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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "한테" in Korean?
han-te, with an aspirated ㅌ in the second block. Let the breath out audibly, or the consonant collapses toward ㄷ.
hante
Two even beats attached to a person noun. This is the colloquial counterpart of 에게, and the point worth noting is that the aspiration on the ㅌ survives even in fast speech -- it does not soften the way an English t would in the same position.
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Hear it in a sentence
친구한테 전화해요.
Chinguhante jeonhwahaeyo.
I call my friend.
Listen: 친구한테 전화해요.
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친구한테 전화해요 fuses 한테 onto 친구 without a break, chin-gu-han-te, and then 전화해요 weakens both of its ㅎ sounds between voiced neighbours, which is why fast speech produces something like jeo-nwa-hae-yo.
Where English speakers slip
Because the ㅌ sits between two vowels, English speakers flap it the way they flap the t in 'water', producing 'han-de' or even 'han-ne'. Korean does not flap, ever. The aspiration has to stay. Keep the ㅎ light on the first syllable too, since a heavy English h makes the particle sound emphasized when it should be quiet.