Tokyo female and male pronunciation

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@Greenfire311

The male audio tends to do that na for ga nasal thing. I think it is a regional dialect, not sure.

To be honest, the “nasal” thing is the proper pronunciation But nowadays the pronunciation changes more and more to the non-nasal variant, therefore you will hear it more in older people.

EDIT: I searched for more info on this and sure enough there is a thread already

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If I recall right, some learning resource on NHK said it’s used for g-column sounds that aren’t at the start of a word. But I read somewhere else more recently that it’s just part of the Tokyo dialect. I find it hard to remember to say the nasal g in the right moments, but I’m not sure whether it actually matters.