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fixed pikachu twitter.com/hardmaru/statu…
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the great thing about katakana is that it allows you to immediately recognize certain loan words, such as マスク which is mask but also Musk so there’s never any confusion especially at a time like this
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Small clip from new phonetics lesson on the nasalized vowel. If you've ever said こんやく as こんにゃく this one's for you!
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A brief breakdown of the Japanese 'z'. This is a fun one—once you become aware of the word-initial [dz] sound, you'll start hearing it all the time.
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The sometimes but not always nasal Japanese G (鼻濁音).
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Why they're said the same way
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