@Dogen Did you at some point already cover the use (or lack of use) of the glottal stop in Japanese? Background: Coming from German, where a glottal stop is mandatory for any word that starts with a vowel, I wonder if there is anything I need to be aware of for Japanese.
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I've watched the lesson and still have a question - my concern is with the glottal stop at the start of words. In German, all vowel words start with a glottal stop. For example, "offen" (open) actually is rendered as [ʔɔffən], not [ɔffən]. Does this happen in Japanese?
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よかった。Because this is fully automatic for a native German speaker and extremely hard to notice, let alone get rid of. Some other languages don't seem to have that feature and German accents instantly sound harsh because of it.
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Japanese has it as well, as I described. Glad to help! ^^ good luck with your studies!
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