Pronunciation - V & W

“Do you know how to say the ’w’ sound in English correctly? A lot of students mix up the ’v’ and ’w’ sounds in English. It’s a problem, because it will sound like you are saying completely different words, and people won’t understand you! For instance, ’west’ is a direction, but a ’vest’ is something you wear. Learn how to say V and W correctly in this pronunciation lesson. TRANSCRIPT Hello. Welcome to -- not “EngWid“. Today, I’m going to teach you the difference in pronunciation between a “V“ and a “W“. That’s “U“ times two. In some parts of America -- I don’t know which parts, which states -- I know people say “double yah“. We don’t actually say “double yah“ in Canada; it’s “double U“ versus the “V“. Now, this goes out to all of my friends who speak Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, German, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Russian, Ukrainian: As far as I understand, all of these languages have problems with the “V“ and the “W“. “Double