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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "바다" in Korean?
ba-da. Two plain stops and two identical open vowels, with the second consonant fully voiced between them.
bada
Two beats over matching vowels. Both consonants come from the plain series, so nothing in the word is aspirated or tensed, and the whole thing should sound soft and even.
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여름에는 바다에 가요.
Yeoreumeneun badae gayo.
In summer we go to the sea.
Listen: 여름에는 바다에 가요.
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여름에는 바다에 가요 attaches 에 to a vowel-final noun, so the phrase runs ba-da-e with three open syllables in a row. The 여름에는 in front moves its ㅁ into the particle, giving yeo-reu-me-neun.
Where English speakers slip
Over-voicing the initial ㅂ into a full English b is the first error and aspirating the ㄷ into 'ba-ta' is the second -- one overshoots and the other undershoots the same series. Reducing the final vowel is the third, since both ㅏ vowels are fully open and equal in length.