My girlfriend speaks Portuguese natively so she helps me with it, but there’s only so much she can do when my body also isn’t accustomed to the nasal vowels, and I’m also an idiot lol
You probably aren’t an idiot, it’s just that language learning is harder than it looks like.
If you have a really hard time with the nasal vowels, worst hypothesis it’s fine to simply pronounce an oral vowel + [ŋ]. You won’t sound native, but it sounds less off than simply omitting the nasalisation or using [m] or [n] instead.
Watch out for the vowel height of /ã/; depending on the dialect it’s between [ɐ̃] and [ə̃], but it’s certainly not [ã].
That’s actually pretty accurate lmao
My girlfriend speaks Portuguese natively so she helps me with it, but there’s only so much she can do when my body also isn’t accustomed to the nasal vowels, and I’m also an idiot lol
You probably aren’t an idiot, it’s just that language learning is harder than it looks like.
If you have a really hard time with the nasal vowels, worst hypothesis it’s fine to simply pronounce an oral vowel + [ŋ]. You won’t sound native, but it sounds less off than simply omitting the nasalisation or using [m] or [n] instead.
Watch out for the vowel height of /ã/; depending on the dialect it’s between [ɐ̃] and [ə̃], but it’s certainly not [ã].
Nasals are easy, just raise your hands, position two fingers around your nose, and press it shut.
It’s a bit tiring but exactly the same results as closing the air passage between your nose and throat.