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.
Start with a full stop — press your tongue tip to the ridge, then release into the voiced friction.
“You skip the beginning! First the tongue SLAMS the door — then it opens with a buzz. Stop, then juice! D-then-zh!”Nunzio, when he hears it
Keep your voice buzzing through the final consonant's stop and release instead of finishing voiceless.
“The ending pops but the buzz is missing! Keep the voice on through the pop, bello — soft and juicy, not crisp and dry!”Nunzio, when he hears it
In the app, this sound is put under pressure in Everyday English — whole sentences built so it cannot hide.
The classic mix-ups involving this sound, one page per pair: jump vs vision, jump vs yes, jump vs chair.
People often say “j” when a word actually wants “zh” as in vision, “y” as in yes — each of those pages shows the way back.
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.