]

😉 Thank YOU for watching! We're glad it's been of use to you! Don't worry, though! It's all about immersing yourself in the language. If you listen to more and more material in Spanish, your ears will get used to there being no difference between B and V without you even noticing! 😉

[@SellusionStar]

At 0:46 you clearly say "en este video", instead of "bideo". I'm so confused. 😢

[@cerealously1018]

I think she just had a Spanglish moment.

[@sharleneh6161]

I've been using both Duo Lingo and Pimsler to learn Spanish and while both have their merits, I've struggled to understand how to pronounce "v" at the beginning of a word. It's hard to differentiate when I can't see how the speaker's mouth is forming the "b" sound. On Pimsler, it often sounds like the female speaker uses "b" while the male speaker uses "v" at the beginning of a word so I've been lost. I really appreciate this video-it was so helpful-and I'm happy to incorporate your channel and website into my daily lessons. Muchas gracias!

[@RamPMonyPers]

I'm using Duo Linguo and Busuu, and face exactly the same problem. You can't tell how a word is being pronounced unless you can see the speaker.

[@Joangelis]

Literally@@RamPMonyPers

[@CrankCase08]

I'm doing the Pimsleur Spanish too and the inconsistent pronunciations are really annoying, as if they're deliberately seeking to irritate the student.

[@jamesfreese4700]

Good video!!!!

[@miketoriant]

Thank you for the video, I'm getting so many conflicting opinions on this. Also, @6:04 you said "palavras" with a hard v (using your bottom lip and top teeth). I'm so confused

[@veejayroth]

For me, the easiest way of thinking about the soft "b/v" sound is as of a barely at all pronounced "lazy V".

[@kellynichols5916]

I agree with @miketoriant about "palavras". Also her demonstrations were hard to hear through a device speaker. They should have done a close up and very slow motion of her mouth with every demonstration

[@CrankCase08]

@@kellynichols5916 As with many of these spoken videos, the audio is in need of processing, using an equalizer to boost the 2kHz range for clarity, then a compressor to even out the levels, before finishing with a limiter to maximise the volume of the finished product. It can all be done with audio editing software, as I've already done with the Pimsleur course.

[@kellynichols5916]

@@CrankCase08 @CrankCase08 Huh????? I have no idea what you just posted??!!! It's okay. I don't need to understand video editing. I do appreciate your youtube videos. I just think you should do this one over again because at 6:04 she pronounces "palabras" with a very hard v, "palavras" . And in 7:18 she pronounces "trabajar" with a hard b. Thanks so much.

[@CrankCase08]

@@kellynichols5916 ~I was pointing to the audio (not video) quality that lacks clarity. However, yes, she leaves us just as confused as before. I found an article somewhere advising that it's usually okay to use a soft 'b' in all instances. I got so fed up trying to find a definitive answer, so I left it at that.

[@kellynichols5916]

With all due respect, this video was not clear when she demonstrated the actual sounds. It would be more helpful if the camera did a close up of her mouth. The explanations were very good.

[@tahiti1]

Thanks. very helpful👍

[@trdestruction6678]

So many choices for a cool rapper name. Lol. Thanks for the help!

[@Junjo11]

Thank you very much. I am teaching myself spanish. What country spanish is this ? Central america, ??

[@kabir2_Redoy]

Thanks mariana

[@veronicajuarez-ct8qy]

B de bueno y bonito 😊

[@springspanish]

¡Exacto! / Yes, indeed!

[@vmerriwether]

So? For pronouncing v it’s “ube”. However my mom says it’s pronounced “ve”. Is this just an updated version? Or just a different way to pronounce it?

[@jordillach3222]

In certain places, for a reason I don't fully understand, in some schools in the past they wrongly taught an artificial phonetic difference between the sounds represented by b and v. In reality, there is not such difference and the sound /v/ (labiodental) is not even part of the Spanish natural phonology.

[@Nails_bruh]

How do we pronounce that softer “b” sound?

[@jordillach3222]

0:29 _"... en español, the difference between those two letters es muy sutil..."_ As a native Spanish speaker I find this assertion inaccurate. In fact, there is no difference at all, not a subtle neither a marked difference, there is simply no difference. The sound /v/ is not part of Spanish phonology. Both _b_and _v_ represent the same sound: /b/ and its allophone /β/.

[@travisbroussard4234]

Go to the last minute of the video to get the information you clicked on the video to fnd👎

[@CrankCase08]

Yeah, too much jibber-jabber.

[@deloiero]

3:14, so which letter makes a sound that require you stick out your tongue? Maybe D? But why?

[@NicoleW_TeamJesus]

😅😅🤭🤭🤭😅😅🙆🥹

[@HertWasHere]

They just sound like B😂

[@Joangelis]

Literally I can't tell a difference

[@jasonlassiter9229]

Exactly!!! So, how can white 43 year old man who is trying to learn Spanish tell the difference between the sounds of the letters b and v, when they both sound exactly the same. I’m sorry, but English has very distinct differences in every letter sound, it’s not that way in Spanish. Sorry Mexicans, South Americans, Latinos/Latinas, and Spaniards, don’t get enjoado with me. But, your language has fewer words than English, plus, some of letters sound exactly the same. That’s why it’s easier for me to read and write in Spanish, than it is to understand when someone is speaking it.

[@donaldpulliam9153]

​​​​@@jasonlassiter9229many people who speak Spanish as there native tongue speak faster than your brain can comprehend, it is really just a normal pacing (not talking faster than you or I), However, I feel like one of the main issues with Spanish comprehension for most people who speak English is that the word structure(In the English language most of our words end in a consonant, whereas it is less common with Spanish words) and our Sentence structure(adjectives and adverbs follow the subject in Spanish and precede the subject in English) differ substantially from one language to the other ex: Gato negro is black cat or male black cat depending on how far you want to take the translation, gata negra is female black cat, so in what takes us three words they achieve in two, but the difference in the words is reasonably apparent, if translated without moving the words around then gata negra is cat black and once again both English words end in a consonant and both Spanish words end in a vowel, I think we have heard the sound of most words ending that way in English so much that that's what we listen for when we are in conversation, because that's what we are used to, who's to say either way though, I'm sure we probably speak to fast to non-native speakers too and at least Spanish does use the same alphabet basically and it's not like Chinese where you have up to 25,000 characters in the full alphabet, I couldn't imagine trying to learn something like that, I think I would have to be born there to speak it, memorization via environmental circumstance

[@juanad5041]

My friend showed me this video. The youtube channel looks good but this video is not right and it's too complicated. I'm originally from Nicaragua, and B and V are pronounced the same. kind of like a b but using the lower lip and teeth with the upper lip. They should take this video off the channel

[@wutim16]

too long and too much unnecessary content

[@jordillach3222]

Yeah, whatever.