Berry or Very? A B/V Ear Test

berry

/ˈbɛri/

vs

very

/ˈvɛri/

Especially for Spanish & Korean speakers

Spanish famously treats b and v as the same sound (betacism), and Korean has no /v/ phoneme at all — both make this pair genuinely inaudible at first, not just easy to typo.

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One lip position is the whole difference here. See how consistently you catch it.

8 rounds · about 90 seconds

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