MUST KNOW Japanese Proper Pronunciation

[@TaylorVanGilder]

I actually just learned about the rhythm thing in my own lessons! Japanese is what's called a "mora-timed" language, meaning every character occupies the same length of time and is evenly pronounced throughout the word/sentence. English, however, is a "stress-timed" language, where we stress other parts of the word MUCH more heavily and that seem to last longer throughout the word based on that emphasis! This also totally reminded me to pick up my Hello Native app more, lol

[@reinascully]

ivulpix OMG TAYLORRRRR YOU WOULD KNOW 💛💛💛 Japanese doesn’t have a breakdown for phonemes vs morphemes as its already broken down to the base syllable, which is super hard to understand if you’re used to Latin based languages! TAYLOR THANK YOU FOR COMMENTING!!!! You’re too good!!!!! 💛💛💛

[@pikalad]

Thank you for mentioning Spanish! I believe that knowing Spanish has helped me with Japanese pronunciation. I just need the confidence to speak! 😣

[@reinascully]

Kim Fuentes confidence is definitely key, I accidentally made my husband nervous about Japanese by over explaining! I think the app is actually awesome for someone like you who wants some practice to build confidence :) everyone is extremely helpful!

[@pikalad]

Reina Scully thank you!!! I will definitely try it!

[@Ari__Ari]

Words like: あめ: rain あめ: candy 😣

[@juanponchman5186]

Rusty Shackleford Dale Gribble is that you?

[@sanjeethmahendrakar]

I realised this difference because of One Piece because in one of the episodes it was raining syrup ( don't ask why ) and they referred to it as "mizu ame" which I think is very clever.

[@giorgias1606]

No, the key it's no the context. Those word are actually pronounced with different accents: àme and amè

[@reinascully]

Rusty Shackleford actually it’s not context for rain and candy, you must pronounce them differently or else it will sound funky. AH me for rain ah MEH for candy :)

[@reinascully]

アリアナAriana ahhh such a perfect example of how confusing it can be!!!! Thanks for this comment!

[@DizZyDiceS]

I always thought that by being Romanian it's super helpful when learning other languages. Because we always pronounce things as they're spelled. And I found it quite easy pronouncing words when I was learning Japanese (I haven't really learned too much as I gave up a few years ago, but I think it's time for me to pick it up again!) I got some digging to do in your playlist now!

[@belaraven]

I'm a Japanese tutor at my junior college and I find your videos so helpful! I always recommend your channel to my students because you clearly explain everything. Every video teaches me something new. Thank you so much for making these

[@wirriam2675]

Reina senseiiiii

[@Mei987]

This year it will be eleven years. Since I started self-studying, Japanese. When I tried to find freeways to learn more formal Japanese. I even made my own dictionaries, with romaji, English and Norwegian. I'll have to check out that app though, if only it had been around when I started my self-studies.

[@carlosrosario9920]

ILY REINA SENSEI

[@michaelmaddox2536]

I love hearing your voice. So upbeat and clear yo!!

[@_fendiman97]

Reina sensei is back. I’ve been waiting for a month!

[@takashimiyagi5594]

What about Byouin (hospital) and Biyouin (hairsalon)? it might be another example of easily mistaken Japanese words

[@hinapuff]

definitely agree!

[@reinascully]

Ahhh absolutely a perfect example!! This one is really tough without sounding goofy first!

[@DanteBogdan]

If only I could actually learn Japanese but my memory is terrible.

[@jezevangelista3622]

same here

[@_boodega]

THANK YOU SO MUCH REINA~SENSEI!

[@AsagisLifeNoBSJapan]

Haha yeah sometimes I get confused when western people say kowai instead of kawaii 😂😂

[@silvershadow5242]

Does kowai means scary in Japanese? Correct me if I'm wrong, I heared that in anime.

[@bread3818]

Dark Knight Of Ionia Yeah it means scary

[@jonahkaiguam]

I have corrected people before in that Kowai means Scary....inu wa totemo kowai desu "the dog is very scary" whereas, inu wa kawaii desu "the dog is cute"

[@TheDustyForest]

Thank you for touching on this, I am English and I think an English accent lends itself much better to learning other languages than an American one does. One common example I have encountered is Americans telling people that 'onsen' is pronounced like OHN-sen (like long 'o', as in the word 'show') rather than like ON-sen (short 'o' as in the word 'box') because most Americans would tend to render the short 'o' sound closer to a Japanese 'a' than 'o', when really the correct pronunciation isn't really possible with an American accent, whereas it is with an English accent. (that was a bit all over the place, hopefully it made sense lol)

[@Stixman213]

TheDustyForest I don't know which Americans you've been around but I got the Japanese pronunciation pretty easily. To be fair, there's more than one "American accent" and maybe that could make the difference. I'm from California so my accent would be different from someone from the East Coast or the South.

[@vladimirovna2274]

Sanders not necessarily im in Kentucky one of the most country states in the east coast yet I have a really good pronunciation as well although most of my family says i talk white T_T

[@TheDustyForest]

@Sanders this is my own fault for communicating badly but I don't mean it is exactly difficult for Americans to get the pronunciation down, what I meant is that with an American accent, trying to pronounce words based on phonetic descriptions alone (i.e. when said by people that haven't done much research on the pronunciation etc.) often sounds less like the correct pronunciation than it would if you had an English accent instead, because of how vowels are rendered. One example is the ohnsen / onsen thing I mentioned above but another is 'manga', I have encountered on numerous occasions americans explaining that the 'man' part should be read like 'mawn' rather than 'man' (as a standard person who hasn't intentionally tried to pick up the language would read them) when really the correct sound isn't really either, it's just a short 'aa' (like in 'father'). Also as regards accents, I respect that there are a whole range of accents in the US, but with the possible exception of New England accents (which I know can be a bit funky), almost all US accents in my experience have the same tendency of rendering all vowels as diphthongs / gliding vowels and just generally lengthening vowels longer than most English accents would. I didn't mean to sound rude or anything if that is how it came across :)

[@Stixman213]

CertifiedGamer01 It really does depend on the person when it comes to pronunciation.

[@Stixman213]

TheDustyForest No worries, you didn't sound rude at all. I must've misinterpreted what you meant. It depends on the person on how they pronounce words. I grew up speaking both English and Spanish, and the pronunciation of the vowels, and most words, in Spanish are almost the same in Japanese. I have that going for me, so maybe people with different backgrounds will have a different experience with pronouncing Japanese words.

[@oOPPHOo]

It's possible that I speak from a place of ignorance here since I don't actually speak Japanese at almost any conversational level. I do however think I'm fairly good at the pronunciation aspect simply because I already speak more than 1 language even though all the languages I actually speak only have European, Latin/Germanic origins. English is actually super unique in how it treats vowels like I and O and knowing another language such as Spanish or, in my case, Danish will already get you much closer to how the Japanese language treats those same vowels. I'm sure this app is helpful as well, but it's just something I've noticed when comparing English to Japanese vs comparing pretty much any other language to Japanese.

[@TheDustyForest]

yeah I am English but it still really bothers me when English people think, for example 'ai' in foreign words should be pronounced like 'ei' (eh-ii) just because it is in English when English is pretty much the only language that does that lol, I think if people were exposed to other languages more and what the kind of 'default' sounds of a/e/i/o/u are in most languages they would have far fewer problems with pronunciation

[@AtticusHimself]

English is weird because it mixes German, French, Scandinavian in with its Angol-Saxon roots, so you get a language with the world's largest vocabulary, and an intense array of exceptions to every rule, that makes its own dedicated grammatical rules for the exceptions themselves.

[@isiahmarmolejo4674]

Konichiwa Reina senpai

[@yvette3736]

Konichiwa is actually a formal way of saying hello. You would actually say Konchiwa :3

[@Phantumix]

She's back oooooofinally

[@kieranknox6565]

Her eyes look really good

[@JarrBass21]

Soooo happy I found your channel. Planning my trip there and everything on this channel is so helpful!

[@gundambassexe31]

Welcome Back Reina senpai I missed you a lot

[@BocookGaming]

What's great about your example is, in my Japanese speech midterm this past semester, the conversation turned to my dogs. My speech partner said, "あの。。。かわいいです！” and I - completely unscripted - replied with "いいえ、こわいです。” Got a laugh, so I was fine with that. :) "Ano... kawaii desu!" meaning, "Oh... they're cute!"; "iie, kowai desu." meaning "No, they're scary." Or, literally, "it is cute" and "it is scary."

[@あたままわるひと]

ピカチュウ愛がすごいな

[@akiosutato717]

Personally, I've never found Japanese hard to learn. Just takes longer to learn all the specifics and what to use in what context. Thanks Reina Sensei for the video! Been on the fence about getting the app and whether or not it'd be useful, but you sold me! Thanks!

[@vesterpop]

This something I'm realizing with teaching ESL: Americans (and all native speakers I'm pretty sure) don't have the crisp vowels we might find in other languages. When I say "hey" you can usually detect a small "yuh" at the end (read "HEYyuh") I'm not even sure what this is called linguistically, but that is something English speakers need to be aware of when speaking other languages. We also just have a lot of vowel sounds, despite only having 5 vowel letters in our alphabet. Fucking up vowels is English speaker's most common issue.

[@jamietucker6700]

it's so nice of you to teach people Japanese good for you reina :D!

[@user-mh5zx3lh5v]

_My bestfriend just got out of the hospital from being hurt because she fractured her ankle and she's finally back in school and I wanted to tell her 'oh my god best friend I missed you so much' in japanese when I see her again._

[@Jordan95M]

Thanks for this app I'm going to try learn Japanese

[@RafaelNguyenAlvarez12]

I learned some Japanese from anime.

[@reddude9008]

Same fam

[@leafster1337]

one of my childhood babysitter’s son learned vietnamese from karaoke

[@brysonatkins4246]

It’s always difficult to pronounce words like “あたたかい” and especially if it’s got that “かつた” conjugation!!!

[@brysonatkins4246]

For me anyways

[@reinascully]

YES!!!!!! the small tsu creating the staccato conjugation is SO difficult to learn and teach cause it’s also a lower formality level so it’s “taught” as past tense, casual, and conversational but it kinda doesn’t belong anywhere in a formal sentence あたたかい あたたかかった あったかったい Even writing these out I’m like WHY DOES THIS EXIST!?

[@brysonatkins4246]

YES YES YES! It's such a mouthful, and it doesn't flow so people won't use it in conversation as much (or that's what I am assuming, that could definitely be wrong though).

[@fireball111121]

I personally love the to say あたたかかった, but I'm sure I over-exaggerate it, since I try to say it as fast as possible.

[@kammymarie13]

I think my biggest issue with pronunciation is knowing which syllables to stress in a word, especially when I'm reading a string of words! I know learning more vocabulary will help with recognizing words within a text but until then I struggle. I also never know when to pronounce something as wa or ha. Ultimately vocabulary (especially Kanji) is the hardest part of learning Japanese so far. I'm not to the point of talking to anyone in Japanese yet but I know when the time comes I will struggle with the formality of it all.... I guess it's best to play it safe and be super formal with everyone?

[@vladimirovna2274]

It's been sooo long since the last reina sensei had to watch this as soon as I got on the bus

[@infinity2infinity401]

Your hair color is so pretty.

[@doctorgod5292]

Bless UP I have been needing this video. You're my life saver praise and blessins

[@emilyjamesstv4709]

I'm Mexican and my second language is Spanish and I'm taking French as well as trying to learn Japanese and now it makes sense why the pronunciation wasn't that hard for me

[@madelynmelancon]

this is such a basic thing but I find ら, り, る, れ, ろ so hard to pronounce!!! as a native English speaker it's so hard to get that perfect blend of the r, d, and l sounds 😅😅😅

[@el_felkx8822]

As a native English speaker trying to learn Japanese, honestly the hardest thing about the entire language by far is Kanji. In terms of difficulty, nothing else compares. Any tips?

[@NicknameZonic18]

Nice!! Now I'll able to learn Japanese more.

[@drww1]

for me the toughest thing is legitimately the pronouncing of anything correctly which sucks but when your accent is a rough solid 10 in roughest (oh and I should say am Scottish) so saying the simplest word or phrases means speaking really slow or awkwardly mispronouncing a key point in words pain in my learning. though am still classified as a beginner these video's do help a lot for us noobs

[@reinascully]

Absolutely agree with you! And what’s crazy is the dialect is slightly different in parts of Japan so the emphasis is in an even different place sometimes!!!! It’s ridiculous. But slow paced and clear pronunciation is the key!!!!

[@aceblake269]

Just came here from your video with Joey. I just want to suggest a playlist like Joey's, his "Japanese 101", videos like this to be included in in those playlist would be cool.

[@load1ng_profile436]

I shall conquer Japanese with HiNative

[@cmh0223]

I really enjoy these videos and thank you for the recommendation! I'm currently using Duolingo to learn Japanese, but I will definitely give this a try as well.

[@Quietfang]

I have a hard time pronouncing the R sound. It sounds really weird when everything else is ok (I'm still learning the rhythms) but when I hit the R it is a real short L and I have looked up videos and I haven't gotten any better. Do you have any tips to help me?

[@hexstrophie]

Even after having taken Japanese in a classroom setting, I've had so many problems with pronunciation haha! Thank you as always Reina for the great tips!! 💖💖💖

[@kenokano]

よくやってらっしゃいますね！

[@fafnir242]

For 「その気持はわかります」, is 「分かる気がする」 also correct, and, if so, is it acceptable or too informal?

[@aircraftdragon]

When I was taking Japanese in high school (through a satellite class involving many other schools), Sensei would always get on us for how we would pronounce Party (Pati). A lot of us would say "pottie' instead. To this day it's still hard for me to pronounce this correctly lol.

[@henriettevdr8668]

I find almost everything with なければなりません hard to pronounce on the spot. Even if I do know the て form I still fall over the words. :'D Luckily I study Japanese at my uni, so I have lots of moments to practise with both classmates and Japanese exchange students~

[@reinascully]

Henriette vdR whoaaaaa that is some nice upper level keigo!!! (Formality / politeness level)

[@henriettevdr8668]

Aaah, ありがとうございます！ This week I learned about the casual/plain form with ならない, which is easier to pronounce haha. :P

[@Than211]

I have used HiNative before and it's an awesome app, especially if you're wanting to help people too with their language difficulties. That being said though, it's also kind of strange to teach someone a language while also using the same language to explain things. I feel like that some of the explanations I have done is kind of lost on the person if their English isn't at least somewhat sufficient. As far as learning Japanese goes, I feel like using/saying it as much as possible helps the most. My Japanese isn't terrible but I'm definitely not comfortable speaking it so I usually have to think about what I'm going to say before saying it which leaves an awkward pause. Then, on top of that, try to also try to sound as natural as possible without sounding like a gaijin. I'm already bilingual as it is so learning Japanese as my third language can be a bit confusing because sentence structures are different.

[@sagabyakuya12]

For me, the toughest part of learning Japanese has been primarily the vocabulary. Japanese pronunciation has never been much of a struggle for me, because as a Finnish native speaker I could get away basically just reading everything in Finnish (Finnish is one of those languages where everything is pronounced exactly how it's written - and it also probably is a harsh sounding language to many). I tend to struggle more with English pronunciation than Japanese as English just doesn't make any sense.

[@jonathanblackwell42]

A few things really get me in Japanese, like 郵便局 because of how very unlike everything I say it is, and ご馳走様でした because I end up saying "ji" instead of "chi" and "shama" instead of "sama." I may simply be bad at speaking now that I think about it

[@reinascully]

Jonathan Blackwell I COMPLETELY understand! The ji / chi happens to my husband all the time! And 郵便局 IS kinda bizarre- I never even thought of it till now! Why is it Kyoku instead of Ya 😅

[@Stixman213]

I have trouble with counters, which ones to use for specific things.

[@reinascully]

Sanders thisssssssss!!!!!!! It’s such a struggle...

[@Stixman213]

Reina Scully I remember asking my sensei about it when I took a Japanese class last year and he shows me a page towards the back of the textbook, that I still have, and it's a giant list of counters. Days, pages, small items, etc. My brain fried that day.

[@waffle2434]

Also since you brought this up in the video, one of the weird "sexist" tendencies of Japanese that one my seniors pointed out during one of my Japanese classes, that I thought was just interesting was that, the kanji for "noisy" (姦) is just 3 "women" (女) kanji stacked together. As if to imply that only women can be noisy😅

[@asuka6207]

Great now i have a video to wach during 3rd period english class

[@Hoigwai]

I would say the hardest words are the longest ones, just like in English you have to start breaking the word down into syllables because your brain can't process the whole word all at once. Also when you have double vowel roll over in a sentence. をお as an example or (of course I'm blanking for other examples atm) when you have a word that ends in a vowel sound and another that starts in one of the same vowel in Japanese as spoken often the beginning and ending of those words blend into one vowel sound which sometimes makes my brain seize up. 8)

[@khalifjoseph1116]

Okay, the app looks nice and I'm down to give it a shot but I have a question; I'm having trouble with some words having whispered vowels. Mainly with words such as kyoushitsu and kaigishitsu. Should it be pronounced "kai-gish-tsu" where the i is somewhat silent or as "kai-gi-shi-tsu" where shi still retains the i sound. That might be a poor explanation but please help if you can 😭😭😭

[@hououinkymeowma2381]

I've been learning Japanese off and on for a year or so. Mostly podcasts like JapanesePod101. But I haven't had trouble pronouncing any word yet..I mostly just have trouble remembering how to write the runes lol

[@numurin]

Other than reading like it's said, Japanese pronunciation can be easier to Portuguese speakers because all the sounds exist in our language, even if they are not spelled exactly the same way - I can see how it's a problem for English speakers because apparently some sounds are really difficult for them, like the Japanese R

[@Gantorin]

I would say the hardest thing for me is when repeating a sentence back to my learning program. getting the rhythm and and tone correct. having to say new words in a specific way to get the sentence correct takes a few tries. I am doing okay with vocabulary though.

[@marko19914]

Does "未来の少女" sound natural?

[@純粋-u6i]

You should take a look at the JA Sensei app. Please tell me what you think!

[@MrTruth-yn7pq]

Reina Senpai!!

[@3dd656]

Personally, the only part of japanese that I still struggle with, pronunciation wise, are the "r" equivalent consonants(ra, ri, ru, re, ro) as they were explained not to be like "r" in western languages but more resembling a combination of "R" and "L" in both pronunciation and tongue movement.

[@Than211]

I think that's a common problem, it's really more of a blend of the r and l together. It's funny because Japanese people have a hard time differentiating the two the other way around. Try getting a native Japanese speaker try to say "wrong" and "long" and you'll get the same exact sound LOL

[@Slowbrowoah]

Tbh I speak russian and I feel like my japanese is almost spot on. But i also think from watching anime with sub growing up i picked up on pronunciation naturally growing up. Idk though.

[@waffle2434]

It took me a while to realize the difference in pronunciation between かわいい and こわい, and it wasn't only my Japanese professor noticed my mistake and clarified the difference for me to know😅 on top of that, these two words almost mean completely opposite things "cute" and "scary" which just adds insult to injury😅😅😅

[@fireball111121]

My Japanese pronunciation is honestly great, at least in my opinion. Maybe I trip up when trying to read Wasei eigo katakana words that I haven't seen before (as in trying to figure out the pacing of the words without any context such as kanji), but otherwise it's great. I had an audio book that really drove home how to properly pronounce the らりるれろ (ra ri ru re ro) sounds, so when I did end up taking my first official Japanese class, I had most of the individual characters down and somewhat native sounding. My only real issue at this point is vocab, and maybe some of the more obscure grammar things, and the big one: reading Kanji.

[@auheckna]

ども。I said thanks as "Domo." Is that correct?

[@wolfferoni]

I really wanted to see the answers to your questions!

[@cutesparks]

We’re we suppose to have sound at the end? Cuz I don’t hear her talking just the music

[@hadesprevention7668]

I need my dose of my favorite detective pair Suptic and Scully

[@hinapuff]

ahaha, This is such a great question.. I think for a long time (and maybe still) it is: 百鬼夜行 (hyakkiyakou)-- for some reason when I was still learning w/o a formal class or Sensei, I would say it something like.. "hi-yakki-ya-kou" even though I could say 百 (hyaku) on its own correctly. Fast forward to the present and I can pronounce 百鬼夜行 correctly but I have to really think about it before speaking, if I don't then I just regress to 10 years ago (笑). as for something about the language itself that is difficult, I suppose it is learning/committing kanji to memory? Pronunciation has generally been my strong suit (other than the extremely rare cases in which I end up in a conversation about mythology and folk tales, ww).. I suppose differentiating the famous katakana シ・ツ "shi"/"tsu" and ソ・ン"so"/"n". anyway, I love your videos, Reina-sensei~ Thank you for another helpful vid!

[@1Katakana]

I'm trying to learn a bit hiragana. What I find most challenging is that there is no space between the words when written down. So I could come across a sentence, know the hiragana in of itself, but since I don't know the actual words I have no idea how many hiraganas makes up the different words 😅 So I can write down what the hiragana means, but I have no idea how to speak the sentence or know what words are being used, unless I actually recognice some of the words within the long sentence of seemingly random letters 😅 It's the reason why "ha" and "wa" is so difficult to me. I know "wa" is used to tie two words together so to speak, but when I come across it, seeing how there's never any space between the words I always always think "ha" when translating it since it looks like it should be part of a word 😛 I also have a really hard time remembering the difference between the hiragana for "i" and "ri" 😅

[@SelcraigClimbs]

This is the exact reason as to why kanji is so useful haha. それで漢字は大切だと思いますよ

[@SakumaP]

Yeah, I used Hi Native a couple years back and liked it a lot. If it had some changes like you said, then maybe I'll download it again. :v

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Very informative and interesting! Thanks for posting this video! Kawaii (Cute) and Kowai (scary) are perfect examples of words that need to be pronounced clearly and cleanly otherwise there'll be confusion. I don't technically speak Japanese, but I know a handful of vocab words and simple grammar and other basic structure etc due to my watching anime subtitled for almost 20 years. Still though, great video!

[@Deathnotelover95]

Great vid. I learned a lot. I think my biggest problem is vocabulary, and memorizing the characters. Ultimately, the vowels are usually pronounced the same, which is very helpful. However, it is difficult to know where the emphasis is placed just by seeing the word. Is it just memorizing or are there rules?

[@lock-on-taranteso9384]

Guys Reina is correct, A-E-I-O-U vowels are correctly pronounced the same in Japanese as it is in Spanish, In the U.S. Spanish is the number 1 ranked second language people study, so use that formal knowledge as a foundation to build you Japanese speaking skills, you will be amazed on how uncanny you will sound to a native Japanese speaker if you have practiced your Spanish vowels before, good luck guys and keep learning, Cheers!

[@windhelmguard5295]

those vowels actually go all the way back to classical latin and they are pronounced very similarily in most european languages which did not have the vowel shift the english language had.

[@lock-on-taranteso9384]

Hi Reina, wanted to get your input on this Mon Laferte rendition of her Spanish song Antes De Ti, in Japanese, " Mon Laferte- Antes De Ti ( Version En Japones / lyric video)" in my opinion I think it is good enough to be a 007 song or in a Quentin Tarantino flick

[@音-g2w]

Wow ur so fluent

[@JustinK0]

well.. out of all the Asian languages, i think Japanese pronoun pronunciation is the easiest. Compared to other languages there are more commonality with the Japanese and English sounds. The ones i found to be the hardest are, つ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, but im used to them now so its not too bad. When it comes to tones in words, like rising vs falling, its not nearly as hard as chinese, thai, vietnamese, ect.

[@mhlib7569]

Intonation is the most difficult for me :( I remember one incident I was trying to tell someone "next time" as in the next time in class and apparently my intonation of 次回 was off??? dunno

[@dmrc43]

Senpai! I think I might use This, if only to help you put.😊 hope you're doing good.

[@SelphieFairy]

English has a lot of dipthongs. I think English speakers tend to ADD in dipthongs and other sounds where they don't exist. Tokyo should only be two syllables but English speakers tend to pronounce it "To KEE yoh" and add another syllable.

[@anotheradhdguy]

Reina senpai ☺️☺️

[@torress9119]

Senseiiii

[@topnotchcupoftea]

What the most spoken language in Japan?

[@claram7158]

Why is your husband learning Japanese? How do you feel about it? I'm also Japanese with a non-Japanese boyfriend who is learning the language but I don't really like it... (it'll be cool if you can do a video about your experience being in a interracial relationship!)

[@DoomyRei]

Where have you been!!!!

[@unit03]

Been using duo lingo

[@DesertPunk00]

oooof, i usually love her content, but when half the damn video is an add that's just too much, the actual content doesn't start untill 5 minutes in of a 10 minute video,

[@giorgias1606]

It's... strange how english speaking people think that everybody would have their same pronunciation. Probably that oishii portugal guy didn't actually need the "oyshee" spelling, because for latin language speakers japanese pronunciation is the simplest thing! Us Italian have zero problem in learning japanese pronunciation

[@hanbunix7209]

R is like d right b is like v i think

[@crimsonrose4648]

Honestly I probably will never learn another language especially using apps cuz CAPD probs... Like I have enough troubles with English which I went through years of speech therapy. I wish the people making these types of apps would talk to speech therapists to figure out how to make this stuff more accessible... I'll just stick with asl as a second language.

[@truthfinderjohn]

I'm kinda good at pronunciation. I say them out loud but it just takes me a couple tries

[@tia2083]

The "R" line in hiragana. Especially る. I roll my R too much. Or it sounds like a D.

[@pekoeji]

Me and my friend who is from Japan were doing Japanese tongue twisters and it was so funny! She did them no problem and I was over here dying cause the words were simple to pronounce but combined it was a mess.. And then I got her back with English tongue twisters and she felt my pain (':

[@donkeykong4983]

She’s adorable

[@drybowser2040]

Donkey Kong Oh hello

[@khoablink]

How do I say ''My Sensei is pretty'' in Japanese.

[@Than211]

Watashi no sensei wa kirei desu. If I'm wrong, someone could correct me. Watashi (I) no (watashi + no = my) sensei (teacher) wa (notes the subject) kirei (pretty/beautiful) desu (is).

[@khoablink]

Thanks, I'll say that to Reina sensei if I ever meet her!

[@volodesi0000]

My southern accent makes it a little tough. xD

[@desuMaKun]

7:15 did not sound good, I’m afraid. Go me okkushon? What?

[@elizabetholmos652]

Hopefully, I'm a Spanish speaker and the vowels and "R"s sound are harder. Bless my chilean parents.

[@deinobelle4146]

I'm fluent in Chinese and first started learning Japanese by romaji, since I didn't have an actual person to teach me and figured it'd be like pinyin... It was not at all lol threw me off so much