わなし にほんじんです Here は is read as wa instead of its usual ha Can somebody explain this?

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    6 months ago

    Other East Asian languages sometimes simplify pronunciation in these exact situations to avoid awkward glottal stops and make it easier to say/flow better.

    While Japanese isn’t my specialty (I know what comm I’m in hahah), I would assume similar.