hi everyone this is Jennifer from Tarle speech today's question is about
sounds that we use often at the end of words the N and the N G sound so let's
go ahead and take a look so we have the letter n nn that is the sound that we
typically hear the two letters n G two letters that equal one sound ng
and then this ing endings the suffix that we use ing ing all right so let's
start with the n sound to make this sound the tip of your tongue is going to
be behind the back of your top front teeth it is touching nnn the air is
coming out of my nose nnn the difference is the N is made at the top of the mouth
the ng is made with the tip of the tongue in the bottom of the mouth and
the back of the tongue is pulled up the tip for my students is that because the
G typically goes below the line think of your tongue going into the bottom of
your mouth so we have nnnn ng ng so again two letters one sound some areas in the
country you will hear people make a stronger ng and almost sounds like
there's a G at the end there that's fine what you don't want to do is you don't
want to say in with ink that K sound you want to make sure that you have the ng
and you have a little bit of that G there again it is not a G but we want to
avoid this n K and I'm going to give you an example for that alright so last we
have the suffix ing ing it is not eeeng we are not making along e it is actually a
short I however it does sound a little bit longer than you would hear maybe
and the word pit or sit this vowel is going to sound a little bit longer in
the ing ing ing so to make this what you're going to do is the mouth is going to be
relatively relaxed it's going to be slightly open and your tongue is going
to be just at the bottom of the top front teeth ing and then the tip of my
tongue is going to move to the bottom of my mouth for that ng sound ing ing okay so
let's give these all a try n ng ing ing ing all right so my word example for you is
we're going to start with the wiband that's going to be with puckered lips
and then you're gonna pull back to that short I wi wi win wing and then if
you make the mistake and you make that K at the end it'll sound like wink you can
actually hear that softer puff of air coming out and then when we add the ing
to words we will have winning and winging okay I just made that a super
hard G in there that was a mistake winging winging winging kind of hard
sometimes when you're overthinking it so again we have win wing wink winning
winging winking another tip here is if it's really difficult for you just to do
the ing think about starting with the letter that ends the word so in this
case it would be with Ning wi ning wing King and I did them all let me try
them one more time win wing wink winning winging winking give it a try I
know people are going to notice the difference if you hum this helpful we'd
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