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Old Jul 31, 2013 | 12:32 am
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janetdoe
 
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Originally Posted by JamesHNL
I'm a native Korean speaker, and to be precise, the second syllable is more of a soft g and not "she." For example, the soft G sound you get with the words mirage and arbitrage. So it's ah-gghe-ah-na.
I think the phonetic spelling for the sound you are suggesting would render better if you wrote ah-zhee-ah-na. The "zh" is used to represent the sound in the English words treasure and vision, or in the French name Jacques. Is that close enough to what you intend?

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