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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "경찰" in Korean?
gyeong-chal. A y-glide onto the flat ㅓ, a held nasal, and then an aspirated ㅊ with a real puff.
gyeongchal
Two beats. A nasal does not tense a following consonant and this one is aspirated regardless, so the seam is completely uneventful and the word sounds exactly as its parts predict.
Listen: 경찰
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Hear it in a sentence
경찰을 불러 주세요.
Gyeongchareul bulleo juseyo.
Please call the police.
Listen: 경찰을 불러 주세요.
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경찰을 불러 주세요 attaches 을, so the ㄹ taps forward and the noun becomes gyeong-cha-reul. Then 불러 gives you a geminate l, since the ㄹ of 불 and the ㄹ of 러 merge into one long lateral.
Where English speakers slip
Putting a g after 경 is the standard nasal error and under-aspirating the ㅊ is the other, and together they produce something that shares little with the Korean. The dark l at the end is the third, and it pulls the open vowel backward.