Producing /f/

How to produce /f/

Rest your top teeth lightly on your lower lip and blow air through the gap — no voice. It is the voiceless partner of /v/. Common L2 errors: /p/ (fan → pan, both lips close), /h/ or a two-lip 'φ' (fine → hine), and voicing it into /v/ at the end (leaf → leave).

Practice the sound in isolation

Say 'fan' slowly. Hold the target sound. Record yourself — does it match your mental model of the native version?

A few varied words

• Initial: fan, five, family
• Medial: coffee, after, office
• Final: leaf, life, laugh