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Konnichi wa, mina san. Good afternoon everyone. Sorry for the missed post this last Wednesday. We just came back from a cross-country trip and I must have scheduled my post for the wrong date. But here it is, just a few days late. I hope you enjoy it!
************ We're nearly done with the hiragana alphabet so I feel that it's time to introduce the Ya, Yu and Yo digraphs (yōon/youon pronounced yo ohn). First of all, when we write these characters, the ya, yu and yo are considerably smaller than the first character. For example kya is a combination of ki and ya. The ki character is written at a normal size but the ya is written much smaller to show that it's a digraph. Now about pronunciation. When we combine ki and ya in the digraph, we don't pronounce the "i" (ee) sound of the ki, just the "k" sound blended with the ya sound: k + ya = kya. This is important because if the ya, yu and yo are written full sized in the word the pronunciation will be totally different and therefore will be an entirely different word. For example, the word きよう pronounced kyō (meaning today) is totally different from the word きよう kiyō pronounced kee yoh (meaning handy or skilled). Let's look at the chart:
How about some words using these new digraph sounds:
(hint the "ō" or "ou" is pronounced like the long "o" sound in the word open)
At this point, it's useful to review the Japanesepod101.com video about the ya, yu and yo digraphs. The digraph section starts at 1:45:
To download this week's free writing practice sheet, please click the link below:
What? Oh, you're right! I only included one practice sheet for this week's sounds. As soon as I get resettled I'll have more for you to practice with.
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Note: Edited on 09/25/2018 to add more vocabulary words for the kyo and kyu sounds and to fix formatting errors and typos.
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