A1 · 4 minutes · Pronunciation

Fan or van?

Listen for the f and v sounds in short sentences.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the difference between f and v.

Words to know

van: A vehicle bigger than a car, used for carrying things.
voice: The sound you make when you speak.
loud: Making a lot of noise.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 87% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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