Pronunciation Part 3 - From ま to ん

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Pronunciation Part 3 - From ま to ん

In this lesson of pronunciation, you will learn to pronounce another the last sixteen characters of the basic Hiragana set. You will learn some more vocabulary at the same time.

Each character is read together with an example. Start listening, and follow the table from left to right, one row at a time.

ま	み	む	め	も
まめ	みかん	むし	めがね	もも
ma / mame	mi / mikan	mu / mushi	me / megane	mo / momo
Bean	Mandarin	Insect	Glasses	Peach


や		ゆ		よ
やま		ゆき		よる
ya / yama		yu / yuki		yo / yoru
Mountain		Snow		Evening, Night


ら	り	る	れ	ろ
らいおん*	りんご	るび *	れもん*	ろけっと *
ra / raion	ri / ringo	ru / rubi	re / remon	ro / roketto
Lion	Apple	Ruby	Lemon	Rocket


わ				を
わさび				りんごをたべる
wa / wasabi				o / ringo o taberu
Japanese horse raddish				(to) eat (an) apple
ん
ぱん
n / pan
Bread

Please note that the words marked with * are usually written using katakana. We have written them in hiragana here to make it easier for you to learn a complete set of hiragana characters.

Comments (13)

Arigato!!! This helps so much!!!
I think I might Actually make it now

A rule I read for ん is pronounced like m sound.

It happens when ん come before m, b, or p.
Examples:
konbanwa - こんばんは = Good evening
tenpura - てんぷら　天ぷら = battered fried vegtable/meat
genmai - げんまい　玄米　= unmilled rice

Thanks tony!

Probably the closest one could get in sound would be "meimii" (めいみい in hiragana, メイミー in katakana), but a nihonjin might pronounce it "meemii" instead (めえみい in hiragana, メーミー in katakana).

So what would my name be in Japanese?
Mamie = May+Me

Anyone know?

Arigato!

I've never tried it, but my brother did. He said it was so hot he nearly vomitted. Ewww... :shock:

i think it's gonna take time to learn all of these properly

this helped so much!!!
:mrgreen:

I love Japanese!

:shock: :? 8-) :cry: :D :) lol Japanese rules

Thank-you!

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