JAPN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Syu, Billion Years, Etiquette In Japan

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Japanese
• Course: JAPN 101
• Professor: Chihiro Williams

Document Summary

Ti (chi) ni hi mi ri: voiced consonants. Tyu (chu) nyu hyu myu ryu gyu ju byu pyu ko so to no ho mo yo ro. N go zo do bo po e ke se te ne he me re ge ze de be pe kyo. Tyo (cho) nyo hyo myo ryo gyo jo byo pyo. When k, s, t, or p is placed one right after the other, it is pronounced without a puff of breath following the consonant. Za-s-shi (za-s-shi): magazine i-p-po-n: one cylinder-like object. N is treated like a full syllable, in terms of length. When the same vowel is placed one right after the other, the pronunciation of the vowel becomes about twice as long as the single vowel. Be sure to hold the sound long enough, because the length of the vowel can change one word to another. cf. o-ba-sa-n: aunt cf. o-ji-sa-n: uncle.