036 M as in Money - N as in No and NG as in Sing
4: The Consonant Sounds: How to Say Them, Drills & Avoiding Faults
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The sounds “M”, “N” and “NG” are nasal sounds - so called because the sound of the voice is pushed into your nasal resonating cavities. These are excellent sounds to use when you want to improve the resonance of your voice.
Humming on a “MMM” sound with your lips together and your teeth apart will allow you to really feel a strong, buzzing, tickling vibration and resonance in the bones of the mask of your face.
The “M” sound is a bilabial nasal sound meaning that you use both lips which you press gently together: “MMM”
Up Next in 4: The Consonant Sounds: How to Say Them, Drills & Avoiding Faults
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037 S as in Speech and Z as in Zoo
Our final pair of voiced and unvoiced sounds are “S” and “Z”.
These sounds are alveolar fricatives so the breath is channeled straight forward into the alveolar ridge: “SSS” “ZZZ”
The “S” sound can become slushy and move towards a “SH” sound. This happens particularly when the S is followed...
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038 W as in Wow and Y as in Yes
This pair of sounds are approximant sounds. “W” and “Y”. These consonant sounds are almost vowels.
“W” is made with a tiny “oo” sound and then moves to the vowel which follows it.
“Y” is made with a tiny “I” sound and then moves to the sound that follows it. Phonetically it is written as a ...
