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Velar consonants are sounds you make with the back of your tongue touching the soft palate, also called the velum. It's the fleshy bit at the back of the roof of your mouth, near your uvula (the little dangly thing).

Production:
Raise the back of your tongue up to touch the velum. Airflow is blocked completely for a moment.

Examples in English:
/k/: This is the voiceless velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "kit" or "cat."
/g/: This is the voiced velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "game" or the "g" in "going."
/ŋ/: This is the velar nasal, the sound at the end of "sing" or "long." Notice how air can flow out your nose while making this sound.

Other interesting facts:
The sound /k/ is actually one of the most common consonant sound across all human languages! Velar consonants can be influenced by nearby vowels. They might move slightly forward in the mouth (called "fronting") before front vowels like /

i:/ or /ɪ/ or move back (called "retraction") before back vowels like /u/ or /ʊ/.

Some practice tongue twisters:
Kate keeps giving up in the morning
My gran’s going to see the king in the Congo
Can a king conquer a sinking kangaroo
Kick the giggling goblins guarding the gold
Kevin clung to the clinging kangaroo

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Target: British Accent 

Velar Consonants 

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* Get familiar with Iranian food and their eating habits
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***Don't hesitate to write me if you have any questions
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غذاهای ایرانی  / Iranian foods

みなさん、ひさしぶりです。
この半年間、私はずっとがんばっていることがあります。
今日は、そのことを話します。

Hi everyone, long time no see!
There is something I’ve been working hard on for the past six months.
Today, I’d like to talk about it.

This episode is JLPT-N3 level.

Please use this audio for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Words☆
日本語能力試験（にほんごのうりょくしけん）：Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)
法律（ほうりつ）：law
繰り返し（くりかえし）：repeat

☆Script for this episode
https://meg-smile.com/40-ganbatteiru-n3-level/