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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "하고" in Korean?
ha-go. A gentle ㅎ, then a ㄱ that voices into a genuine g because it sits between two vowels.
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Two evenly timed blocks hanging off the noun in front. This is the colloquial 'and' or 'with' that attaches straight to a noun, so the noun-plus-particle sequence is spoken as a single prosodic word with no internal break.
Listen: 하고
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Hear it in a sentence
친구하고 밥을 먹어요.
Chinguhago babeul meogeoyo.
I eat with my friend.
Listen: 친구하고 밥을 먹어요.
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친구하고 밥을 먹어요 runs 하고 straight out of 친구 without a seam, and then two resyllabifications follow in quick succession: 밥을 becomes ba-beul as the ㅂ moves into the particle and voices, and 먹어요 becomes meo-geo-yo as the ㄱ does the same thing.
Where English speakers slip
Aspirating the ㄱ into 'ha-ko' is the frequent error, and it makes the particle sound like a separate stressed word. Between vowels the plain consonant genuinely voices. Over-blowing the ㅎ is the other habit; Korean's is soft enough that a heavy English h immediately marks the syllable as foreign.