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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "목소리" in Korean?
mok-sso-ri. The unreleased ㄱ of 목 tenses the following ㅅ into ㅆ, so the middle of the word is harder than it looks.
moksori
Three beats with a silent closure after the first. The compound is 목 plus 소리, and the tensing happens exactly at the seam, which is where Korean compounds reliably produce this change.
Listen: 목소리
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Hear it in a sentence
그분은 목소리가 좋으세요.
Geubuneun moksoriga joeuseyo.
He has a nice voice.
Listen: 그분은 목소리가 좋으세요.
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그분은 목소리가 좋으세요 attaches the subject particle to a vowel-final noun and finishes with 좋으세요, where the ㅎ of 좋 disappears between vowels and the word runs jo-eu-se-yo.
Where English speakers slip
Saying 'mok-so-ri' with a soft s is the standard miss, because nothing in the romanization signals the tensing -- squeeze the throat. Releasing the ㄱ is the second habit, and the third is an American r at the end, which slows down the syllable that should be quickest in the word.