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rendaku and sokuon

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weal53005213
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rendaku and sokuon

Postby weal53005213 » August 14th, 2011 10:15 pm

how I can understand to use rendaku and sokuon

Psy
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Postby Psy » August 15th, 2011 2:59 am

The simple solution is to learn a lot of vocabulary and notice the patterns. Things like 発信 はっしん happen when you merge はつ and しん, often with words of Chinese origin. Rendaku happens a lot with Japanese word roots, e.g. 昔話 むかしばなし from むかし and はなし. There are a ton of examples out there, but this is one of those things that you'll pick up on very easily with simple exposure to the language.

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