pronunciation of ひと


I heard today in my Japanese class my sensei pronouncing ひと the "ひ" like し my
teacher is not from a Japanese origin he studied there. I want to know is this
pronunciation right? Should I pronounce every ひ as し? Or ひと is the only case?




Neither, really. Merging し and ひ happens in certain dialects, and your teacher
probably studied somewhere where that merger is common. You can choose to do
it this way, or you can choose to not.

(It has nothing to do with the individual word ひと, though. Some people might
merge し and ひ in some places and not others, and before a /t/ might be one of
those places, but it's not a single-word phenomenon.)




Neither, really. Merging し and ひ happens in certain dialects, and your teacher
probably studied somewhere where that merger is common. You can choose to do
it this way, or you can choose to not.

(It has nothing to do with the individual word ひと, though. Some people might
merge し and ひ in some places and not others, and before a /t/ might be one of
those places, but it's not a single-word phenomenon.)

