Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "velar" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "velar" appears in contexts such as: "Any other favorites? Yeah? Velar nasal. Velar nasal, of course. This is the sound at the end of sing and also at the beginning of the Vietnamese name Nguyen, if you pronounce it right.". You can listen to the exact timestamped audio clip in the accompanying video.

Question 2

Where can I hear "velar" used in a real sentence?

Accepted Answer

Our pronunciation database found 2 conversational video occurrences of "velar" with real-time synchronized transcripts and full surrounding sentence context.

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How to pronounce “velar” in English

All Video Occurrences for “velar” (2)

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