In this lesson you will learn the pronunciation of the last fifteen sounds of Japanese, from gya to pyo.
This lesson covers fifteen more youon sounds. These youon sounds are made of the modified sounds, gi, ji, ji, hi, bi and pi, that are changed to end with either ya, yu or yo. The modification is written in hiragana with a small character after the main character.
Note that there is no difference in the pronounciation between the ones based on ji, じ,and ji, ぢ.
Start listening, and follow the table from left to right, one row at a time.
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10:38 pm on October 12th, 2010
You will rarely run into ぢゃ、ぢゅ or ぢょ, so you will be quite safe in forgetting all about them until you do. Even ぢ by itself does not occur very often. When it does, it is usually in a compound word in which the second part would normally be pronounced by itself with a ち, but the sound changes in combination with the other word. For example, ち (血) is blood, and はなぢ (鼻血) is a nosebleed. Another example is the verb ちぢむ (縮む), meaning “to shrink (in size).” Here the “ji” sound is spelled ぢ because of the combination with the ち sound. In both these cases, you would normally spell the words with kanji, not with hiragana.
9:57 pm on October 12th, 2010
Ahhh!! The double ja ju jo’s with the different characters will confuse me! Can anyone give me an example of where you would use one versus the other?