consonant · the sound library

“g” as in go

Written /g/ in the phonetic alphabet — but you will never need that in the app.

One of the 40 sounds Nunzio listens for. When you read a sentence aloud, the app scores every single sound in it on your phone — this page is what he knows about this one: what tends to come out in its place, and what to do about it.

What tends to come out instead

At the end of a word, “g” slipping into “k” (as in cat)

Keep the voice buzzing as the back of your tongue closes against the soft palate at the end.

“The back of the tongue closes, sì, but the voice stays ON! Buzz into the ending, bello — g, warm, not a cold k!”Nunzio, when he hears it

Where it lives in real words

big dog dug get log figs

In the app, this sound is put under pressure in Everyday English — whole sentences built so it cannot hide.

Compared head to head

The classic mix-ups involving this sound, one page per pair: go vs cat.

Reading about a sound is one thing. Hearing which ones you miss is another.

Nunzio records you reading a sentence, scores every sound in it on your phone — nothing is uploaded — and tells you the one thing worth fixing. Nunzio — Accent Coach is coming to the App Store and Google Play.