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When saying 私は why is it pronounced watashi wa when the は is the character for ha.
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「は」as a PARTICLE is pronounced like 「わ」. This is possibly due to historical reasons, when 「は」used to be pronounced more similarly to 「わ」.
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When は is used as particle, you need to pronounce wa.
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