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Little questions about words with k's - 09-03-2009, 07:25 PM

My friend is learning Japanese and I've been helping her with some pretty basic stuff. Her boyfriend said that k's should sound somewhere between a k and a g. I've never heard of that and i've been studying for like 2-3 years now, so I was wondering if this is true.
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09-03-2009, 07:31 PM

I've never heard anyone say that before...
K's and G's sound almost Identical anyways.
try saying か and が back to back. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.
I would just stick with a normal k sound, but I'm no expert.
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I've never heard anyone say that before...
K's and G's sound almost Identical anyways.
try saying か and が back to back. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.
I would just stick with a normal k sound, but I'm no expert.
This is why I'm confused lol. I couldn't give her a clear answer when she asked lol. I basically said "maybe he means like ga and ka sound similar".
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09-03-2009, 07:38 PM

yeah. I honestly have no idea what that guy is talking about lol.
I listen to a lot of Japanese podcasts and stuff. And all the K's sound like K's to me....

you sure he didn't mean r's or something?
cause R sounds are kinda a mix between R's and L's as you probably know.
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09-03-2009, 09:44 PM

That's the same thing I said to her! I said are you sure he wasn't talking about r's because I know r's kind of are between an r sound and an l.

She said no. The example was Konnichiwa.

Now! the only thing I can think of is where the "kon" part of the sentence originates in the mouth, which is kind of in the back of throat the same where a g would if you were to say gonnichiwa.
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09-04-2009, 03:27 AM

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I've never heard anyone say that before...
K's and G's sound almost Identical anyways.
try saying か and が back to back. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.
I would just stick with a normal k sound, but I'm no expert.
I have no idea what you're talking about. They sound nothing the same. What is your native language? That could explain your deficiency.
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09-04-2009, 03:44 AM

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My friend is learning Japanese and I've been helping her with some pretty basic stuff. Her boyfriend said that k's should sound somewhere between a k and a g. I've never heard of that and i've been studying for like 2-3 years now, so I was wondering if this is true.
That's Korean. I know; I've learned it.

Ignore her boyfriend. There's is a difference between a か and a が. That's why the ten ten is there. if they were the same... well, I think you get it.


光る物全て金ならず。
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09-04-2009, 05:43 AM

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Her boyfriend said that k's should sound somewhere between a k and a g.
What do you mean by "between a k and a g"? In English. In Russian?

You can always look at the Voice Onset Time chart and get some basic grasp.

Voice onset time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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09-04-2009, 04:08 PM

I think that is spoken in Tohoku area.
But "Gonnichiwa" is not used even in Tohoku because this dialect is used when it is not initial letter.
Also sometime たちつてと (ta-chi-tsu-te-to) change to だぢづでど(da-ji-dzu-de-do).

行く(iku) → 行ぐ(igu)
書く(kaku) → 書ぐ(kagu)
おとこ(otoko) → おどご(odogo)
note; Generally these usages are not used in writing.

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I think that is spoken in Tohoku area.
But "Gonnichiwa" is not used even in Tohoku because this dialect is used when it is not initial letter.
Also sometime たちつてと (ta-chi-tsu-te-to) change to だぢづでど(da-ji-dzu-de-do).

行く(iku) → 行ぐ(igu)
書く(kaku) → 書ぐ(kagu)
おとこ(otoko) → おどご(odogo)
note; Generally these usages are not used in writing.

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Thank you very much.
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