Nasalizing Vowels in English (before M/N/NG) & N Dropping

Did you know that natives commonly *partially* nasalize vowels before the nasal consonant sounds (M, N, and NG)? Not only does this allow us to speak more easily, but it also allows us to do some cool things, like drop the N!

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Intro to Concept and Key Info: (0:00)
Warning!: (2:23)
The Basics of Nasalization (with EE and AW examples): (2:45)
Intro to Dropping N - "don't": (5:51)
The Vowel + NT Rule (8:03)
Dropping N by itself: (10:42)
Question and Up Next: (13:47)

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[deliohector]

I used to notice this partial nasalyzation in “can't” and “answer”, but I had no idea you could use it in the other cases you mentioned. Cool!

[deliohector]

Oh, interesting! I actually used to go out of my way and try to avoid nasalyzing the vowel in words like “invite” and “confuse”. This lesson is liberating, in a way, so thank you.😊

[steveduarte]

Thank you so much! I had noticed that before and talked about it with other people. Everyone else thought I was crazy lol, good to know I was right about the n dropping

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[mry]

I've always felt that nasalizing thing but when I hear teachers say English is not nasalized I thought I might be delusioned but yet whenever I say " CAN'T" i find myself nasalizing NT unconsciously
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[LuizFernando-lidu]

Very interesting video, I've never noticed that the natives can drop the "N" sound in some instances.

[douglasmarinho]

I loved this lesson and I already did this partial nasalization because I thought it was easier to pronounce that way when I'm speaking fast and yeah I did! Specially when they pronounce can't I recognized the nasalization totally

[mathersmarshall]

Just now I watched this video again. Great!

[denou]

I'm a native Portuguese speaker. I had seen this video show up on my YouTube recommendations before, but put it on the 'Watch Later' list because I didn't have the time to watch it at the time. Quite a long while ago, I had heard that English is a language without nasalized vowels, so you should not nasalize any of the vowels, like Portuguese, Spanish and French speakers do. So, I tried to do that, back then, but it just sounded really weird. So I just forgot about it and continued to nasalize the vowels as usual, which sounded less weird, but still sounded kinda off. NOW, watching your video, the thing that really did the trick for me was this balance between not-nasalized and fully-nasalized... It really makes a difference, I wish I had watched it before. Also, it helped me to easily pronounce the nasalized version of Æ, that I could never properly pronounce. Before, whenever I would pronounce words like "chance", "lance", "camera" etc., I would just sound British, lol. I've stumbled upon your channel some time ago and have been following it since. You have so many useful videos about things that I had never heard from other teachers, and also some different perspectives on how some things work in the American Accent. I just wanted to take the time to write this and thank you for making these videos. They are extremely helpful!

[laracroftvideos]

Incredible work!!! Also so glad you included the ever controversial can vs. can’t issue, I was hoping you’d bring it up and I kept screaming at you the entire video until you did 😂😂😂 (not really lol 😅).

[YosukeYano]

I've never seen this information anywhere, so I'm so impressed! Thank you.
This is interesting, because /n/ in the Japanese language before fricative sounds has exactlly the same sound change. I'm a Japanese language teacher who loves phonetics.

Can all fricative sounds before nasal sounds change into Nasalizing Vowels?

For example,

- concern /s/
- enhance /h/
- information /f/
- involve /v/
- insurance /ʃ/
- unthankful /θ/
- in those /ð/

[mathersmarshall]

Thank you for sharing. Will vowels be nasalized in General American English accent?