Non-Chinese speakers not hearing word endings?

[陳德聰]

My friend from 山西 also does the -an to -a(nasal) thing, but isn't the 事件 in that clip exactly what OP was describing? I mean, I know that he says 事件, but I think if asked to write the pinyin for the word if I didn't know it, I might have trouble figuring out whether it is 'jie' or 'jian', since the vowel is the same and the [n] is usually not released.

[gato]

In that recording, I think the first Wǔhàn sounds correct, and the second one sounds incorrect (almost like you are saying Wǔhài).

Agree.

[yeut]

imron

there are native speakers who don't differentiate clearly between 'n' and 'ng'

I agree from personnal experience.

BTW, xiaojiang, the word you want is enunciate not annunciate.

[xiaojiang216]

Ahaha thank you, yeut, for the correction, and to everyone for the feedback on a bad habit!

[Takeshi]

I thought this was normal too. I don't think I usually do it myself though, but I'm not the best person to ask.

I'm sure I do it in my name though, but this might be a different case. My name is Gan Yi 甘毅, and I just nasalize the n on the end of the "Gan" without letting my tongue touch the top of my mouth. I've never had problems, and I'm pretty sure other people pronounce my name in this way too. But this might be because the next syllable starts with a y.

[xiaojiang216]

Takeshi - I did the same thing when I read your name to myself out loud. Interesting!