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Consonant Sound / ŋ / (NG) as in "thing"- American English Pronunciation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2024
- Learn how to pronounce the consonant sound /ŋ/ used in words like "going," "long," or "bring."
Improve your American accent with four phonetic exercises recorded by a professional speech therapist.
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Quick links:
• Consonant sound /ŋ/, as in "thing:" 00:00
• How to recognize the /ŋ/ in words: 01:00
• The consonant sound /ŋ/ cheat sheet: 02:25
• How to make the consonant sound /ŋ/: 02:43
• Typical mistakes in pronunciation of the /ŋ/: 03:38
• Pronunciation exercise 1: 05:48
• Pronunciation exercise 2: 07:49
• Pronunciation exercise 3: 09:03
• Pronunciation exercise 4: 10:16
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#AmericanPronunciation #ConsonantSounds #NasalSounds
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TRANSCRIPT
Hello there! This is the "Sounds American" channel.
In this video, we're going to talk about the American consonant sound /ŋ/, as in the word "thing." You can also hear this sound in words like "sing," "long," "bank" or "uncle."
We'll be using a special phonetic symbol - /ŋ/ - for this sound.
Many non-native English speakers don't realize they have difficulty with the /ŋ/ sound. However, this sound is often distorted, which noticeably affects their American pronunciation.
The good news is that once you know how the /ŋ/ sound is spelled and how to pronounce it correctly, you will sound more like an American.
Let's start with learning how to recognize the /ŋ/ in written words.
1.The /ŋ/ is most commonly represented by the combination of letters '-ng' at the end of words.
So, when you see a word that ends with the 'ng' combination, you should always pronounce the sound /ŋ/. For example: "going," "long," "king."
As you may have already noticed, the final 'g' is not pronounced, as it belongs to the /ŋ/ sound.
2. Sometimes you may find the combination 'ng' in the middle of a word. For example: "English," "finger," "jungle."
Now take a look:
In these words the letter 'n' is still pronounced as /ŋ/, but you should also pronounce the letter 'g' as it's part of the next syllable.
3. And finally, there's one last case. Listen to these words: "think," "thank" or "zinc."
The letter 'n' is pronounced as /ŋ/ as it occurs before the letter 'k' or the letter 'c.'
If it still feels complicated, here's a quick summary:
• If you see a word that ends with 'ng,' you have the /ŋ/ sound
• If you see the letter 'n' before the letters 'g,' 'k' or 'c,' pronounce the 'n' as /ŋ/.
And now, let's find out how to make the /ŋ/ sound.
To make the /ŋ/ sound correctly, it's important to pass the air through your nose.
Let's take a closer look at how to do that:
Pull the back of your tongue toward your throat.
Next: stop the air in your mouth with the back of your tongue and direct into your nose.
If you make this sound correctly, you should be able to stretch out this sound, like this: /ŋ-ŋ-ŋ-ŋ-ŋ/
Now, let's try saying it: /ŋ/, /ŋ/, /ŋ/
Here are a few typical mistakes people make when pronouncing the /ŋ/ sound:
1. The most common mistake is when people pronounce the /ŋ/ as the /n/ and /g/ sounds.
As a result, the /ŋ/ is distorted and sounds like /ng/. Remember, even though the /ŋ/ is represented by the two letters 'ng', it's still a single sound. The letter 'g' is never pronounced in the 'ng' combination at the end of words. Listen: "sing" /siŋ/ but not "sing" /sing/ or /siŋg/
2. This is similar to the previous problem when the /ŋ/ is pronounced as two sounds.
Some people don't pronounce the final 'g' when making the /ŋ/, and that's great, except for the fact that they pronounce the voiceless sound /k/ instead. As a result, the /ŋ/ sounds more like /nk/.
This way the word "sing" will sound more like "sink." Which, by the way, is a totally different word.
Compare: "sing" - "sink."
3. Finally, some people distort the /ŋ/ by placing the tip of the tongue to the alveolar ridge or against the back of their upper front teeth. As a result, the /ŋ/ sounds more like the /n/ sound.
[Pronunciation exercise 1]
• being
• bring
• doing
• dying
• going
• king
• lying
• ring
• sing
• sling
• sting
• swing
• thing
• wing
• wring
[Pronunciation exercise 2]
• along
• among
• bang
• belong
• gang
• hang
• hung
• long
• slang
• song
• strong
• sung
• swung
• wrong
• young
[Pronunciation exercise 3]
• bank
• crank
• donkey
• drank
• drink
• drunk
• ink
• junk
• length
• monkey
• pink
• thank
• think
• uncle
• zinc
[Pronunciation exercise 4]
• anger
• angle
• angry
• bungle
• congress
• English
• finger
• hunger
• hungry
• jungle
• language
• mingle
• shingle
• single
• triangle
You're done!
🎉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: th-cam.com/channels/-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDg.htmlcommunity
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. 🎉
This is great! By the way, we also have tons of information on pronunciation on our website: soundsamerican.net/, check it out, if you're interested.
i thought the g in sing was supposed to be pronounced, my life isn't the same anymore.
+Alex 🤣 who knows what other revelations life has prepared.:)
Are you a native American ?
Yes!!! Me too!!! All of my life i thought the same haha
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'
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!
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+Wendy Reyes , glad you liked it! Don't forget to subscribe 😀😉
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
A very hard sound. :)
Can't agree more!
Literally impossible
@@priza_yt as a Brazilian, I agree lol we don't have this sound
I'm spanish native, it's very easy for me, even though we use the "n" sound
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?
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”.
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. ❤
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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!
Glad to hear our channel is so helpful!
Extremely amazing explanation
+German Tovar , oh, thank you! Glad to hear it!
Excellent video, I will use it to learn the phonetic alphabet, pronunciation and improve my English study. Thank you.
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
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Yony
@@SoundsAmerican hung
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.
In case you want to dig a little deeper 😎: soundsamerican.net/article/single_or_engaged_one_of_these_words_doesnt_have_the_n_sound_but_which_one
Not in Brazilian Portuguese :/ Portuguese people, Galicians and Spanish speakers are able to say it but Brazilians can't
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!
All of them? That's amazing!
@@SoundsAmerican yeah. Thank you 😊
I can correct my pronunciation thanks to your videos. Thank you so much.
Chào
Thank you for share your videos with us! I really appreciate it. 🧠
Thank you for the great video!!! I tought this sound was use only at the end of words.
+Clemente Padilla Live and learn, right? :) We're glad this video was helpful.
This video is amazing, thanks bud
This is sooo incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for making this video!
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.
+Lydia Khelil Thank you Lydia! Awesome tip, we like it!
Thank you also for the kind words 😊.
Lydia Khelil what is alveolar ridge?
+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:
th-cam.com/video/q5a2-KuHkBU/w-d-xo.html
Hope it helps!
I don’t know how to thank you enough, your channel is really helpful thanks a lot 🌹
You're very welcome!
great video for / ŋ / (NG) sound i hope more videos. Thank you.
This video really help me Thank you Sound American 👌 awesome video
Excellent, glad to hear that!
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!
Of course, practice will fix it. Let us know how it goes!
Yo its 2018 and I'm Canadian.. hiiii wassup I'm 15 and can't pronounce ng right!! great.
You video is really helpful! I couldn't tell the difference between "ban" and "bang" before. Now I know, but still need a lot of practice.
+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 sounds /ŋ/ is difficult for non native speaking
Yeah. It and "th" voiced and voiceless sounds. I almost broke my tongue trying to pronounce "length".
I don't know how to put tongue in this position
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
@@jeflm18 yeah gladly were brazilians, it makes it so much easier to pronounce the ŋ
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.
Thank you your video that help me a lot! :)
You're welcome!👋
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.
N before c or k is actually ŋ in Spanish too, natives just don't notice.
@@KaiiAyrenNevaeh you're right!
@@KaiiAyrenNevaeh Yes, “n” sounds like this before hard “c”, both “g” and “j”.
Thank you for lessons which are so helpful and useful.
+ tanya tanya , you're welcome! Glad to hear you found them useful!
Thanks a lot. I found it very useful
really, i've learnt more here than at my school haha xD thanks!!
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This really helped me in my phonetics course. Thank you!
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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
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..
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
nasal is not easy for me, especially / ŋ /. I often pronounce it like /n/. But I will practice more and more. Many thanks to your Chanel
Yes, we know, these sounds are difficult for many people. The good news is that practice makes perfect. Let us know how it goes!
@@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
Wonderful!thanks your video!
As always, thank you for your help!!
omg, this helps alot, I wish there is an app I can download, thanks so much
+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!
your videos are so much helpful to me. Thanks
Thank you so much! Now I can't even read a sentence that has this phonetic 🤦♀️ I used to pronounce the g 🤦♀️ anyway you are the best🙏🌹
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.
"length" sounds more like /leiŋθ/ instead of /leŋθ/ to me. Is that so? Thanks!
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+Muhammad Tufa , thank you!
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.
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I loved this lesson , thank for you this amazing and helpfull video
+klaylana silva , awesome! Thank you! Stay tuned for our new videos :).
Thanks for clearing this up. It made me confused the usages ug and UK, case in point the words sink vs sing that I pronounced sing as sink.
Glad it was helpful!
thanks for this lesson ..it was very useful ..
+Adam Adam , glad to hear that! :)
Thank you :)
You're welcome!
It's helpful
this is really helpful. I have been in the US for a few years, but still mis-pronounce this sound.
+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!
Great!
Thank you so much sir 💜
Welcome!
Thanks a lot
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 was thinking "among us" has the pronunciation "...ŋas", but it's "...ŋgas".
Curious
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.
Thank you so much. This is a perfect channel. Please make a video of the dark L.
+Clemente Padilla You're welcome! Sure, stay tuned!
The best vídeo about this theme
thanks
+Lisandro Costa , you're very welcome! :)
This video is awesome. Thank you very much.
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I am from Viet Nam thank you very much.
+ long nguyen You're welcome!
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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 ?
No, the /g/ is not pronounced in this case.
graet video thank you for your time that you took for help us
+pedro , you're welcome! Glad that you liked our videos.
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
you are the best ever yet
+Bendy Jean-louis , thank you! Glad you like our channel! 😀👋
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+Alhussein Ali 😀👋
thank you, it very clean explain, but when i use ELSA APP, this pronunciation still wrong. i don't know how to fix that....
Did you complete all the exercises?
Thank a bunch.i realized how can I pronounce😇
You're welcome!👋
Lately, I've noticed that the regional ŋ is replaced by the hard "g" sound. And this seems to be spreading across media. Have you noticed this?
Yes, you're right, we've noticed this too. )
Strange to came to know the reality of the pronounciation, thanks a lot.
English pronunciation and spelling are very tricky.
I was mispronouncing a lot of words. Funny that without the video I couldn't have noticed the difference at all.
Here's some more practice for you: soundsamerican.net/articles?tag=sound_ng
I'm watching this after 6 years.
Hello, Thanks for your support.
Doing and dying
:) Don't overdo it, little by little will get you far enough!
Thanks. I love you.
We love you too!😊👋
3:20 ... Richer!
Just kidding.. the video is amazing, thanks a lot! :D
Absolutely wonderful
Glad you liked it! 😊👋
Hello, thank you very much for this great lesson. Question: why singer does not pronounce like finger?
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!
@@SoundsAmerican Thank you very much :)
I love this channel !!! I've searched all over TH-cam 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! :)
Who is Hadar?
@@SoundsAmerican hahaha. Sorry, typo
Hello
- in the word (congratulation) The letter n followed by g can i change the letter n to /ŋ/ - if not why. Thank you.
this is awesome...sounds american
+pho 😁 thank you!
very good
+Azaan Rehman, thank you! Glad you liked it! :)
Thank you soo much that's soo helpful 💖💖💖
+Sardonia Huner , you're welcome!
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
Glad to hear our video was helpful!
You have a really good video, they are really useful! Just wondering what is the application that you are using in your video (practice part) thanks
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!
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!
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