Japanese Small Tsu (っ) Rules - When It Appears | JP VTuber Lesson

Learn Japanese pronunciation! Master the small tsu (っ) and sokuon rules. When does the small tsu appear? How to pronounce double consonants correctly? 👉 Free Japanese Lesson Streams on Twitch:   / nakomoonvt   🔽 More Videos You Might Like! 🔽 How to Sound Native in Japanese | 3 Vowel Devoicing Rules with JP VTuber:    • How to Sound Native in Japanese | 3 Vowel ...   Learn Japanese Verb Masu-form with Your Favorite VTuber!:    • Learn Japanese Verb Masu-form with Your Fa...   Japanese Small "Tsu" (っ) Rules | Gemination 促音化 | 2025/3/4 - Twitch VOD:    • Japanese Small "Tsu" (っ) Rules | Geminatio...   ✶･･━━━━━━━━━━━━･･✶ Hey there! I'm a Japanese native speaker and a VTuber who loves teaching Japanese in a fun and easy way. If you enjoy my content, don’t forget to subscribe so you won’t miss any upcoming lessons! Feel free to join my Japanese lessons on Twitch and follow me on social media ✨ Twitch – Japanese Lessons:   / nakomoonvt   TikTok – Fun Japanese Learning Shorts:   / nakomoonvt   Twitter – Daily Japanese Learning Posts:   / nakomoonvt   Bluesky – Daily Japanese Learning Posts: https://bsky.app/profile/nakomoonvt.b... Discord – Ask Nako About the Japanese Language:   / discord   Business Inquiries – https://nakomoonvt.carrd.co/#contact ✶･･━━━━━━━━━━━━･･✶ [Credits] Live2D Design & Art: 羽織イオ https://x.com/haori_crescendo Live2D Rig: makotok1 https://x.com/makotok1 Name logo: 青猫 https://x.com/aoneko2_osakana ✶･･━━━━━━━━━━━━･･✶ References & Sources: さんかくけいとさんかっけい：漢語の促音化 [どっちシリーズ その12]: https://community.bunpro.jp/t/topic/1... 「あたたかい」と「あったかい」：和語の促音化 [どっちシリーズ その11]: https://community.bunpro.jp/t/topic/9... 漢字の音読みの促音化（小さい「っ」の変化）について考える: https://note.com/uwasanotekun/n/n219d... どうして「石器」は「せっき」と読むのに「石碑」は「せきひ」になるの？: https://nihon5kyoushi.com/2018/05/29/ 日本語教師が教える！教養のための「漢字の読み方」ルール5選: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/artic... 「洗濯機」はセンタクキ？ センタッキ？: https://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/research... 数量詞の音変化について: https://ameblo.jp/kanadara11/entry-12... 促音化: https://imabi.org/sokuonka/ Thank you to all the educators! ✶･･━━━━━━━━━━━━･･✶ 0:00 Intro 0:10 What made me decide to do this lesson? 0:37 Why you don’t actually need to memorize these rules? 1:15 How many rules are there? 1:27 What is sokuonka (促音化)? 3:48 What is wago (和語) and kango (漢語)? 4:55 Rule 1 for sokuonka in wago: When go-dan verbs ending in -u, -tsu, or -ru in their dictionary-form turn into the te-form. 6:39 Rule 2 for sokuonka in wago: When the final sound of the first verb in a compound verb is -i, -ki, -shi, -chi, or -ri. 13:30 Before we get into the rules of sokuonka in kango 15:32 Rule 1 for sokuonka in kango: Kanji ending in -ki, or -ku undergo sokuonka before K column sounds. 18:05 Rule 2 for sokuonka in kango: Kanji ending in -chi or -tsu and 十 (juu - ten) undergo sokuonka before K, S (SH), T (CH), and H (F) column sounds. 23:50 Rule 3 for sokuonka in kango: 六 (roku - six) and 百 (hyaku - hundred) undergo sokuonka before K and H (F) column sounds. 28:20 Exception 1 31:01 Exception 2 33:20 Thank you for watching! #Japanese #LearnJapanese #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseVocabulary #StudyJapanese #JapaneseWriting #JapaneseGrammar #JapaneseLearning #JapaneseCharacters #JapaneseWords #JapaneseEducation