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Voiced vs. voiceless sounds… It sounds technical, but it’s less complicated than it seems.
It’s just a question of whether or not your vocal cords are vibrating.
Voiceless sounds pass right through your vocal cords like a whisper (if you isolate them properly when you’re testing for it). Voiced sounds turn your vocal cords on and cause vibrations in your throat.
Once you understand that one distinction, consonant pairs like F/V, S/Z, P/B, T/D, and K/G start to make a lot more sense.
One thing to watch out for as you practice: resist the urge to add a vowel onto the end of a consonant. The moment you say "tuh" instead of T, or "muh" instead of MMM, you've added voicing that wasn't there — and it'll skew how you hear everything else.
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