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Thursday, August 5, 2010

HIRAGANA WRITING! (Particles)

Hiragana Writing (Particles)

Particles は、へ、を
Ha, He & O





"を" actually has two pronunciations!!

It pronounce を as 'wo', contradicting what is said in most textbooks. Although the sample size is too small (105 people) to call this finding accurate, there really are native Japanese who pronounce this Hiragana this way. And this phenomenon exists throughout Japan, including Tokyo, so it is not a dialect preference.

I, however, recommending learners to 'stick with' the textbook pronunciation of 'o', as the majority of the Japanese population pronounce it this way.

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