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>>284
Same guy here. I guess I could sum this up as: Do you pronounce every hiragana phonetic in a word every time? or do some combine like in English? I.e. the 'a' and 'i' in "はい" forming an 'eye' sound making the word sound something like "hi." Or should it in fact sound like "は-い"