Hiragana Page 57 Combinations

These were recorded a long time ago and unfortunately have a severe buzz. I'll try to get Yumi to record better ones soon.

http://thejapanesepage.com/audio_files/dakuten.zip

with a site http://www.tanoshiijapanese.com i need it just 1 week to learn the hiragana

So, should you memorize the combinations as well? I've been getting Hiragana down but not sure if I should memorize these as well. :o

Sorry for another weird question but making sure. I'm not used to self studying . :S

Great, thanks a lot!

"du" and "di" will generate those characters from the romaji keyboard.
The "d" is because づ and ぢ belong to the d-row.

(In the same way, you can generate つ and ち with just "tu" and "ti", saving yourself a keypress.)

Usually zu is ず and ji is じ　however there are fairly rare uses of づ　and　ぢ

These are not interchangeable, and for the most part you just need to memorize the exceptions.

Quoted from wikipedia

There are two hiragana pronounced ji (じ and ぢ) and two hiragana pronounced zu (ず and づ). These pairs are not interchangeable. Usually, ji is written as じ and zu is written as ず. There are some exceptions. If the first two syllables of a word consist of one syllable without a dakuten and the same syllable with a dakuten, the same hiragana is used to write the sounds. For example chijimeru ('to boil down' or 'to shrink') is spelled ちぢめる and tsuzuku ('to continue') is つづく. For compound words where the dakuten reflects rendaku voicing, the original hiragana is used. For example, chi (血 'blood') is spelled ち in plain hiragana. When 鼻 hana ('nose') and 血 chi ('blood') combine to make hanaji 鼻血 'nose bleed'), the sound of 血 changes from chi to ji. So hanaji is spelled はなぢ according to ち: the basic hiragana used to transcribe 血. Similarly, tsukau (使う/遣う; 'to use') is spelled つかう in hiragana, so kanazukai (仮名遣い; 'kana use', or 'kana orthography') is spelled かなづかい in hiragana.

However, this does not apply when kanji are used phonetically to write words which do not relate directly to the meaning of the kanji (see also ateji). The Japanese word for 'lightning', for example, is inazuma (稲妻). The 稲 component means 'rice plant', is written いな in hiragana and is pronounced: ina. The 妻 component means 'wife' and is pronounced tsuma (つま) when written in isolation—or frequently as zuma (ずま) when it features after another syllable. Neither of these components have anything to do with 'lightning', but together they do when they compose the word for 'lightning'. In this case, the default spelling in hiragana いなずま rather than いなづま is used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

It has no pronunciation, it is actually a market for a double consonant, which makes almost a pause before the next sounds.

An example of this is さか saka hill
さっか　sakka author

Instead of pronouncing it saka, there is a slight pause between sa and ka

When used after a sound, but has no consonant to double up ( such as the くっ　example you provided ) It's a hard stop to the sound, making it seem a bit shorter.

Another example is えっ　　showing surprise.

well, my comment is waaaay later than your post!!
but it might help if you think of it like this: (perhaps you no longer need this :S )

in spanish the letter "y" is called "the greek i"
it might help you think of "y" as an "i", the combination of ji+ya makes more sense.

There's a lot of theories in response to this post, but I think what it all boils down to is a quirk. Look at English, I mean who the devil decided that the "gh" in "tough" would make an "uff" sound? ;]
I just tend to accept the quirks and not think too much about them, it helps me move on and learn quicker. =]

The smaller letter means you say it quicker.

I think that (じあ) would be 'jia', and (じゃ) is 'ja' because it doesnt get a 'y' in it like most of the combinations do. That might be because J's are already make a bit of a 'y' like sound. (I'm just learning myself, so that might be wrong).

http://japanese.about.com/library/blqow36.htm