Yet there's no problem for a Japanese person to say 'n' without trailing into a connected vowel sound, and even using it as its own syllable. Just not with any

Yet there's no problem for a Japanese person to say 'n' without trailing into a connected vowel sound, and even using it as its own syllable. Just not with any other consonant. This confuses my gaijin brain. (Also, the first half of "b" is "m'". :-P)