hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation lesson today we
are talking about two sounds at the end of a word only I've been working with a
lot of native Spanish speakers who are speaking English very fluently and
they're doing a beautiful job but the sounds that they're really struggling
with are m and n at the end of words so let's go ahead and take a look at each
of these sounds so again today's lesson is only about these sounds at the end of
a word so we have m mmmm so to make this M sound all you're going to do is put your
lips together mmm and the air is going to move out of your nose mmm the other
sound is nnn and to make that sound again the sound is coming the air is
coming out of your nose the difference is your mouth is open and the tip of
your tongue is touching the back of your top front teeth nnn so we have again
mmmmm and nnnn this gets very confusing at the
end of the word because they sound very similar and if you don't have this
combination of sounds in your language at the end of words it gets very very
confusing it's important to learn the differences in these endings in certain
words that are minimal pairs and a minimal pair means that the words are
exactly the same except for one sound and in this case we're going to have an
M and an N minimal pair at the end of words and we're going to practice these
words have eight words for you today we're not going to talk much about the
other sounds because again this lesson is about M mm vs. and N nn at the end of
words let's give it a try let's try the M words first term we have a silent
letter here we have the B we don't say it comb
foam and some and sum yes those words are pronounced the same they are spelled
differently now let's try words that end with the n sound turn cone phone and
son now I'm going to try both words to together so you can hear the
difference term turn comb cone foam phone some son I'm gonna try them all one
more time term turn comb cone foam phone some Sun so remember m your lips are
together mmm and n your mouth is open tip of your tongue is touching the back of
your top front teeth nnn both sounds the air goes through your nose so give it a
try I know people are going to notice the difference have you found this
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