The top ten mistakes that foreign speakers make #5: ING endings

Many foreign speakers have trouble with word endings.  The “ING” ending is commonly used.  I hear foreign speakers pronounce the “ING” as:  “INK”, “IN”, “ENG”, “EENG” or “IN GA”.

When mispronounced, the word sing would sound like sink, sin, seng or sin ga (which might be interpreted as singer).  When “ING” is added to a verb to change the tense, the word thinking would sound like thinkin or thinkeeng.

To correct this error, do these things:

make the vowel short
make the NG one sound
say NG not N.  Do this by touching the tip of the tongue to the back of the bottom, front teeth; NOT the top teeth.

Good luck!  People will notice a difference.