English Winners. Today we are going to
learn how to pronounce the M, N and
NG sounds. These sounds all use the same
mechanism; it's the nasal passage right
here. And so you're gonna vibrate your
vocal cords - MMM - and let it flow through your
nose.
The first one is the M sound. To
pronounce the M sound, you bring your
lips together like this and then vibrate
your vocal cords and allow sound to flow
through your nose.
321 mm-hmm-mmm
and that's you're M sound. Next is
the N sound to do that in sound it's
going to be a little bit different.
Instead of bringing your lips together,
you're gonna open your mouth slightly
and then bring your tongue up so that
the tip of your tongue - that's this part -
touches the roof of your mouth... just
behind your upper front teeth. So 321
NN-NNN-NNN
Nice. Third, we have the NG sound. Now many
Mandarin Chinese speakers have problems
with the N and NG sound because the
N sounds will be pronounced like an
NG, and so the difference is your tip
of your tongue needs to be touching the
top part of your mouth just behind your
upper front teeth
NN... if you have the middle part of your
tongue that's this part - if that part is
touching the roof of your mouth, you're
going to make that NG sound. So Chinese
speakers: when you're trying to say 'son'
and you haven't learned the ins out it's
going to sound like 'sung' and if you're
thinking of the word 'mind', it's going to
sound like 'maing', so... just making the
tip of your tongue touch the roof of
your mouth will solve that pronunciation
problem.
Finally, how to pronounce NG sound.
The middle part of your tongue - that part
right there - touches the roof of your
mouth... a little bit further back than
where you touched for the N sound... and
just like the N sound, we allow the
sound flow through the nose so NG, NG, NG
speakiNG.
Alright, so we're gonna throw some words
up on the board behind me, and get
started with pronouncing these sounds of
the M, N, and NG sounds. So here are the
words on the board.
We're going to go over them one-by-one...
starting with the M sound... and then the
N sound. That way, you'll separate those
two sounds in your mind, then we'll go
back and forth, so you can practice
changing,
ok? Let's start: might... mope... mice... mary...
N sounds: night...
nope... nice...
nary... back-and-forth: might... night... mope... nope...
mice... nice... and Mary... Nary. Now for the
NG sounds. Up here we have our NG
sounds. Remember, the middle part of your
tongue touches the roof of your mouth
for the NG sounds. Let's go over the
words: dancing... young... Bring... morning.... go over
it one more time, and then we will
advance onward to sentences. Sentence
time! "The mice were dancing all night
long." "In the morning, bring a can of paint."
"In the museum, pedestrians were examining
the massive amounts of mummies." "A month
with no sugar sounds challenging." "The
young children
were left to fend for themselves."
that's it for the M, N, and NG sounds.
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