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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "하지만" in Korean?
ha-ji-man, three light beats. The ㅈ voices into a real j between vowels, and nothing in the word is aspirated or tensed.
hajiman
Equal weight across the three syllables. As a clause connector it usually opens a new intonational phrase, so pitch resets on 하 and drifts down across the word -- but within the word itself nothing is longer or louder than anything else.
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가고 싶어요. 하지만 시간이 없어요.
Gago sipeoyo. Hajiman sigani eopseoyo.
I want to go, but I don't have time.
Listen: 가고 싶어요. 하지만 시간이 없어요.
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가고 싶어요. 하지만 시간이 없어요. gives 하지만 a fresh start after a full stop. What follows is instructive: 없어요 has the double batchim ㅄ, and with a vowel behind it the ㅅ resyllabifies and tenses, producing eop-sseo-yo with an audible double s that the bare word 없다 never shows.
Where English speakers slip
The middle consonant gets over-hardened into 'ha-chi-man' by learners drilled on aspiration who start applying it everywhere. Between vowels ㅈ is soft and voiced. The other habit is stressing the last syllable, ha-ji-MAN, on the model of English 'however' -- Korean keeps the whole thing flat.