Nunzioaccent coach
consonant · the sound library

“n” as in nose

Written /n/ 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

“n” slipping into “ng” (as in sing)

Bring your tongue tip up to touch the ridge behind your top teeth instead of raising the back of the tongue.

“You sing from the back room! Come to the front, bello — tongue tip up, touching behind the top teeth. Nnn!”Nunzio, when he hears it

Where it lives in real words

in on and can dan hen

Compared head to head

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

It also likes to turn up uninvited

People often say “n” when a word actually wants “ng” as in sing — 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.