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For those who have gotten this far but haven’t caught on: the ㄹ initial changes the place of articulation of the consonant before it to nasal if it is not a liquid (ㄹ) or nasal (ㅁ, ㄴ, ㅇ).
But in turn, a preceding nasal can also change the ㄹ into an ㄴ!
영리 is pronounced 영니.
Thanks. I knew some sounds get changed, but with the audio in this course it's sometimes hard to tell what I'm hearing . Many times I'm not quite sure if I actually heard what I thought I heard, or just imagining it.
Because the audio here sounds like it's from a text to speech engine and not an actual person
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What do you mean by, "liquid"? Do you mean it is all wet?? Also, what do you mean by, "nasal"? Do you blow it out your nose?
What do you mean by, "liquid"? Do you mean it is all wet??
I was a weird phonetics term to me when I came across it in texts, but its history lies in the way Greeks described some of their sounds—interestingly from “ὑγρός” (moist) which would match up with your guess (“all wet”). In a nutshell, “liquids” are a class of sounds including English ⟨l⟩ and ⟨r⟩.
Also, what do you mean by, "nasal"? Do you blow it out your nose?
Oh yes. Nasal consonants feature airflow through the nose. Hence the name.
女子아이가 伶俐(영리)합니다 It is easy for Japanese and Chinese to learn Korean with hanja.
4 questions in the row with 여자. When I say 'woman' it's wrong and the correct answer is 'girl'. Then on another question when I say 'girl', the correct answer is woman.
why? why? why????? T..T
