How do you pronounce sentences with consecutive "o" such as 日本語を話す?


I've been listening to some audio of sentences and sometimes I feel like I
hear them combine the consecutive "o"s together into a long "o"? Here is two
examples of what I hear from different audio sources. You can see that after ご
there is を so double "o". I hear the following two styles of saying this
sentence:

  1. nihongoo hanasu

  2. nihongo o hanasu

In the first example I hear that they just make a long "o" sound like "ou".
But sometimes in the audio I hear them pause quickly and emphasize the
particle "を". Which way is correct here? I always emphasize the particle "を"
but it seems that in this special case it's not as much emphasized when
speaking?




I would expect to hear a long o here, because 日本語 ends with a high pitch and
makes the を high pitched as well. Other words with a pitch drop before the
particle may have a more pronounced を.

Furthermore this is often pronounced as a more "wavy o~" instead of a "long
o-", because を is actually not pronounced like お. It's just that the w sound
is more subtle than in English. You should be able to hear it here:
<https://forvo.com/word/~_%E3%82%92%E3%80%80%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A0%E3%81%95%E3%81%84%E3%80%82/#ja>

That said the audio sample you were listening to may also be slang, in which
case you may have heard 日本語話す.




I would expect to hear a long o here, because 日本語 ends with a high pitch and
makes the を high pitched as well. Other words with a pitch drop before the
particle may have a more pronounced を.

Furthermore this is often pronounced as a more "wavy o~" instead of a "long
o-", because を is actually not pronounced like お. It's just that the w sound
is more subtle than in English. You should be able to hear it here:
<https://forvo.com/word/~_%E3%82%92%E3%80%80%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A0%E3%81%95%E3%81%84%E3%80%82/#ja>

That said the audio sample you were listening to may also be slang, in which
case you may have heard 日本語話す.

