To: http://www.facebook.com/ginny.kopf
OP: I'm working with several business clients who are having trouble with the V sound, as in "love, live, save, very..." (clients originally from Cuba, Costa Rica, India, Russia). The Spanish-speakers tend to make a BV combination, so "very" sounds like "berry." My Russian and Indian-speakers tend to make a VW combination, so V's are very light and W's as in "we'll" sounds like "veal."
I've had to be creative in my imagery to get them to say a strong V: "beaver with a chain saw," OR "chipmunk with a power drill"!
This comical image gets them to firmly put their top teeth to their bottom lip, with the friction needed to sound more like a V....!
ME: Wow, Ginny, that's really cool. :} I need to learn (how to) talk. xp http://cab1986orlfl16.blogspot.com/2013/02/20130210-1.html
Hm, you know what, that's funny, my brother went to Costa Rica for school and slid along a wire and I saw like all these pictures on his 'puter. ;D Do you like how I say "love?" :} When I sing, it sounds ro(a(h))ownd. I was so ecstatic I found out how to sing that and didn't know who fed that thought to me nor if it was coming because of what I was doing. 8(( :p ))8 I guess the Spanish speakers are more English-German, like not what some word that begins with an "f" like the Italians and French. That was nice, Ginny, why are you so plebian, why didn't you just say don't make all the "v's" "b's?" So, when I say "love," it sounds like https://www.google.com/search?q=louvre&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a. It sounds like a distant fairtale like an island in the north, like Holland or like maybe a bridge on Spain?? :/ I used to live on the bay. Saint Augustine? The nation's oldest and 2nd oldest continuing city. I was close to Ripley's, hm closer than the bay. What I was able to walk to was the old bookstore. There was a book in there I saw once with my mom of a mama cat, a big cat, carrying a very tiny toy-like baby.. xp Everyone like the song "Babes in Toyland??" I heard a good recording of it.. on AOL Radio maybe around 3 years ago? I tend to read a lot of fiction|fantasy and sci-fi is like scientifically or historically intriging. (sp??) Oh, so you had to be very creative! ;D You know, I don't know if the Indonesians had a related written language but do now and I find it to seem very like Eastern, you know, European. Hey, your dad is from Pennsylvania. You must be pretty funny. Guess you know about the farms on the hills. I went to Rock City Park lots of times..but my grandma never goes.. I love going there and wanted to live in Pittsburgh, or Philly... however haven't been since 15. :| Missed a summer of community theater, I just remembered because I worked somewhere, saw other YATS there later.. However, I aced community college in English and Appreciation in Art in the mornings, had a good summer, got a bigger role and 1 solo sentence singing in a play about a comic, "Li'l Abner," was not happy but learned something.. I'm not from there, but I was pretty mature when we moved. I didn't do a whole lot during the year, but my 1st year I got to do a monologue and it went well... ?: Talented Theater, the reading was hard to understand but had no problems memorizing though I had a hard time in school and was also in Talented Music. Russia, India, Spain. India is nice in an Asian way. You know, my mom isn't really Asian, just has ancient ancestors, you know 6-700 years ago though the Jews I found recently migrated 1500 years ago, the Middle Ages maybe, ... I'm going to ask you after class about because she wants you to help her with her English.. You know, she is also a fitness instructor, used to work at Disney in the mornings teaching yoga. She doesn't want me to share her website.. She'd love to know you. She taught at a business in the New Orleans are and tried desperately to promote her business in exercise and relaxation of the whole body.. :} You know, I think it's good to eat a lot, and for some reason I find I'm eating lots of things like liverwurst, hot dog, hamburger, some pizza.. I got kinda loaded of the beef and at school I guess eat healthy but not like organic tomatos. You know, she's told me stuff I didn't really want to think about, like in New Orleans to be a lifeguard.. and they work like 6|9 hours? and here to do the puppets at Disney..you know, I lost this YouTube years ago..of the Paris parade...? It's funny all I remember, too, is the lady at the beginning. Apparently, in France, they don't go around living Disney.. In New Orleans, it's hard to say it's magic. Things there are more like real, like there, not like some thing you can't do, you know? However =p New Orleans is French and you can't get outof it. So, Florida is all Spanish, and the Spanish want to go over to England.. New Orleans is like the big thing. People from there just don't live without that blessing. All I can say is the other good thing really is the Cleveland area because it's like the coldest place on earth. Not like absolute zero but like the chill is. Chicago might be as cold as where my aunt moved in Florida. I'm guessing anyone from other places have more culture, you know the country in Pennsylvania. People from places like Minnesota? Why is Orlando a circus place? I'm guessing it is, I mean, you know? I mean, I'm from Florida, and I've lived out of Florida, and I have a pretty good idea of what to look for.. I guess I could be a pretty good dancer but not like of an organized dance, maybe am not interested in ballet at the moment, gotta build more muscle. :|- It would be fun in theater, like since you're a vocalist or public orator, to do "Cats" .. bc (you know Andrew Lloyd Webber is for high schoolers.. except like JCS) to do "Cats" so we could dance in the trash! ;D I mean, it would be your kind of class, why not? I guess Valencia should do it, but you should be involved because you do those classes. Also, you know diction! So, I did gymnastics and reluctantly trotted along to begin ballet and was the best but not sharp and not acknowledged like by my mom. :| We had a serious teacher from France, but I guess she didn't have an accent. She moved to Atlanta to teach a college. I was sorta like spaced out, I guess, but I was always feeling like I wasn't very pretty with a huge head. However, otherwise, my head just felt kinda like empty. True, all my physical activity came from gymnastics. I actually did it, and I felt like an Olympian and considered it but finally decided not to, I guess. I guess we couldn't afford to go more, but I went up to 2 days. I also played there and got a lot out of other things I guess like a jungle gym somewhere called Explorations.. I was already pretty physical when we moved and found a place that did ballet, but I have to tell you something I moved and went in the middle of the year and saw kids from my class, 1 who waved who was popular, and they were in ballet at a dance studio with all kinds of things .. combination (jazz, .. tap, + lyrical) and apparently some of them started dance when they were 7.. It was the best studio but I think dance team was bigger, at the public schools. So, it looked very easy, but they were so stuck up + racist, I wasn't the 1.. so I got put in a shitty class with fat baby kids for 2½ years. My friend from Saint Augustine told me to move, and then I went to a school like Orlando City Ballet. It was good, but maybe I should have moved. It's just that I was already almost out of high school and busy, band, gymnastics, music school. I know we were allowed to go once a week or 6 times a week and the dancers there weren't good enough. I learned a lot in college and became pretty talented, better than everyone else when I returned. I got fat, not really tired of ballet but of not being allowed to do anything because I wasn't a full time ballerina. Others were successful before Katrina. Everyone left me there, too. You know, it's funny, in school I had a hard time finishing homework. I was at a Catholic school and didn't get in gifted. Now, I have a desire to major in History. In Florida, I guess the Science class was easier, but it wasn't good in the New Orleans area. You know, the book was easy and maybe the notes were good. I think it was Earth Science. Science in college other than Physics same as the labs in college were easy. I don't know why, but the only history I don't have trouble with other than memorizing lots of things are arts history. Honors history was easy at 1 college. I took a hard music history course somewhere else. I couldn't do AP history in high school because it would take me too long. It seemed it would ruined my future in the arts because I never read like that before. It was too many pages with small text, you know? It was just because it was AP, shouldn't have even been there or I guess should have had a separate Gifted class. I don't remember why, but I got like a 70% maybe on the 1st test. You know, Ginny, there really is a lot out there, should get into things like Europe in general: France, Germany .. other places and Italy. Ahh, guess I should go, for some reason I feel like I've come to some ending. That's probably a good thing, might watch my videos, do some hw or memorizing more,
OP: I'm working with several business clients who are having trouble with the V sound, as in "love, live, save, very..." (clients originally from Cuba, Costa Rica, India, Russia). The Spanish-speakers tend to make a BV combination, so "very" sounds like "berry." My Russian and Indian-speakers tend to make a VW combination, so V's are very light and W's as in "we'll" sounds like "veal."
I've had to be creative in my imagery to get them to say a strong V: "beaver with a chain saw," OR "chipmunk with a power drill"!
This comical image gets them to firmly put their top teeth to their bottom lip, with the friction needed to sound more like a V....!
ME: Wow, Ginny, that's really cool. :} I need to learn (how to) talk. xp http://cab1986orlfl16.blogspot.com/2013/02/20130210-1.html
Hm, you know what, that's funny, my brother went to Costa Rica for school and slid along a wire and I saw like all these pictures on his 'puter. ;D Do you like how I say "love?" :} When I sing, it sounds ro(a(h))ownd. I was so ecstatic I found out how to sing that and didn't know who fed that thought to me nor if it was coming because of what I was doing. 8(( :p ))8 I guess the Spanish speakers are more English-German, like not what some word that begins with an "f" like the Italians and French. That was nice, Ginny, why are you so plebian, why didn't you just say don't make all the "v's" "b's?" So, when I say "love," it sounds like https://www.google.com/search?q=louvre&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a. It sounds like a distant fairtale like an island in the north, like Holland or like maybe a bridge on Spain?? :/ I used to live on the bay. Saint Augustine? The nation's oldest and 2nd oldest continuing city. I was close to Ripley's, hm closer than the bay. What I was able to walk to was the old bookstore. There was a book in there I saw once with my mom of a mama cat, a big cat, carrying a very tiny toy-like baby.. xp Everyone like the song "Babes in Toyland??" I heard a good recording of it.. on AOL Radio maybe around 3 years ago? I tend to read a lot of fiction|fantasy and sci-fi is like scientifically or historically intriging. (sp??) Oh, so you had to be very creative! ;D You know, I don't know if the Indonesians had a related written language but do now and I find it to seem very like Eastern, you know, European. Hey, your dad is from Pennsylvania. You must be pretty funny. Guess you know about the farms on the hills. I went to Rock City Park lots of times..but my grandma never goes.. I love going there and wanted to live in Pittsburgh, or Philly... however haven't been since 15. :| Missed a summer of community theater, I just remembered because I worked somewhere, saw other YATS there later.. However, I aced community college in English and Appreciation in Art in the mornings, had a good summer, got a bigger role and 1 solo sentence singing in a play about a comic, "Li'l Abner," was not happy but learned something.. I'm not from there, but I was pretty mature when we moved. I didn't do a whole lot during the year, but my 1st year I got to do a monologue and it went well... ?: Talented Theater, the reading was hard to understand but had no problems memorizing though I had a hard time in school and was also in Talented Music. Russia, India, Spain. India is nice in an Asian way. You know, my mom isn't really Asian, just has ancient ancestors, you know 6-700 years ago though the Jews I found recently migrated 1500 years ago, the Middle Ages maybe, ... I'm going to ask you after class about because she wants you to help her with her English.. You know, she is also a fitness instructor, used to work at Disney in the mornings teaching yoga. She doesn't want me to share her website.. She'd love to know you. She taught at a business in the New Orleans are and tried desperately to promote her business in exercise and relaxation of the whole body.. :} You know, I think it's good to eat a lot, and for some reason I find I'm eating lots of things like liverwurst, hot dog, hamburger, some pizza.. I got kinda loaded of the beef and at school I guess eat healthy but not like organic tomatos. You know, she's told me stuff I didn't really want to think about, like in New Orleans to be a lifeguard.. and they work like 6|9 hours? and here to do the puppets at Disney..you know, I lost this YouTube years ago..of the Paris parade...? It's funny all I remember, too, is the lady at the beginning. Apparently, in France, they don't go around living Disney.. In New Orleans, it's hard to say it's magic. Things there are more like real, like there, not like some thing you can't do, you know? However =p New Orleans is French and you can't get outof it. So, Florida is all Spanish, and the Spanish want to go over to England.. New Orleans is like the big thing. People from there just don't live without that blessing. All I can say is the other good thing really is the Cleveland area because it's like the coldest place on earth. Not like absolute zero but like the chill is. Chicago might be as cold as where my aunt moved in Florida. I'm guessing anyone from other places have more culture, you know the country in Pennsylvania. People from places like Minnesota? Why is Orlando a circus place? I'm guessing it is, I mean, you know? I mean, I'm from Florida, and I've lived out of Florida, and I have a pretty good idea of what to look for.. I guess I could be a pretty good dancer but not like of an organized dance, maybe am not interested in ballet at the moment, gotta build more muscle. :|- It would be fun in theater, like since you're a vocalist or public orator, to do "Cats" .. bc (you know Andrew Lloyd Webber is for high schoolers.. except like JCS) to do "Cats" so we could dance in the trash! ;D I mean, it would be your kind of class, why not? I guess Valencia should do it, but you should be involved because you do those classes. Also, you know diction! So, I did gymnastics and reluctantly trotted along to begin ballet and was the best but not sharp and not acknowledged like by my mom. :| We had a serious teacher from France, but I guess she didn't have an accent. She moved to Atlanta to teach a college. I was sorta like spaced out, I guess, but I was always feeling like I wasn't very pretty with a huge head. However, otherwise, my head just felt kinda like empty. True, all my physical activity came from gymnastics. I actually did it, and I felt like an Olympian and considered it but finally decided not to, I guess. I guess we couldn't afford to go more, but I went up to 2 days. I also played there and got a lot out of other things I guess like a jungle gym somewhere called Explorations.. I was already pretty physical when we moved and found a place that did ballet, but I have to tell you something I moved and went in the middle of the year and saw kids from my class, 1 who waved who was popular, and they were in ballet at a dance studio with all kinds of things .. combination (jazz, .. tap, + lyrical) and apparently some of them started dance when they were 7.. It was the best studio but I think dance team was bigger, at the public schools. So, it looked very easy, but they were so stuck up + racist, I wasn't the 1.. so I got put in a shitty class with fat baby kids for 2½ years. My friend from Saint Augustine told me to move, and then I went to a school like Orlando City Ballet. It was good, but maybe I should have moved. It's just that I was already almost out of high school and busy, band, gymnastics, music school. I know we were allowed to go once a week or 6 times a week and the dancers there weren't good enough. I learned a lot in college and became pretty talented, better than everyone else when I returned. I got fat, not really tired of ballet but of not being allowed to do anything because I wasn't a full time ballerina. Others were successful before Katrina. Everyone left me there, too. You know, it's funny, in school I had a hard time finishing homework. I was at a Catholic school and didn't get in gifted. Now, I have a desire to major in History. In Florida, I guess the Science class was easier, but it wasn't good in the New Orleans area. You know, the book was easy and maybe the notes were good. I think it was Earth Science. Science in college other than Physics same as the labs in college were easy. I don't know why, but the only history I don't have trouble with other than memorizing lots of things are arts history. Honors history was easy at 1 college. I took a hard music history course somewhere else. I couldn't do AP history in high school because it would take me too long. It seemed it would ruined my future in the arts because I never read like that before. It was too many pages with small text, you know? It was just because it was AP, shouldn't have even been there or I guess should have had a separate Gifted class. I don't remember why, but I got like a 70% maybe on the 1st test. You know, Ginny, there really is a lot out there, should get into things like Europe in general: France, Germany .. other places and Italy. Ahh, guess I should go, for some reason I feel like I've come to some ending. That's probably a good thing, might watch my videos, do some hw or memorizing more,
