Its spoken like “Tsu” and “zsu” (?) with a Dakten, but in words it sometimes just appears as a normal “t”. Like “tomorrow/ あさって” in hiragana = “assatte”. Shouldnt it sound more like “a-sa-tsu-te”?
This is small tsu, it’s to make next vowel pronounce twice. Without it it would be pronounced asate, but with it asatte.
And as far as I know dzu and chi dakuten ji is not used a lot, I’ve studied for one year and didn’t come across it so…
Think of the small っ as a quick pause in between syllables.
it makes the next consonant double, so さっき = sakki, しゅっせき = shusseki, etc.
that’s not double like in english which is a spelling convention but actually holding the consonant a little longer
and yeah in modern standard japanese づ=ず, just pronounced zu.
As pointed out, there is a small version of the character that is different. There are other smaller characters, generally the vowels. し and ち are often enough followed by a small vowel in order to get the “sh” and “ch” sounds before other vowel sounds.
Looking through my recent index cards for other small っ words. I only have two in my recent pile. 物価高 – ぶっかだか – bukkadaka – inflation 失敗 – しっぱい – shippai – failure or mistake
Another early one that I’m quick to remember the word for is school (学校 – がっこう – gakkou).
You’ll have to just get practice at recognize the small characters from the big ones. Familiarity makes it much easier, so 頑張れ！
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This is small tsu, it’s to make next vowel pronounce twice. Without it it would be pronounced asate, but with it asatte.
And as far as I know dzu and chi dakuten ji is not used a lot, I’ve studied for one year and didn’t come across it so…
Think of the small っ as a quick pause in between syllables.
it makes the next consonant double, so さっき = sakki, しゅっせき = shusseki, etc.
that’s not double like in english which is a spelling convention but actually holding the consonant a little longer
and yeah in modern standard japanese づ=ず, just pronounced zu.
As pointed out, there is a small version of the character that is different. There are other smaller characters, generally the vowels. し and ち are often enough followed by a small vowel in order to get the “sh” and “ch” sounds before other vowel sounds.
Looking through my recent index cards for other small っ words. I only have two in my recent pile.
物価高 – ぶっかだか – bukkadaka – inflation
失敗 – しっぱい – shippai – failure or mistake
Another early one that I’m quick to remember the word for is school (学校 – がっこう – gakkou).
You’ll have to just get practice at recognize the small characters from the big ones. Familiarity makes it much easier, so 頑張れ！