It's not that hard to glide from the /m/ to the /n/ without an intervening vowel or anything before the /m/, it is just unfamiliar to anglophones. The Russian

It's not that hard to glide from the /m/ to the /n/ without an intervening vowel or anything before the /m/, it is just unfamiliar to anglophones. The Russian language has all kinds of bizzare consonant combinations, and they manage to make it work.