Mixing Up V & W sounds: American English Pronunciation

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Uploaded by on Nov 17, 2008

ESL: I made this video while in Germany, when I noticed they said the W sound when they should have been saying V.

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  • In Asia including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Persia, there is no distinction between W and V and I believe European countries such as Poland and Hungry also don't distinguish between the two words.

  • @baiboo I am sure that makes learning English even harder!

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  • funny how the w wasn't changed to look like actual double u not double v.

  • @baiboo I far as I know there's only w as v in polish.

  • thanks!

  • I think ,German have" very good accent " because most of the spoken words of English are Germanic like you said university ..  thanks for uploading these videos ..

  • Very well explained. Thank you.

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