The sounds (sh) and (zh) are made with a similar mouth position: lips flared forward, teeth close but not touching, and the tongue wide with the tip down, but (like in "shoe") is voiceless (no vocal cord vibration) while (like in "vision") is voiced, meaning you feel a vibration in your throat and between your teeth when producing it. To make , start with the position and add voice; it's the "soft" sound in the middle of words like "pleasure" or "measure".
The grapheme 'ue' can make the same sound as /y/ and /oo/ together (yoo), as in 'due'. 'ue' can also make an /oo/ sound, as in 'glue'. There is no specific pattern so you can try both when decoding a new word.
Eng, agma, or engma (capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a voiced velar nasal (as in English singing) in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
If you or your child are having trouble pronouncing the “NG” sound (found in words like “bang” and “single”), you aren't alone. This sound takes some learning, coordination, and practice to pronounce clearly.
The symbol [ʒ] is usually called "ezh" [ɛʒ] (but also sometimes "yogh"). It was often used in Old Irish and Old English manuscripts.
/dʒ/ is an affricate consonant; it can't last long. /ʒ/ is a fricative consonant; this means it is possible to make it sound for a long time: /ʒʒʒ/. However, in normal speech /ʒ/ has a length similar to other consonants.
To make the /ʒ/ sound:
To make /ʒ/, place the tip of your tongue at the front of the top of your mouth, behind where the /s/ is produced. Vibrate your vocal cords as you push air between the top of your mouth and the tip of your tongue.
The “ng” sound, or /ŋ/ sound, is a voiced nasal consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching the soft palate. The air flows out of the nose. Don't release your tongue when you pronounce the g.
Nguyễn (chữ Hán: 阮; sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname among Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen.
The modern Filipino alphabet is made up of 28 letters, which includes the entire 26-letter set of the ISO basic Latin alphabet, the Spanish Ñ, and the Ng.
Englisċ, from which the word English is derived, means 'pertaining to the Angles'. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes who settled in many parts of Britain in the 5th century. By the 9th century, all speakers of Old English, including those who claimed Saxon or Jutish ancestry, could be referred to as Englisċ.
/ʧ/ is unvoiced because both /t/ and /ʃ/ are unvoiced. /ʤ/ is made of /d/ and /z/.