Materials for Wasabi Japanese Pronunciation Lessons

The Most Effective Japanese Pronunciation Lessons

Material Information

If you would like to utilize your mobile devices or hear them off-line, you can download them via the following URL. Additionally, we have labeled the audio files as follows: “vowels” as “V”, “consonants” as ”C”, and “exceptional sounds” as “E”. For example, if you would like to hear the audio for い, please use No. V02.

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Program Table of Japanese Pronunciation Lessons

Japanese Vowels

1. [a] あ
2. [i] い
3. [u] う
4. [e] え
5. [o] お

Japanese Consonants

1. [k] [g] か き く け こ、が ぎ ぐ げ ご
2. [s] [z] さ す せ そ、ざ ず ぜ ぞ
3. [ɕ] [ʑ] し、じ
4. [t] [d] た て と、だ で ど
5. [tɕ] ち
6. [ts] つ 
7. [n] な ぬ ね の
8. [ɲ] に
9. [h] は へ ほ
10. [ç] ひ
11. [ɸ] ふ
12. [b] [p] ば び ぶ べ ぼ、ぱ ぴ ぷ ぺ ぽ
13. [m] ま み む め も
14. [j] や ゆ よ
15. [ɾ] ら り る れ ろ
16. [w] わ 

Japanese Exceptional Sounds

1. [m] [ŋ] [N] [n] ん
2. [k^j] [g^j] きゃ きゅ きょ、ぎゃ ぎゅ ぎょ
3. [b^j] [p^j] びゃ びゅ びょ、ぴゃ ぴゅ ぴょ
4. [m^j] みゃ みゅ みょ
5. [ɾ ^j] りゃ りゅ りょ
6. っ、－、ん

Note

We have adopted the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in our Japanese pronunciation lessons. Some of the symbols such as [ɕ] and [ɸ] are probably unfamiliar with learners. Thus, we have clarified them by corresponding to roman letters in each page like this; “[ɕ] representing the sound of the roman letter /sh/”. Similarly, in the following table, [] shows the IPA and // shows roman letters. It’s read from top to bottom and right to left.

*We divided our pronunciation lessons based on how your tongue and mouth are moved. ぢ, づ and を are omitted because they are the same movement as じ, ず and お respectively.

*For the same reason as above, しゃ, じゃ, ちゃ, にゃ, and ひゃ line are omitted because they are the same movement as し, じ, ち, に and ひ respectively.

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