Questions tagged [pronunciation]
This tag is for questions about the sounds, intonation, and stress of how words are uttered or produced.
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How do you pronounce 스퀄?
A good answer will be one of the following:
a link to an internet video.
a link to an audio file on the Wikipedia commons.
a transliteration written in international phonetic alphabet notation.
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What is a list of Korean words that contain the "UR" sound from the English word "URN"? What is the hangul symbol or glyph for the R-Colored Vowel?
What are examples of common Korean words that contain an "urrrr" sound or an "errr" sound?
The following is a table of English words that contain the R-Colored Vowel
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How do koreans pronounce 페이펄?
The word 페이펄 is a transliteration of the English word "paper".
Are there any audio recordings on youtube.com or the wikimedia commons of someone pronouncing the transliteration 페이펄?
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What letter of the korean alphabet is closest to representing an open mid back rounded vowel? ɔ
What letter of the korean alphabet is closest to representing an open mid back rounded vowel?The open mid back rounded vowel is written as ɔ in the international phonetic alphabet.
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On what website can I find an audio recording of the Korean word 양치류?
I have searched for a youtube video titled, "How to pronounce 양치류".
At the time of my writing, I cannot find a pronunciation video on youtube.
Sometimes, wiktionary.org has NO audio ...
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What Korean words have an "S" sound in them? What are example of words, in the Korean language, that contain the voiceless alveolar sibilant?
Many words in the English language contain a sound known as the voiceless alveolar sibilant
Examples of English words beginning with the voiceless alveolar sibilant are shown below:
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Is there a korean letter for the "Uh" in "Umbrella"? Alternatively worded, what is the hangul glyph for the open-mid back unrounded vowel?
Many English words contain the "uh" sound found in the word "umbrella".
That is, many English words contain the open-mid back unrounded vowel.
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What is the glyph in hangul that best represents the close front unrounded vowel (the "ee" in "bee" or "see")?
What is the glyph in hangul that best represents the close front unrounded vowel?
In the English language, the close front unrounded vowel is usually written as "EE"
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What is an English transliteration for for Korean word for "squash" or "zuchinni"?
"squash" and "zucchini" are English words.
Please consider the following Korean words...
호박
호박
애호박
When we use English writing to record Korean sounds, do we write "H-AW-N-...
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What is the glyph in hangul for the open-mid front unrounded vowel (The "EH" sound in the English "echo" and English "Elk")?
What is the glyph in hangul for the open-mid front un-rounded vowel ?
The open-mid front un-rounded vowel is the same as the "EH" sound in the English language.
There is an "EH" ...
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Is -(으)ㄹ the only morpheme that always tensifies the following consonant?
I'm wondering if there's a list of morphemes that always tensify the following consonant (outside of the phenomenon of compound tensing), or if the irrealis adnominal suffix -(으)ㄹ is the only such ...
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Is there any difference in pronunciation between 사다 and 싸다?
I can only hear the difference between these 2 words when I hear the word 비싸다, but apart from that, are there any other ways to tell 사 and 싸 apart? And is doing that even necessary?
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Conversion to Japanese onyomi
I recently started learning Japanese, and noticed that one may find some pronunciation similarities between mandarin, onyomi Japanese, and Korean.
Here are a few examples:
教室:きょうしつ:교실
秘密:ひみつ:비밀
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라떼 말이야 - meaning?
I encountered the phrase 라떼 말이야 la-tte mal-iy-a, which I might have figured as Latte is the word, but which Google and Bing translate as I mean latte (Google)/lattes (Bing). Papago momentarily shows I’...
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Is the n (ㄴ) pronounced in -ㅂ니다 endings?
I'm just beginning to learn Korean, and, in the limited audio I'm hearing of pronunciations of -ㅂ니다 , I can't tell whether the /n/ sound is or should be pronounced. I'd like to learn to pronounce as ...
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Naver Dictionary, Two different Pronunciations
What do these two different pronunciations mean in Naver? I see them in a lot of words. My teacher and textbook use the second one. 'we-gug'
https://korean.dict.naver.com/koendict/#/search?query=%EC%...
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Are Korean tense stops pre-glottalized?
It is commonly said that the 예사소리 vs 된소리 vs 거센소리 distinction of Korean stops are by VOT. But what about the time before the stop?
I was playing with Synthesizer V (abbr. SynthV), a software that ...
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"Admitted" pronunciations for letters whose genuine pronunciation is too hard for a learner
Even though I've asked a similar question regarding phonetics, here's my second go at it.
I've listened to a few audio samples, consisting of textbook dialogues spoken aloud, which allowed me to ...
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Do these consonants admit an alternative pronunciation?
Since this question has to do with phonetics, I'll use IPA symbols to represent the sounds I want to describe.
I know that (if I am not mistaken):
ㄸ is an explicit [t] sound;
ㅌ is [th], i.e. a 't' ...
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Is there a j sound in 맞네요?
I saw a question on here about that word and there being no t sound which i understood, but i put it in to my translator app, which is pretty accurate and it gave me the pronunciation of "manneyo&...
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What is the Korean Homophonic Group?
Equivalent question: What Korean letters won't equal 1?
From: the homophonic group: a mathematical diversion
→ This is an exercise from Michael Artin's Algebra on, well, abstract algebra. In this ...
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육, 륙 or 뉵 for number 6?
I have a doubt concerning how to properly write the digit 6 in hangeul. As far as I understood, its pronunciation varies between 육 and 뉵, but it's never written 뉵.
I saw an extract from an older ...
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Thank you for your Patience to a Teacher
I have a Korean teacher that is very nice and Patient with me especially, as I'm trying to learn. How do I say, "Thank you for your Patience"
I read this, but this seems more like a ...
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Giyeok ㄱ at bottom of syllable pronounced as th
Someone told me that ㄱ giyeok at the bottom end of syllable is pronounced as th sound. Is this true?
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Why is ㅈ realized differently in 맞아요 than ㅊ in 꽃아니요?
I am completely new to Korean, so this question might just be the result of me hearing sounds incorrectly.
I watched FluentForever’s videos on pronunciation and spelling rules to get a first approach ...
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Why is 이해합니다 pronounced as ihaehamnida?
이해합니까 looks like it should should be pronounced as
ihaehabnida
but it's actually
ihaehamnida
What rule causes the ㅂ in 합 to change from a b sound to an m sound?
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Why does Wikipedia and Wiktionary list [mʷəː] as the pronunciation for 뭐?
I've noticed that some articles on Wikipedia and Wiktionary on Korean claim that the Korean word 뭐 is transcribed as [mwɘ(ː)] in IPA, with [ɘ] being the IPA symbol for the close-mid central unrounded ...
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Is there a pronunciation exercise for ㄹ. (I am a French native speaker)
I understand the general pronunciation rules for the consonant ㄹ but my problem is that I'm not able to pronounce the Korean ㄹ when it should be between the American R and L.
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why does 좋아하다 pronounce as 조아하다?
I am a beginner, and with my current knowledge, when there is ㅇ after the previous final consonant, the previous final consonant combines with the vowel after ㅇ to pronounce.
So, 좋아하다 is supposed to ...
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Is syllabic L present in Korean?
I'm a native Korean speaker. I noticed that, whenever I say "너를 나를", my tongue directly releases from the onset ㄹ to the coda ㄹ, eliminating the ㅡ in-between. To transcribe in IPA, /ɾɯl/ ...
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How to distinguish the sounds of the two vowels in Korean ᅭ ᅲ?
How to distinguish the sounds of the two vowels in Korean ᅭ ᅲ?
Am I correct to make the following comparison in American English:
ㅛ is the same as yo-yo;
ㅠ is the same as "book" where 'b' ...
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How is the phrase 무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다 in Squid Game pronounced causally versus formally?
I found the pronunciation of 무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다 written in one article as
mugunghwa kkochi piotsseumnida
Google Translate showed it as
mugunghwa kkoch-i pieossseubnida
Is it pronounced like
moo goo hwa ...
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I am a native French speaker and I have enormous issue to pronounce ㅏ VS ㅓ
I just started 2 weeks ago to learn Korean language (first on Duolingo then I bought a book) and I cannot figure out how to pronounce properly the vowel ㅓ which should be [uh, eo] like the "a&...
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Are there factors other than VOT that distinguish the three types of Korean stops?
I mean 예사소리 (plain), 된소리 (tense), and 거센소리 (aspirated) by "the three types", in regard of voiceless stops, of course.
As for voice onset time (VOT), it is well-known that 된소리 (ㄲ,ㄸ,ㅃ,ㅉ) has ...
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Where can I find the official “Hangul orthography” and “rules on pronunciations?”
Where can I find the official “Hangul orthography and rules on pronunciations?”
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Pronunciation of ㄷ(ㅅ, ㅈ, ㅌ, ㅊ, ㅆ, ㅉ) before ㄱ
I can't find information about right pronunciation of patchim ㄷ(ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅈ, ㅉ, ㅌ, ㅊ) before ㄱ. From what I can hear ㄷ should be silent. But I am not sure about it.
For example in words like 웃겨 I hear 우껴 ...
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the sound change following ㄹ
According to Naver dictionary,
볼거리 [볼꺼리] vs 갈기다 [갈기다]
일당 [일땅] vs 일다 [일:다] (For this pair, I guess it is because 일 in the second one is long. If that is true, since many Koreans do not differentiate ...
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How is the polite particle 요 pronounced?
To me it sounds more like 여 (wider mouth) when used at the end of words, while standalone or mid-word 요 is pronounced with a more closed mouth.
Example
https://soundcloud.com/talktomeinkorean/ttmik-...
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About the pronunciation of 시
Is the pronunciation of 시 same as "x" as in Mandarin ? It's sound similar to me, but I'm not sure if they are exactly the same. Do they have the same tongue position and mouth shape, having ...
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Words like 호랑이/고양이/아지랭이 vs. words like 호박잎/콩잎/부엌일, what is the difference regarding the consonant(s) before the final "ㅣ"?
It all started with this song titled 호박잎 (starts at 11:02 in the video, lyrics here) on Youtube, and I noticed that the singer's pronunciation of 호박잎 is different from the supposed "standard"...
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What is the correct pronunciation of 호박잎?
Is it /호방닙/ or /호방깁?/ I think it is the first one because of there is an insertion of ㅅ and ㄴ: 호박+ㅅ+ㄴ+잎, the ㅅ disappears and the ㄱ nasalizes under the influence of ㄴ. But in this children's song ...
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How do you properly pronounce 풀?
As a native English speaker this sound is really hard for me. It's like half an "Pu" sound and half an "ool" sound. The last bit is what trips me up, how do you pronounce that &...
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Particle 로 or 으로 after consonant?
I stumbled upon what seems to be a contradiction in my beginner's course textbook.
The book explains that the particle which indicates direction, "로", must be replaced by its variant "...
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Exact places of articulation of Korean coronal consonants
What are the exact places of articulation of Korean coronal consonants, e.g. ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄸ, ㄹ, ㅅ, ㅆ, ㅌ?
The passive articulators are dental, alveolar, or postalveolar, and the active articulators are apical ...
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Is the ㅆ in 씌 palatalized or not?
The passive form of 쓰다 is 쓰이다, whose contraction is 씌다. 씌 also appears in 씌우다, which is the causative form of 쓰다.
The 표준 발음법 states that ㅢ following a consonant is pronounced as [ㅣ]. That means 씌 is ...
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Why does ㅗ *o* sometimes sound like ㅜ *u*?
When I listen to 오 on Naver Dict (or 오다 or 오늘), it sounds the same as 우. 오 sounds like a [u] sound, not an [o] sound like in Spanish como [komo]. (Click the speech icon with round, not vertical, sound ...
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Pronunciation of syllable 와
In an app I use to learn keorean, I noticed that in the sentence "사과와 바나나", the word '사과'
is pronounced like '사가'(saga in the place of sagwa).
Another instance where I noticed this was in ...
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What are the correct translations and pronunciations for "It's a lot, isn't it?"
I came across this sample for the above phrase; when I tried it on google translate, I got 많지 않나요 ... which might be right, I suppose - it looks close, but Google translate seems off. Obviously in the ...
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How to pronounce -다 in dictionary form?
From what I've learnt, ㄷ is pronounced /t/ at the start of a word or end of a syllable, and /d/ if it's at the start of a syllable. So I am a bit confused as to why the -다 at the end of some verbs (in ...
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