yoo - 'ts-ee - kah

yoo as in you

'ts as in tsunami

ee as in glee

kah as in karate

… is how my brain and mouth are trying to make sense of this.

Apparently Hungarian has a 'tsi / 'tsee sound that is basically like the Japanese 'tsu, just with a different trailing vowel.

For whatever reason, in Japanese, there is only 'tsu, there is no… 'tsah or 'tsee or 'tsoh.

And in Hungarian … there is only 'tsi/'tsee … no 'tsu or 'tsah or 'tsoh.

… I have spent the last hour being baffled and also making consonant and vowel sounds randomly, like a madman.