🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓You can start with the article about the /ŋ/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_ng_as_in_thing
Dear people behind this work, I have just finished all your videos and I must tell you that thanks to your work, many people like me will be able to beat the fear that learning a language, not only English, produces within us due to our lack of confidence in our pronunciation. Learning the phonetic alphabet has been really easy with your work and I will be forever grateful for it. Keep your great work.
Wow, thank you! BTW, if you haven't seen it, we share a lot of good information on our Community page here: ru-vid.com/show-UC-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDgcommunity
GOAT tutorial. After 5 minutes of following along, I can pronounce this ŋ sound whenever I want effortlessly and I can totally feel and control the tongue movement. Thanks for the great work. 🎉
Thank you so much for these videos. I am using them in my phonetics class at the university and the students are so happy with them because they have improved their pronunciation a great deal.
+Jhon Hernandez , you're very welcome and we're glad to hear these videos are helpful! We'd love to have more teachers in our community and if you have any suggestions for the content of our videos, please, share!
Wow, English is my native language, only to find out I'm not even speaking correctly. No wonder those who come here from other countries have such a hard time, I'll try to do better. ❤
Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese also support this “ng” sound like “mang-nga” (Japanese comic), while it seems no English vocabulary which contains “NG” sound in the first two letters. However, I just see some words like “Google Ngram Viewers”.
Thanks a lot for making this channel! It's changing my life because I am learning all the sounds and I didn't even know that they existed! Pronunciation is key to me because I work as an instructional aide ! Thanks a lot! I love this channel! God bless you all!
Beside many words, I've always felt unnatural pronouncing the word "singing" with 2 Gs. Thanks a lot for this amazing video and for all the other great ones you make
you folks behind this videos it really helps so much particularly the part about practicing and repeat, im listening, repeating, and finally recording my pronunciation to compare it with that in video to see if my pronunciation is good or bad
What? I dont understand what are you talking about. /ng/ is pronounced as a single sound, right? Unless it is in the middle of another consonant followed by a vowel, like siNGle, miNGle, or uN(g)cle not like siNg, riNG, or briNG. Or you are refering to English speakers change /ŋ/ to /n/ when they change a root word into gerund like, siNG:siNGiNG:siNGiN', swim:swimmiNG:swimmiN'
Wow!!! It was really helpful for those like me who speak English as a second language. Even though there's the ŋ sound in Portuguese, I had never noticed there are words like "singer" where the G isn't pronounced. Thanks a lot and keep up the amazing work.
It's not the same sound 😢 I am teaching Spanish to some people who speak English and they tell me I don't pronounce "thing" and sing" properly . They can tell the difference between that sound and "n" 😅@@iittsdasty How did you learn it?
I have finished watching all the videos. Oh gosh. It was too difficult, but it'd be more difficult if I didn't find the best channel ever. Thank you! You guys are really amazing!
Omg it took me decades to realize that there is such a consonant. Trying to ponounce it is really confusing, because it's so different than pronouncing /n/. But I guess practice can fix it :) Thank you so much!
I really love what you're doing! You got a pure American accent, I can listen to it for hours without getting rid of it. I just wanna give a trick that I used to do before I'd learnt how to make this sound correctly. I used to put the tip of my index on my alveolar ridge to make sure that my toungue is backward & that the air is escaping through my nose. I truly wish this trick helps those who couldn't get the sound.
+Carola Cordova. I'm not Lydia, but I can answer your question. The alveolar ridge is also called the tooth ridge, it's the hard bump behind your upper front teeth. Please, watch an extract of this video, we're pointing at the alveolar ridge: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q5a2-KuHkBU.html Hope it helps!
+Xiangmeng Ge glad to hear that! Yes, the /n/ and the /ŋ/ are often problematic for our students. However, once they learn how to pronounce the /ŋ/, they quickly learn how to distinguish between those two. Yes, practice is necessary and very helpful! :) Good luck! :)
This nasal sound is not easy for people who speak Spanish. My students have a lot of problems, but I try to practice with them more and more during the classes.
I've been redirected from your app (English sounds) to watch your videos on youtube, and I can say, some of them souds are challenging to pronounce especially at the time of speaking you don't remember where to place your tongue, and you do it how you would do with your mother tongue instead, but the fact is that I'm using ELSA speaking A.I app to avoid mispronoun the sound I try to master.. Feel thankful for ur app and also for ur YB content Blessings from Nicaragua..
My native language is Spanish, but I still remember pronouncing this consonant and wondering why nobody though of that, I was even thinking of creating a new language with new words (like this "ng"), now i find out that I am not the only one who thought of this
+Tim Nhim Glad to hear our videos helped! We're using our own app which is not released to the public yet. We're working hard to make it happen soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
@@SoundsAmerican I have been practicing for 2 weeks, and I almost got it. But some words like: uncle, jungle, bungle, etc (u+n) I still make mistakes. But I will practice more and more
Also, because the letter 'x' makes a /kʃ/ sound in the word "anxious", the 'n' actually has an /ŋ / sound too. So n > ŋ before x too? Also, "jink", "sphinx", "minx" where the x is making /ks/. However, that seems to be a more obscure generalization. I'm really drawing a blank trying to think of a lot of 'nx' word examples.
u r really the most fantastic Channel 4 the American Sounds .. very glad to discover such an awesome channel .. Keep Going .. and thanks so so much 4 ur awesome and very useful vids ..
I'm shocked that the word length is pronounced with k. I thought it was just 'lengh' without the g but never noticed there was a k instead... lol... love this chanel!!!! And yes! I definetly used to pronounce the g in ng ending words... haha... gotta work on that!
I got trouble connecting other sounds with this one. Move your tongue that back fast enough to not pronunce a little \ before \ŋ\ it's tough. I'm trying to deal with it. Great channel dude :) Specially ɪ ---> ŋ
In portuguese br we have many nasals sounds, that song /ŋ/ could be found in words like domingo /domiŋɡo/. I'm explaining that now, but I have never thought about it before haha
In Philippines we do have traditional character for /ŋ/ (: ᜅ/ᜥ/ᝥ/ᝅ) but since we adapted latin characters we use /ng/ as a single alphabet instead. Altho I disagree, many non native speakers even most are having difficult accent in English or non speaker at all, yet they can pronounce /ŋ/ with an ease. Cus This velar phoneme is pretty common around the world hence most langauges also use this sound as well.
+JM Guo, it's one of the most frequently mispronounced sounds in English. Takes a lot of time to learn to pronounce it correctly. Glad to hear this video is helpful for you!
This is one of the most complicated sounds for me, then there are some hellish sounds to pronounce like ʊ, u, gz (pegs), and somehow ɑ: is different from ʌ but I hear them as if they were the same
I love this channel !!! I've searched all over RU-vid but I haven't found many videos on how to pronounce words ending in -nger. For example: I know we have to (kinda) stop the air when pronouncing words like singer, hanger, ringer etc. But are anger, stronger, and finger in the same category? Thanks again, Hadar. You're amazing! :)
I am making a quick revising book that contains everything that you said + things I have researched for the consonant part, will share it with everyone
This is awesome! Please, note the terms of use of our materials (soundsamerican.net/article/terms_of_use). If you have any questions, let us know, we'll do our best to help you. BTW, do you have experience with book design and composition?
@@SoundsAmerican sure, it'll be totally free and I just need the pictures that show the mouth position and definitely I'll provide the attributions. I appreciate your concerns and I'll comply accordingly. Also, I do have some bit of experience and rest I'd learn.
Sure, thank you! We asked if you had experience because we might need someone who could help us with book design and composition some time later this year.
Thank you for the video!! You deserve a lot more subscribers. I have a question when I took an accent class, the teacher said there is a little g at the end of "ing", and sometimes I feel like I do hear Native speakers saying it. Are all these people mispronouncing it, is that perfect pronunciation, or what is going on?? Thanks you again!!
Hi there. First of all I really appreciate what you are doing. I use your videos to teach the phonetic symbols at university and the students really enjoy them. Just one question about this one. In the video you said that when /n/ is followed by /g/ sound in the middle of a word it gets this sound but what about the word "engage"? Because I looked it up in different kinds of dictionaries and there was just the /n/ sound.
Hello there! Say hi to your students from our team! We're glad our videos are helpful. You're asking a great question! The letter 'N' in the word "engage" is in an unstressed syllable: "en'gage," so it represents the /n/ sound. If 'N' is in a stressed syllable, it's typically pronounced as /ŋ/: "singer" /ˈsɪŋ·ɚ/, "hunger" /ˈhʌŋ·ɡɚ/, "ringer" /ˈrɪŋ·ɚ/. Hope it helps!
I'm curious about it, too. Will a /g/ also be pronounced in case the next thing is a vowel sound? Maybe our ears are not trained to get these sound subtleties.
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
Thank you very much, I had a big problem with the pronunciation of g after n at the end of the word, is it pronounced or not, until I found a solution for you
Congratulation for offering useful knowledge! In words that end in -nk and -nc the k-consonant (e.g. "think," "thank" or "zinc."), the k -consonant is unaspirated as it's at the end of the word, right?
Thank you! You helped me out a lot. I think that a lot of native speakers are speaking English the way they see it. Many Americans are taught the alphabets and vowels as a child to only come to the realization that the pronunciation of the English language varies differently with the letters we learned. So, "ing" is pronounced by the back of the tongue blocking off the air flow, pronounced through the nose, through the mouth and redirecting it to the nose, but also different from the "N" tongue placement at the front of the mouth and also from the "G" voiced and "K" unvoiced at the back of the mouth. G is on "ing" is not pronounced.
Hello. in /g/ and /k/ and /ŋ/ you said ( raise the back of your tongue toward your throat ) my question about the back of tongue in /ŋ/ sound is a little bit more back than /g/ and /k/ sound. Thank you.
It's the same place. The difference is that for the /g/ and /k/ sounds the back of your tongue touches the soft palate to stop the air and then to release it through your mouth, but for the /ŋ/ it's pressed against the soft palate for a little longer to direct the air through your nose.
Great stuff! I really like your channel, always insightful and thought out videos. I wanted to ask a tricky question. When I do this sound, it comes off with a slight but noticeable sound at the end. Sound is similar to k, but k is closer to the ridge, whereas this one happens near the palate. I CAN say "sing" and "sink" and they sound differently, but if I say smth like "singing" or "sing sing sing" it can be heard as the tongue "unsticks" from the top. Should I try to fix it?
+Nick L Hello there! Could you please record yourself saying the words you mentioned (best if you pronounce them several times), upload the file somewhere and give us a link? It's too difficult to offer advice without hearing how you pronounce that sound.🤔
Hey there, thanks for your willingness to help! Really appreciated. After I left that post, I actually spent some time practicing the sound, and I think I'm getting the hang of it, slowly, but surely. It sounds like this (please turn down volume before playing), www.dropbox.com/s/vxqfs7nevhtrn65/singing%20sing%20sing.mp3?dl=0 , I thinks its actually decent. :) I think that because our mouths are all different, due to "structural difference", some people may have unavoidable clicks here and there. I came to this conclusion by digging around the net, in forvo.com, checking ing-ings and ang-ings, and some people do have this "clicks"/"pops". Here's an example from M-W where I can hear the same sound learnersdictionary.com/definition/sing . So, with time and practice (I think) anyone can improve to the point when little pops like that won't matter in their speech. Thanks again! It came out a bit long, sorry.
+Nick L, Hello there, Nick! Np, we're glad to help! We've listened to your recording. Sounds like you've got it! We couldn't hear any redundant clicks or pops, your / ŋ/ sounds great. Now we recommend practicing as many words as possible and then advance your pronunciation skills. The speech-language pathology model to improve pronunciation recommends that once you're able to make the sound in words to then begin to use the sound in words in sentences (up to 2-3 words per sentences). You could initially read these aloud at first if it's necessary. Then move to conversation, focusing only on making sure that you make your / ŋ/ correctly. BTW, did you see our advanced exercise for this sound? It's pretty challenging 😊 but it works. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pVptIO1xMoQ.html Hope it helps! Let us know if you have any other questions!
In the sentence "The long bus is there", is the "g" pronounced or not ? I know that when we have a combination of n+g at the end of the word we don't pronounce the "g", but in this case there is a word after it. So, does the rule also apply ?
Thanks for making these amazing videos! Very helpful in understanding American pronunciations. Is there a website we can get access to these sound board?
Great question! In the word "finger," the letters 'N' and 'G' belong to different syllables (there's no such word as "fing" in English, so 'N' is pronounced as /ŋ/ and 'G' is pronounced as /ɡ/: /ˈfɪŋ·ɡɚ/. In the word "singer," the letters 'N' and 'G' are in the same syllable ("singer" is a form of the verb "sing," so they are pronounced as one sound /ŋ/: /ˈsɪŋ·ɚ/. Hope this helps!
Un video excelente, mi inglés es bueno, pero mi pronunciación falla a veces, con esto puedo entrenar a diferenciar sonidos y a perfeccionar mi pronunciación, gracias.
