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I have just started learning hiragana, and am confused about the pronunciation
of some of them. I have heard some pronunciation guides for け which say it
should sound like kay, and some which say it should just be ke (with an e
sound like the one found at the start of the English word edge), and some for
か say it should be kar, while others are telling me it should be ka (like the
a sound at the beginning of apple). Can I have some verification as to which
of these is correct, apologies if the question is deemed too basic.

EDIT: Apparently both sets of guides are incorrect, as they try and put the
sounds into terms of English pronunciation. This being the case, can someone
link me to a guide that explains how to properly pronounce them?
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pronunciation hiragana
Pronunciation of the hiragana け and か
This site has voice recordings of all the kana: <http://www.saiga-
jp.com/pronunciation_voice.html>

Trying to learn kana pronunciation from English is a bad idea.
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Why not use the [International Phonetic
Alphabet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA)? According to that they would
be `/kɑ/` for `か` and `/kɛ/` or `/ke/` for `け`.
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