i always pronounce the d as /ð/ instead of /d/ and i noticed when som1 said nata i thought they said nada and they sound very simmilar does it matter?
that's curious. what's your native language? sometimes i do that when speaking russian. i'll be like /da/ --> [d̞a] (the lowering diacritic means there's less constriction, so i end up pronouncing it more closely to a fricative or approximant than a plosive, just like you do) you probably associate the voice onset time that person used for the /t/ in nata with voiced plosives :) but i'm curious what language is this? btw this is the same principle that makes english speakers think that they hear the word "beak" when they listen to a spliced audio of the word "speak" minus the /s/. this is cause english aspirates voiceless plosives word-initially. so the voice onset time for word initial plosives is strongly positive, for not initial plosives it's weakly positive, and for voiced plosives it's negative. hence the non initial plosive /p/ in "speak" will be weakly positive, which an english speaker might group in the negative VOT category when it appears word initially, and think that it's a voiced plosive they're hearing.
