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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "또" in Korean?
tto, one tight beat. The consonant is tensed: throat locked, no aspiration, a hard sudden release onto a rounded 'oh'.
tto
Just one beat, short and sharp. Because tensed consonants need a moment to set up, the syllable often sounds slightly delayed relative to what came before -- and that tiny hesitation is a property of tensed onsets, not a stress.
Listen: 또
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Hear it in a sentence
내일 또 만나요.
Naeil tto mannayo.
See you again tomorrow.
Listen: 내일 또 만나요.
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내일 또 만나요 slots 또 between an adverb and a verb, and the ㄹ of 내일 links into the tensed ㄸ without any break. Then 만나요 gives you the held double n across the 만+나 seam, so one short farewell contains both a tensed stop and a geminate nasal.
Where English speakers slip
English speakers reach for either 'toe' with aspiration or 'doe' with voicing, and both are the wrong phoneme: aspirating gives 토, softening gives 도. The tensed consonant sits between them and is made with a squeezed throat -- press a finger lightly under your chin and you should feel the tension when it is right.