{"id":411,"date":"2011-09-29T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2011-10-13T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T03:50:54","slug":"japanese-from-scratch-1-1-6-yw-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/japanese-from-scratch-1-1-6-yw-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese from Scratch 1.1.6 \u2013 y\/w sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re new to this series, check out my previous posts under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/category\/japanese-from-scratch\/\">&#8220;Japanese from Scratch<\/a>&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>In this lesson, we will learn how to read and write the remaining Hiragana characters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uy5bT6dAhnY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Sounds to watch for<\/h2>\n<p>The \/r\/ sound is notoriously difficult for English speakers. It is a hard sound between &#8220;r&#8221; and &#8220;l&#8221;. You want to make sure that you flick your tongue against the roof of your mouth, similar to how Spanish speakers roll their r&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The last few sounds don&#8217;t really follow the convention that we&#8217;re used to. There is no &#8220;yi&#8221;, &#8220;ye&#8221;, &#8220;wi&#8221;, &#8220;wu&#8221;, or &#8220;we&#8221; sounds.* And while \u300c\u3092\u300d technically is a &#8220;wo&#8221; sound, it sounds exactly the same as &#8220;o&#8221; \uff08\u304a\uff09 in practice. As you&#8217;ll later learn, \u300c\u3092\u300d is only used for grammatical purposes and not as part of regular words. Therefore, it will not show up in the reading practice below.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as the only consonant-only sound, \u300c\u3093\u300d is an curious anomaly. It comes after another sound to add a &#8220;n&#8221; or &#8220;m&#8221; consonant sound. I find that if you always pronounce it as &#8220;n&#8221;, nobody really notices the difference.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading Practice<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of other vocab you should read over for some simple reading practice. Once again, don&#8217;t worry about memorizing the definitions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u305d\u3089 &#8211; sky<\/li>\n<li>\u3084\u307e &#8211; mountain<\/li>\n<li>\u3057\u308d &#8211; white<\/li>\n<li>\u3086\u304d &#8211; snow<\/li>\n<li>\u3088\u308b &#8211; night<\/li>\n<li>\u308a\u3059 &#8211; squirrel<\/li>\n<li>\u304a\u3075\u308d &#8211; bath<\/li>\n<li>\u308f\u305f\u3057 &#8211; me, myself, I<\/li>\n<li>\u3055\u3093 &#8211; three<\/li>\n<li>\u3088\u3093 &#8211; four<\/li>\n<li>\u3075\u3068\u3093 &#8211; futon<\/li>\n<li>\u3086\u3081 &#8211; dream<\/li>\n<li>\u307f\u3089\u3044 &#8211; future<\/li>\n<li>\u3080\u308a &#8211; impossible<\/li>\n<li>\u307f\u308b &#8211; to see<\/li>\n<li>\u308c\u3093\u3053\u3093 &#8211; lotus root (used in Japanese cooking)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Congratulations, you&#8217;ve learned all of Hiragana! We&#8217;re almost done with all the sounds in Japanese. Review the complete Hiragana chart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/complete\/hiragana\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nMy Youtube channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/taekimjapanese\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/taekimjapanese<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Classical Japanese does have &#8220;wi&#8221; \uff08\u3090\uff09 and &#8220;we&#8221; \uff08\u3091\uff09 but they are no longer used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re new to this series, check out my previous posts under the &#8220;Japanese from Scratch&#8221; category. In this lesson, we will learn how to read and write the remaining Hiragana characters. Sounds to watch for The \/r\/ sound is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/japanese-from-scratch-1-1-6-yw-sounds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginner","category-japanese-from-scratch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}