Hi there, my name is Ronnie, and today I'm going to teach you some pronunciation of something
that is a little bit difficult, hopefully it'll be easy for you.
And I'm going to teach you how to pronounce words that end in "ng".
This includes "ing" or vowel and "ng".
When you think about it, you have learned in English that this is "g" like a "j" or
a "g".
But if it's "n" and "g" together, the sound is different.
It's almost like we don't say the "g" at the end of the word.
So when we have "ng" endings, it sounds more like "ing", "ing", trying to say that, "ing".
My mouth doesn't move a lot, the back of my teeth are closed and it's "ing".
It is voiceless, "ing", sorry, it is voiced.
That means your throat will vibrate when you say it, "ing".
Let's try the first one.
The first one is a verb and it's "bring", "bring".
The past tense of the verb "bring" is strange as well when you pronounce it.
It's actually "brought".
It's not "bro-ga-ta", it's "brought".
Let me write that for you.
"Bring" would sound like this, "br-o-t" is the pronunciation "brought", but the correct
spelling or writing of this word is like this.
So try this, "bring", past, "brought".
Good.
Next, we have another verb.
In the past tense, we say "sung".
You might know the designer Alfred Sung.
We don't say "sung-ga", this word isn't "bring-ga", it's "sung".
The present tense of the verb "sung" is "la-la-la", "sing".
So you can say "sing-sung".
Try that, "sing-sung".
When we pronounce the end of this word, we close off our vocal cords right away so that
we don't actually say the "ga" at the end.
It's a very short sound.
Try this one next.
The past tense of the word "hang" is "hung".
Does anyone know what this word means, "hang" or "hung"?
Anyone?
Verb.
It means to put something up so that it dries.
You can hang up your clothes, or you've actually hung up your clothes in the past tense.
It means to suspend something in the air.
So we have "hang" and "hung", something that's very interesting as well.
In English, if you go and play with your friends, we don't say that in English, "oh no, uh-uh".
That means something totally different.
If you say "I played with my friend", it means you had sex with them, "oh my".
So what you really want to say in English is "I hung out with my friends" or "I'm going
to hang out with my friends".
So I want you to take the word "I'm going to play with my friends" and put it away in
your naughty dictionary, and replace it with these "hang out" or "hung out".
And it's "ung" at the end.
The next one we have is an adjective.
And for you Spanish speakers, remember, this is not a "g", this is a "y".
So this adjective is "young".
There is no "g" sound.
It's a straight "yung".
Try it.
"Yung".
Do you know the opposite of "yung" perhaps?
It's "old".
Good.
Next one is a noun only, please.
It is not a verb, it is a noun, "song".
So if you guys like to sing, you can say "I like to sing a song".
Usually you do not need to say "I sung a song" because it's usually the only thing we sing
are songs.
So pronunciation is "song".
And the lovely last one is another adjective, which is the short form "adg".
If you guys ever see these in a grammar book or in a dictionary and you wonder what this
"v" or this "adg" or an "n" or an adjective is, this is what they mean.
Adjective, noun, adjective.
I will teach you in another lesson what these mean or look in the dictionary.
"Long" is the opposite of, anyone, "short".
So we have "short" and "long".
Pronunciation of this adjective is "long".
Try and pronounce these words.
I will say them, you can repeat.
The first one is "bring", "sung", "hung", "sing", "hang", "young", "song", and the last
one is "young".
Sorry, no it's not, the last one is "long".
I hope that this helped you in your quest to speak English very well.
My name is Ronnie.
Go to www.engvid.com and you can learn more and more.
Bye.