P Sounding like B in Words like PEPPER
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Lots of students ask me if the P should be turned into a B for words like ‘pepper’, ‘spoon’, etc. My answer is NO - find out why!
Learn more: rachelsenglish...
Free course: Top 3 ways to Master the American Accent RachelsEnglish...
AMAZING tips to sound more natural speaking English
Playlist that goes over all the sounds of American English: • Master The Sounds of A...
Get my FREE Sounds of American English Cheat Sheet: rachelsenglish...
New to Rachel's English? Where to Start Playlist: • Where to Start
Get Rachel's Book: RachelsEnglish....
SUBSCRIBE!: bit.ly/RE_sub,
Fan! bit.ly/RE_FB
Follow! / rachels_english
Improve your American Accent / spoken English at Rachel's English with video-based lessons and exercises. Rachel uses real life English conversation as the basis for teaching how to speak English and how to sound American -- improve listening comprehension skills. Study English vocabulary and English phrases such as phrasal verbs, as well as common expressions in English. Learn American idioms and American slang.
Cải thiện nói tiếng Anh Mỹ / 改善美式英語的發音 / 미국 영어 발음 향상 / アメリカ英語の話し言葉のアクセントを向上させる / Улучшение произношения американского английского языка / Meningkatkan berbicara bahasa Inggris Amerika / Melhore sua pronúncia do inglês americano / Mejora tu pronunciación en Inglés Americano / बात अमेरिकी अंग्रेजी में सुधार تحسين لهجتك الأمريكية الإنجليزية / שפר את המבטא האמריקאי שלך / Améliorez votre prononciation en anglais américain / Migliora la tua pronuncia in inglese americano
...with Rachel's English!
Help us caption & translate this video!
amara.org/v/cX2T/
Wow, what a great lesson! I asked my teacher few months ago. He didn't even know he said those words like a B instead of a P. He had to say it again and listen to himself closely. But he didn't give me an answer. Now I understand it. Less air release sounds more like B because B has very little air to release.
Hi Rachel! Superb! Why? Like my grandfather used to tell me " every single day is a new opportunity to mend your mistakes and learn sth new" . Thanks a lot. I call it my day with this useful video.❤
If a person try to keep the mouth a bit close when P is pronounced in spoon for instance, the sound comes out easier. It is amazing how you are able to figure out foreigners' difficulties dealing with your language. You are so cool!
I watched to another videos to you, I tried to understand you, but I don't understand all your talk, because I speak Arabic. I hope to understand everything because your channel is useful for me, Thanks to you.
Have a lovely week with your family.
The best channel for American English prononunciation.
You are the great teacher, thaks a lot for your job.
Thank you my Teacher
You are great Rachael!
Thanks, Rachel.
Good evening our teacher.
thank you so much for lessons of America
have a nice day my teacher
Not to mention that "P" is unvoiced and "B" is voiced. Excellent explanation!
Rachel the best 😊👍
Thanks Rachel. You are an amazing teacher.
You're welcome!
Litterbabybum
You're professional! I like your channel
Thanks, you are really helping a lot. And I really like you and your videos😍😍
Thanks for your efforts.
thanks... I liked your class, your method, your eyes, your mouch, you're a beautiful and nice teacher.
Love you, Rachel!
Thank you for the lesson. In fact much of the nationalities except that of Germanic languages have problems with English P with expiration in the beginning and in the end of the words.
You are Awesome😍😍
Rachel, you are amazing. Keep teaching!👏
You're so cute teaching hahaha.... thank you very much Rachel.
I'm luma from iraq i follow you every day....this video is very good
Thank you very much !
Thanks a lot you are helping me so much. Great teacher
Thank you.👏👏👏👏👍👍
Great! Thanks one more time!
Thank you for the video
Thank you a lot
Thanks! This one is always challenging for my students.
Hi Rachel how are you great lesson have a nice day bye
please make a video about LR & RL sounds when they come right after each other, like railroad - civil rights - coral reef - already - before law - sherlock holmes... thumbs up guys
Thanks for the video suggestion!
thank you for your videos, i love them.. sorry one more thing, is there a chart of the symbols you use to explain pronunciation and media sounds that correspond to them?
I see that sounds are very difficult like you.
Thank you. It helps me.
Glad to hear that @NgooChengInn!
Rachel TKS! I like you a lot. You're a great teacher!!!
thank you
Dear Rachel! Thank you so much for your amazing videos. I studied English many years ago but stopped once I have graduated from my college. It's been 20 years since then and I found myself that my English Pronunciation is horrible. I am trying to improve my English and subscribed to your channel. I have so many lessons come on my mail as well as so many your videos to watch. And, plus to that I found your podcasts too. Question: Do you have any tips how someone who subscribed to your channel much later can study without being overwhelmed. Thank you very much for great work you and David doing for us! By the way, love your podcasts!
Gid blessing you Rachel
I'm an Egyptian and there is a problem with some Egyptians who thinks that their accent is perfect. The problem is they keep correcting you if you don't stress out every p in every word.
I love that photo when you were young and you're holding your dog Pepper.
Thanks Rachel i was looking for this :)
I loved yr pronouncetion
woow how cool is that, this video is tremendously useful, thanks a lot
Great video.
Thanks, this is a great video
Very nice
Please make a video about Could/Would
thanks
Is the letter P in the middle always light P? Thank you.
Hey, Rachel, can you, please, make a video about "be" words like before, believe, etc. and how to pronounce the second sound in them. Because, it should be "ih" but I hear shwa all the time.
My pronounciation is realy changed Cuz of you and i´m also a big fan your channel.
Good thank you❤👍
You're welcome!
I have already enrolled in Rachel's academy.
hi Rachel! Thanks for the tip.
BTW- your hair looks awesome!
Thank you!
Rachel's English is it natural or do you dye it?
thanks 💕👍
Salam. I couldn't agree more with you.
Hello, Rachel, how're you doing? I hope you're doing well. I'm an Algerian, I'm studying English and I love your channel, you're making American English easier to learn and use. I wish you could make a video about the word #Narrator. Thank you so much for your help.
while your request is not granted, go practicing here:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narrator
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/narrator
www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/narrator
Good morning Rachel! I like to watch your videos and listen your podcasts everyday, but I have a trouble with pronunciation and also my native language is Spanish but I can’t translate English to Spanish, I know the meaning of a lot of English but I can’t translate to Spanish because I always think in English.
Thanks, Rachel! As always, perfect. What if I uttered a 'p' thinking of a 'b' and vice-versa...?
Amazing
Thanks from Egypt:)
You're welcome!
hey rachel that was a great vedio how about making another vedio like d sound like g ,t sounds like ch and s sounds like shaz at the end of word when the next word begin with the letter y...
This is very helpful specially for Arabic speakers
Hi Rachel! I like watching your videos, frequently, I can't noted the difference between can and can't when someone speaks, could you explain us what's the difference of those ones?
great
Until today I wasn't aware of the existence of 'heavy 'p'
I used the light 'p' by default everywhere
and to be honest I don't feel I need to change that
Hi Rachel,can you make the video how to pronounce hard,heart, heard,and hurt,thank you ☺
I was have a problem with them so thanks so much Rachel's
You're welcome!
Rachel's English I am an Arab man I am watching every new lesson to learn about an American English with invite them to following you (thanks a lot)
my English is not very good but I learning with you
Cool !
Could you please make a video on how to distinguish the sound between "order " and "odour" ?
2 totally different diphthongs, you really can't distinguish those? oO
The pronunciation is the same in British English.
so if it's the same theory about the "t and d" ?
do you know Rachel i didn't saw a professional tracher like you before.
I'm Egyptian person and this language isn't my first language but i can understand you too much easy
Hey Rachel, I have a question: does the word cars sound like cards. Are they of the same pronunciation? Thank you.
Plz teach me how to pronounce extra. Tks
thank
obrigado
muito bom
Hello,I would like to know how to pronunce the word "Hypnotized" is difficult...why?
The word "paper" has both the aspirated and the unaspirated p!
I know some part of the world have this problem because they don't have the consonant 'p'. My lecturer, when he speaks, he replace the letter 'f' and 'p' with a 'b'.
Hi Rachel can you make a video about how to pronouce “I’m going to go to the...” or “I’m going go to a...”
How do you know when the p should be pronounced light, unaspirated, p?
Ilkka Pohjalainen I think in unstressed silable
I thought that as well but then I saw the word "report" at 0:16. In the word "report" the stress is on the last syllable, but still the /p/ sound is unaspirated.
The rule is very simple, if the /p/ is at the start of a stressed syllable (and there's not an /s/ before it) it's aspirated. See Pen, Past, Appear, Report, Impatient.
If the syllable is unstressed or there's an /s/ before the p then you pronounce it unaspirated. See Mapping, Champion, Separate, Spin, Spain, and Spoon.
LescouF, yes, that is what I thought. But if you watch the video at 0:16 or 3:07, Rachel specifically gives the example of "report" as with an unaspirated /p/ sound. Following your rule it should have aspirated /p/ sound.
You list the word "report" with other words with aspirated /p/sound but it should not have aspirated /p/ according to the video.
Amazing! Who is the crazy teacher saying spoon or pepper sound like sboon or bebber?
Rachel what do you think about the sound of p in brazilian pronunciation? Cause our "p" is voiced and sound way different of our b. I think that Americans have difficult of feeling the difference of these sounds since a voiced p doesn't exist.
our P is not voiced; it is completely unvoiced and also unaspirated: [p]. our B, on the other hand, is completely voiced: [b]. so a P is a P and a B is a B-simple as that, haha.
in English, though, for most accents, P is unvoiced, but aspirated, at the beginning of words and stressed syllables that don't begin with an S (also can also be at the end of words): [pʰ]. however, in unstressed syllables, at the end of words (most of the time), or in stressed syllables that begin with an S, it is that same unvoiced, unaspirated [p] of ours. B, on the other hand, can range from completely voiced, [b] (normally only between vowels inside words or after another voiced consonant), to only partially voiced or even unvoiced, in which case it sounds as... [p]! (normally at the beginning of words-especially the very beginning of utterances-, at the end of words, and after an unvoiced consonant.)
so, basically, [pʰ] is the representative P of English, [b] is a possibility for B-totally or only partially voiced-, while [p] is a stand-in for both P and B in certain positions. it is interesting to note that, if I'm not mistaken, there's no word in English written with an SB consonant cluster (or SD or SG, for that matter) within the same syllable (most of the words that do contain SB together are a fusion of two other words or, like, a word with a suffix or something), exactly because a hypothetical SB would probably be neutralized and sound as [sp], which has been already set to be spelled as SP.
doubt that? ask a native speaker if "this span" doesn't sound like "this ban", "this sky" as "this guy", and "this stew" as "this dew" (of course merging the two S's into a quick one in the first phrase of each pair). I have a Pennsylvanian friend who says that, when he was learning to write, he would write "spoon" as "sboon", for example, because that's how he perceived the word (and he would argue with his mom, because she did perceive it as the actual P it is, instead, hahaha).
so, yeah, with all that said, the same way we might pronounce, say, "beach" with a perfect, completely voiced [b] ([biːt͡ʃ]), but perceive it as "peach" ([piːt͡ʃ]) in a native's pronunciation if we use our "Portuguese ear" and ignore the fact that "peach" sounds very different because of the aspiration in the P ([pʰiːt͡ʃ]), an English speaker learning Portuguese might pronounce, say, our "pato" as [ˈpʰa.tu] (with an aspirated [pʰ], which is not the way we do it, but can be gotten away with and will be perfectly understood), but perceive it as "bato" in our native pronunciation ([ˈpa.tu]), which of course differs from our "bato" because this one has, in turn, full voicing in the B ([ˈba.tu]). in the same vein, if we pronounce "peach" without that aspiration, a native speaker might hear it as "beach", while, if they pronounce "bato" in Portuguese without fully voicing that B, we might hear it as "pato".
in fact, that is usually what happens with both my Portuguese and my English students. therefore, in short, Portuguese speakers should learn to aspirate their P's and interpret unvoiced P's as B's in certain positions, while English speakers should learn to fully voice all of their B's and interpret the same unvoiced P's as actual P's in all positions. fun, ain't it? =)
Thanks Rachel.
Here is a confusion that I can't figure it out and thank your explanation in advanced.
In phrase like "keep it", here we should use linking: "kee pit", I was wondering the P here is a LIGHT P sound or a TRUE P sound (full released).
And same as the K sound in phrase "take it", we should also link two words together like "ta keit" , so the K here is a LIGHT K or a TRUE K (full released)?
Thanks a lot.
This is a great video,It's very helpful!how about the t or k after s, such as stay sky ,They sound like\ ˈsdā \ ˈsgī \,Thanks for your help.
Yes! Those stop consonants will also soften a bit in the same way! Great question.
Thanks! Rachel every video you upload is one more step for my stair of my knowledge
In linguistics, we call those unaspirated sounds.
Yes! If a /b/ sound is pronounced with too much force, it is often perceived as a /p/ because the latter is more forceful in English. It's especially important to teach in Russia as the Russian /б/ (B) sound is always stronger than the /п/ (P) sound, so it's exactly vice versa if you take out the aspiration, which is non-existent in any of them.
Artyom Fokin
Hi, Artyom, thanks for your information about the language - Russian. It’s really important to distinguish these two sounds in Russia just the same as in Chinese. In Chinese, we have /b/ and /p/, which are transcribed in Hanyu Pinyin. However, in IPA, these two sounds are both voiceless /p/ and /pʰ/(because the vocal cord doesn’t vibrate when producing these sounds), so we perceive these two sounds as voiceless unaspirated and apirated sound respectively. Just like you mentioned the language phenomenon in Russia.
?Can you tell me about sound they are words
terrorism vs tourism
Can I think of P as a light B?
Hi! In situations like the ones in the video yes - but not when the P is the first letter of a word!
I think it's something like the Spanish "p".
Exactly
Chinese also has the same unvoiced unaspirated p. But I'm not sure that in English it's half-unaspirated or totally-unaspirated, because for my ears, the latter one is kinda harder/solider than what they sound like in real life. So I guess it should be with some but not that much puff instead of totally unaspirated.
I guess you mean that sound at 1:45.
. I am from Sudan and I do not know a word. pleaseI want the first link of your videos
For Portuguese speakers, it's just regular p. The aspirated p in English is the one that sounds strange for us.
Thanks Rachel, but If I make a light p it will be like B in pronunciation
It is not B. It is unaspirated P. Unaspirated K,P,T can occur in the word sky, spy, sty, sk-, sp-, st-, etc.
Spain - Sbain, Space - Sbace, Speak - Sbeak.
Is the ‘p’ pronounce like unaspirated p in spoon?
It's a very light P sound.
This is called "unaspirated p"
Yes, it is. Many Asian can understand easily.
Hi Rachel,
What about the verb "to handle"? It seems to sound 'hangle' when I hear native speakers.
xoxo from []
I've heard k like g, but never p like b.
Who hears in that way? Someone in the Comments? Americans?
I make English learning videos as well. You might want to watch them
They are very difficult pronounce SOUNDS.