Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from  28.05.2015 16:56   
   about Explain to me please....   
      
      
    ak>> My Oxford dictionary can pronounce words, but I still cannot find   
    ak>> "the quite difference" between sinner and singer.   
      
      
    ak>> The main problem IMHO in the nasal sound in "ing".   
      
      
    AH> Heh. I reckon I probably learn as much from my Russian friends as   
    AH> they do from me... and there's an example! I hadn't thought of the   
    AH> "ng" as a nasal sound because the mechanics of sound production are   
    AH> not my forte, but I remember enough from linguistics class to look   
    AH> up "glottal stop". That's the phenomenon where (e.g.) people   
    AH> actually enunciate the /g/ in "- ing". In some regional dialects   
    AH> people do. Dallas & I had a friend... now deceased... from   
    AH> Manchester who did so, and THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE   
    AH> ENGLISH LANGUAGE confirms both your perceptions & mine here. The   
    AH> nasal sound in "- ing" may be transcribed phonetically as an "n"   
    AH> with a tail, like a "g". The idea is that it's half way beween "-   
    AH> in" and the version where the "g" is fully enunciated.   
      
   Have you seen some teaching guide or a picture in the Internet so I could see   
   how to fold my tongue and where to put it to pronounce "ing" properly? ;)   
   "Glottal stop" tells me not very much.   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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