The first one かた is two morae, which means that each one gets a single beat. If you take a look at the featured picture for this post at the top, then you will see that I put two examples with lines and dots underneath them. Each of these hiragana characters is given the same amount of “air time” when you pronounce them. This concept of “beats” is actually one that I found to be helpful when learning how to correctly pronounce Japanese words. If you think of each morae as a “beat” in music, then we could say that you hold the vowel for two beats in situations where the vowel is long, such as in かあ. It is the exact same sound, so rather than changing any movements in the mouth we simply hold onto it again. What can happen in certain words is that this か is followed immediately by an あ which also has the sound to it. If we take a look at the sound that か makes we can notate it as and see that the consonant is the and the vowel is the.

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What is a long vowel