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Listening: minimal pairs聞き分け

おばさん or おばあさん? ビル or ビール? Hear a word and choose its spelling, to train your ear for long vowels, っ and ん. Every recording was checked to be heard as its own word. The first chapter is free.

What you'll learn

  • おじさん伯父さんuncle, middle-aged man
  • おじいさんgrandfather, male senior citizen
  • おばさん伯母さんaunt
  • おばあさんgrandmother, female senior-citizen
  • キロ(abbr.) kilo (kilogram)
  • きいろ黄色yellow

From the free chapters. Word and kanji data: JMdict and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA); sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY). Sources

5 chapters

learn: new items, a round of up to 10 at a time, until each is right.

  1. 第1話Long vowels 1 · 16 pairslearnFREE
  2. 第2話Double consonants (っ) · 12 pairslearnMEMBER
  3. 第3話ん 1 · 14 pairslearnMEMBER
  4. 第4話Long vowels 2 · 16 pairslearnMEMBER
  5. 第5話ん 2 · 14 pairslearnMEMBER