This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of the Affricates and Nasal sounds. They are both produced with total obstruction of the air passage. However, affricate sounds are produced by the gradual release of the airstream from the oral cavity, while nasal sounds are produced from the nasal cavity. There are 2 affricates and 3 nasal sounds in phonetics and each is explained with examples of the words that contain each sound. This video also explains the exceptions and misconceptions to better understand the peculiarity of each sound.

The lesson objective includes:
- Meaning of affricate sounds and nasal sounds
- How to articulate each of the sounds
- How to describe each of the sounds
- The letters of the English alphabet that can represent each sound
- How to transcribe words