B and P sounds in European Portuguese
Channel: TugaLearning
Date: 2017-10-09

The difference between B and P sounds in European Portuguese. Each word is slowly repeated 3 times, and the selection I made combines different vowels to produce similar sounds.

Basically both P and B sounds are the result of pressing the lips together just before the next sound/vowel is pronounced.
The difference is, when pronouncing the P sound the air is strongly exhaled from your mouth, making the air flow between your lips forcibly. The B sound however, is just the result of opening the lips for pronouncing the next sound/vowel.

At the end there's a sentence with several sequential examples of both sounds. A simple exercise that you may perform: in each word identify and write down whether it is a P or B the sound without looking at the video.

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