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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "날씨" in Korean?
nal-sshi. The ㅆ is tensed and, because the vowel is ㅣ, also palatalized -- so it is a hard, hissing 'sh' rather than a plain s.
nalssi
Two blocks, the second slightly longer because a tensed sibilant takes time to produce. Nothing is stressed, but the word does have a noticeably light-front, heavy-back feel because of that consonant.
Listen: 날씨
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Hear it in a sentence
오늘 날씨가 어때요?
Oneul nalssiga eottaeyo?
How's the weather today?
Listen: 오늘 날씨가 어때요?
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오늘 날씨가 어때요? attaches the subject particle to a vowel-final noun, so nothing resyllabifies and 날씨가 runs as three clean beats. The question then closes with 어때요, which opens on another tensed consonant, ㄸ.
Where English speakers slip
Learners produce a plain 'nal-si', missing both features at once -- squeeze the throat and let the tongue move back toward the palate. The dark English l is the other habit, and it colours the ㅏ backward, which makes the first block sound like 'nahl'.