Pronunciation Lab

Practise with trustworthy examples. Reviewed audio is used where it is available. On other items, you can still record, listen back and retry. Pronunciation feedback appears only where this lab has a reviewed feedback check.

See · compare · control the final tongue-back closure

Same tongue-back region; choose oral release for /k/ or nasal airflow for /ŋ/

Both targets use the back of the tongue near the velum. For /k/, build a complete oral closure and release it without voicing. For /ŋ/, keep the oral closure while lowering the velum so air flows through the nose. These are teaching models, not measurements of your mouth.

Oral stop/k/

Schematic target articulation. It is not a measurement of the learner's mouth.

Place: velar
Manner: stop
Tongue tip: —
Airflow: oral release
Voice: voiceless

Nasal/ŋ/

Schematic target articulation. It is not a measurement of the learner's mouth.

Place: velar
Manner: nasal
Tongue tip: —
Airflow: nasal
Voice: voiced

What you are hearing: these short clips come from the reviewed sentence at the end of this lab. Use them as context examples for the sound.