{"id":426,"date":"2011-10-08T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-10-08T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:51:33","slug":"japanese-from-scratch-1-1-7-voiced-sounds-in-hiragana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/japanese-from-scratch-1-1-7-voiced-sounds-in-hiragana\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese from Scratch 1.1.7 &#8211; Voiced sounds in Hiragana"},"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>So actually, while we learned all the Hiragana characters, there&#8217;s still more sounds to be learned using the same Hiragana characters we&#8217;ve already learned. In this lesson, we&#8217;re going to be learning the voiced consonants, which are indicated by two small lines or circle (only for \/p\/ sounds) in the upper-right of the character. There are five voiced consonant sounds: \/g\/, \/z\/, \/d\/, \/b\/, and \/p\/.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Am-n2HVwVG4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On computers or other digital displays, a small font can make it hard to distinguish between the lines and small circle (ex: \u300c\u3070\uff0f\u3071\u300d) so make sure to increase the font if you&#8217;re having trouble seeing the circle. You can easily do this in your browser by using the &#8220;Zoom&#8221; functionality in the &#8220;View&#8221; menu.<\/p>\n<h2>Sounds to watch for<\/h2>\n<p>Learning to read and write these sounds is not very hard since you&#8217;ve already learned the characters. The pronunciations are pretty much what you would expect except for: \u300c\u3058\u300d and \u300c\u3062\u300d. Both are pronounced &#8220;ji&#8221;. \u300c\u3062\u300d is very rarely used and normally only in voiced Kanji readings which we will learn about later so you&#8217;ll see \u300c\u3058\u300d more often than not for &#8220;ji&#8221;. \u300c\u3065\u300d is also usually only used as a voiced Kanji reading of \u300c\u3064\u300d. It sounds almost identical to \u300c\u305a\u300d except for a slight press of the tongue to the roof of your mouth for a faint &#8220;d&#8221; sound at the beginning. It should sound like &#8220;dzu&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading Practice<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of random vocabulary you should read over for some simple reading practice. Once again, don&#8217;t worry about memorizing the definitions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u3054 &#8211; five<\/li>\n<li>\u3075\u3058\u3055\u3093 &#8211; Mt. Fuji<\/li>\n<li>\u306f\u306a\u3062 &#8211; nosebleed<\/li>\n<li>\u3072\u3065\u3051 &#8211; (calendar) date<\/li>\n<li>\u306b\u304e\u308a\u305a\u3057 &#8211; nigiri sushi<\/li>\n<li>\u3073\u3058\u3093 &#8211; beautiful person<\/li>\n<li>\u3068\u3082\u3060\u3061 &#8211; friend<\/li>\n<li>\u3056\u3076\u3068\u3093 &#8211; cushion<\/li>\n<li>\u3071\u3093 &#8211; bread<\/li>\n<li>\u3058\u304b\u3093 &#8211; time<\/li>\n<li>\u304a\u3093\u3069 &#8211; temperature<\/li>\n<li>\u3064\u304e &#8211; next<\/li>\n<li>\u304b\u3070\u3093 &#8211; bag<\/li>\n<li>\u304a\u3093\u304c\u304f &#8211; music<\/li>\n<li>\u3074\u3042\u306e &#8211; piano<\/li>\n<li>\u3046\u3067 &#8211; arm<\/li>\n<li>\u304a\u3073 &#8211; belt<\/li>\n<li>\u304b\u3050 &#8211; furniture<\/li>\n<li>\u3061\u305a &#8211; map<\/li>\n<li>\u3077\u308a\u3093 &#8211; pudding<\/li>\n<li>\u304b\u305e\u304f &#8211; family<\/li>\n<li>\u307f\u305a &#8211; water<\/li>\n<li>\u304a\u307a\u3089 &#8211; opera<\/li>\n<li>\u304b\u305c &#8211; wind<\/li>\n<li>\u304b\u3052 &#8211; shadow<\/li>\n<li>\u307c\u304f &#8211; me;myself;I (masculine)<\/li>\n<li>\u3044\u3079\u3093\u3068 &#8211; event<\/li>\n<li>\u3070\u308c\u3093\u305f\u3044\u3093 &#8211; valentine<\/li>\n<li>\u307d\u3051\u3082\u3093 &#8211; Pokemon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Also check out my page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/complete\/more_sounds\">Hiragana<\/a>.<br \/>\nMy Youtube channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/taekimjapanese\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/taekimjapanese<\/a><\/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. So actually, while we learned all the Hiragana characters, there&#8217;s still more sounds to be learned using the same Hiragana characters we&#8217;ve already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/japanese-from-scratch-1-1-7-voiced-sounds-in-hiragana\/\">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-426","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\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}