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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "친해지다" in Korean?
chin-hae-ji-da. An aspirated ㅊ at the front, a ㅎ that weakens after the nasal, and two soft consonants after it.
chinhaejida
Four beats. The effort drops steadily across the word -- a strong aspirate, then a weakened h, then two fully voiced consonants -- so it tapers off without ever getting quieter.
Listen: 친해지다
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Hear it in a sentence
우리는 금방 친해졌어요.
Urineun geumbang chinhaejyeosseoyo.
We became friends quickly.
Listen: 우리는 금방 친해졌어요.
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우리는 금방 친해졌어요 puts it in the past tense, and 친해졌어요 drops the y-glide of 졌 while resyllabifying the ㅆ, giving chin-hae-jeo-sseo-yo.
Where English speakers slip
Levelling the ㅊ and the ㅈ is the main error, since they differ only in aspiration and English collapses that contrast. The other is giving the ㅎ full force, when between a nasal and a vowel it should be barely audible.