A letter has a name and a sound

B is called "bee", but it says /b/ — a quick pop of the lips, with no "uh" after it. Children need both, and mixing them up is common: "bee" does not help you read "bat".

When you say a letter's sound, keep it short. A stretched sound (mmm, sss) is fine for the letters that stretch; for b, d, p, t, say it once and stop. "Buh" adds a vowel the word does not have.

Other languages start in other places. A Vietnamese child learns to spell a syllable out loud, sound by sound and then the tone (đánh vần); a Spanish-speaking child often learns whole syllables first — ma, me, mi (la cartilla). Use the way your family learned; VầnTots and SílabaTots follow those two.