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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "편하다" in Korean?
pyeon-ha-da. An aspirated ㅍ with a real puff, a y-glide onto the flat ㅓ, and a ㅎ that weakens after the nasal.
pyeonhada
Three unaccented syllables. The first is dense -- an aspirate, a glide, a vowel and a nasal -- while the other two are simple, so the word front-loads its difficulty without front-loading any emphasis.
Listen: 편하다
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Hear it in a sentence
휴가를 다녀와서 마음이 편해요.
Hyugareul danyeowaseo maeumi pyeonhaeyo.
I feel relaxed after the vacation.
Listen: 휴가를 다녀와서 마음이 편해요.
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휴가를 다녀와서 마음이 편해요 puts a long clause in front, and 마음이 shows two vowels meeting with a ㅁ carrying into the particle, giving ma-eu-mi.
Where English speakers slip
Losing the aspiration on the ㅍ gives 변하다, a real verb meaning to change, so the breath is doing genuine work -- push it. Splitting 편 into two syllables is the second error, and giving the ㅎ full English force is the third.