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I read だいがくせい as "daigakusei"

But when I hear a recording I hear "dainaksei".
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How to pronounce だいがくせい
I'm no expert on these matters, but I noticed this difference from living in
Kansai and living in Tokyo. It's likely exactly what
[chocolate](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/9831/chocolate) and
[oals](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/6820/oals) linked with the
nasal sounds.

I lived in Kyoto and while studying intensive Japanese at Doshisha University,
I had a teacher from Tokyo. Until this teacher I didn't realise there was a
difference between pronunciations as I took the Kansai pronunciations of
polite Japanese to be normal.

However, when the teacher from Tokyo started her class she identified the
difference in pronunciation. It was mainly related to the nasal pronunciation
of words from those in Tokyo versus those in Kansai/other.

Recently, I spoke to a friend in Tokyo the other day about this and he had no
idea that he was pronouncing words with the nasal "g". I verified with my
other friend from Fukuoka (we were all having dinner) and she agreed.

So what you're hearing could possibly be a Tokyo "accent" of the nasal
pronunciations that many people from Tokyo don't even know about.
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