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Japanese Audio Request

Peter
98 Characters / 5 Recordings / 3 Comments

つめ
あめ
めんこ

ぬま
いぬ
あけぬ

ろく
いろ
ろんこく

はる
さる
ぬるい

わに
あわ
わたる

ほれ
ぬれた
のれん

まね
よね
ねつ

りす
すね
すら

むり
むつ
こむ

Recordings

Comments

Peter
May 30, 2011

I just noticed something. For "わに" it sounds like you said "にわ". Is this a mistake or am I hearing it incorrectly?

ryujiro
May 30, 2011

Sorry I made a mistake to pronounce it.
For Japanese it is unusual to read the word written only in "hiragana".
For example, ”わに”if it means an alligator, it is pronounced as wani, ”にわ”if it means a garden , it is pronounced as niwa.
It is very hard for japanese to imagine two letters word correctly.
Anyway I want to apologize it again.

Peter
May 30, 2011

Thank you for putting up a second recording!

I am getting these from a book that teaches the kana, but the book doesn't tell me what these words mean. Mostly I am just trying to learn the sounds for all of the kana as I am very new to Japanese.

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