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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Why does letter B/V(ㅂ) sound like "K" in this Korean song "비날론 삼천리"?
This is a famous Korean song "비날론 삼천리 3000 miles of Vinalon" in China, singing about the Vinalon fabrics industry.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ut421T78W
Vinalon(Vinylon) is ...
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Question about Batchim - when is a consonant pronounced as a double consonant?
I have learned that when ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅂ,ㅅ,ㅈ, ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅍ,ㅊ are the 받침, the following consonant becomes a double consonant (if possible).
E.g 받다 –> 받따
Does this apply with ㄹ, ㄴ, ㅁ, ㅇ as well?
E.g I hear people ...
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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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KOREAN
she
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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.
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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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