Master the American Accent: How Nasal Consonants Influence Vowels

American English doesn't have nasal vowels...BUT...nasal consonants can influence the way vowels are pronounced! If you want to sound natural to a native speaker, you need to master the nasalization of the American English vowels. Practice your nasalized vowels in this video!

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[JP]

Best video ever on nasal consonants! Thank you!

[AwakenCompassion]

Super helpful!!!. No one else has ever mentioned this including text books, and mystery is solved. The funny thing is that it’s a lot easier for the mouth to produce these nasality sounds than trying hard to make the standard sounds cuz it comes naturally!! Thanks again!!!

[vithalpatil]

Thank you. I had observed these but was not clear about. Now, it's clear to me.

[ramzy-]

the best video for nasalization of the American English vowels. thank you.

[ramzy-]

Congrats Mrs. Julie.
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[accountforaccenttraining]

Another insightful video. Personally I found the examples demonstrating the incorrect pronunciation to be very illuminating in particular - for me, they were the final piece of the puzzle to get that "aha!" moment.

[SamNEWYORK]

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[ramzy-]

why all of your videos amazing and great? every day San Diego Voice and Accent.

[ramzy-]

4:00 you said ( when æ comes before the n and m consonants like
in the words hand and ham it sounds like a combination of AA and UH )
1 - for UH which schwa do you mean the stressed schwa /ʌ/ or unstressed schwa /ə/
2 do you think all the vowels before m and n not affected the vowel before too much, just the air through the nose and schwa.
3- do you think all the vowels before ŋ and ŋk sound affected the vowel before and changed the sound more than n and m sound.
- i'm still working on nasal consonants, i'll send to you after i'll finish to take your opinion.
Thank you so much Mrs. Julie.

[أحمدالدسوقي-تس]

Hi :) I hope you're fine.

I pronounce the "st" cluster in the word "gist", which has the transcription /dʒɪst/, by keeping the tongue behind the bottom front teeth. Specifically, I transition from the /dʒ/ sound to the /ɪ/ sound by moving the tongue from the roof of the mouth to the back of the bottom teeth, then I generate the /st/ cluster without moving the tongue tip to the roof of the mouth, which means that I use the middle of the mouth to produce both of the /s/ and /t/ sounds. I do it that way because I feel it is more efficient and requires less tongue movement. In my case, the tongue will have two positions for the entire word: 1. the first position is for the /dʒ/ sound 2. the second position is for the /st/ cluster. I repeat the same tongue posture for the /st/ cluster regardless of its position in the word.

what is your take on that?

[katerinadidenka]

Thank you, Julie! You hepled me a lot. That's why the Americans sound different from the Brits. This slight nasal twang influence the whole speech, when listening to Bugs Bunnie talking, for example.

[ramzy-]

Hello, if i want to say ( morning /ˈmɔrnɪŋ/ ) without the letter G - is the sound ɪ will change from IH+EE to IH as in ( morning /ˈmɔrn-IH+EE-ŋ/ ) to ( mornin /ˈmɔrn-IH-n/ ) (going /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/) . Thank you so much.

[ramzy-]

0:35 i know the vowel more longer if followed be voiceless sound as in the word sit, and more longer if followed by voiced sound as in the word sin.
- for example pop the vowel o more shorter then the vowel o in the word bob . am i right?

[ayenisundayayodele]

I'm quite confused to know the different between Nasallisation of vowel and syllabic consonant.

[hibbertjahlil]

Do hungry and hungary sound same? The IPA for these two words are different [ˈhʌŋɡri] [ˈhʌŋgəri]. But I can't hear the difference between them. The schwa after the g sound is hard to catch!

[mathersmarshall]

Thanks. I never understood why short i as in "it" is so different as in "in". To me "in" sounds just like a long i but not short i.

[neynazareno]

how do you pronounce the /ɪ/ of a diphthong as in /ɔɪ/ if it comes before a sound /ŋ/ and /n/?

[ramzy-]

1 - are /m/ - /n/ - /ŋ/ effect on all the vowels before them.
2 - is the sound or vowel in the word ( thank ) changed from æ to eʌ or aʌ or ɛʌ or Aʌ or what.
we don't use eʌ or aʌ or ɛʌ in American English but these vowels part of /eɪ/ - /aɪ/ - /ʌ/ as in day /deɪ/ - bite /baɪt/ - up /ʌp/
Thank you so much.

[kay]

I enjoy your videos so much! What about diphthongs? Do you nasalize both sounds in them? For example, when [aɪ] comes before a "n" as in "mine", is it [ãɪ̃] or [aɪ̃]?

[hibbertjahlil]

Some american told me when the /æ/ before the ng sound, it doesn't change to an /eɪ/ sound, if it does, It's a dialect. Is that ture? I am confused! Thank you for your help!