Nunzioaccent coach
consonant · the sound library

“ng” as in sing

Written /ŋ/ 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

“ng” slipping into “n” (as in nose)

Keep your tongue tip down behind your bottom teeth and raise the back of your tongue to the soft palate instead.

“The tip of the tongue is an impostor here! Keep it DOWN, and lift the BACK of the tongue, way back — nnng, from the back!”Nunzio, when he hears it

Where it lives in real words

long sang along thank think wrong

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: sing vs nose.

It also likes to turn up uninvited

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