import nltk
from nltk.util import ngrams
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize

# Download required NLTK data files
nltk.download('punkt')

def generate_ngrams(text, n):
    # Tokenize the text into words
    tokens = word_tokenize(text)
    
    # Generate n-grams
    n_grams = ngrams(tokens, n)
    
    return list(n_grams)

# Example text
text = "Natural language processing with Python is fun and educational."

# Generate bigrams (n=2)
bigrams = generate_ngrams(text, 2)
print("Bigrams:", bigrams)