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hey what a nice idea^^
I figured it would be good if people learned the pronounciation of the romaji so that they can read everything else that you'll teach^^ hehe since I took Japanese for four years (and hardly remember any of it), haha I can give a quick lesson on that~ First, there are five basic vowel sounds A "ah" with a short 'a' sound like, cat I "ee" a long 'e' sound like see U "ou" short 'u' sound like poo XD E "eh" short 'e' sound like pet O "oh" long 'o' sound like no basically, with these vowel sounds, unlike english, every time you see these letters, you pronounce them the same way. then the consonant sounds K, S, T, H, R, and Y K is always pronounced with a hard 'k' sound like, kite S sounds like...how you always read 's' with the exception of 'shi' (the 's' with the 'i' vowel) T is the same as S with the one exception of 'chi' (that's the 't' with 'i') and also the 'tsu' (which is the 't' with 'u') the Japanese don't have the 'ti' or 'tsu' sounds except for in katakana where they make foreign words sometimes H sounds like how you would normally read a 'h' except 'hu' is pronounced, 'fu' or 'hu' and 'fu' said together...but saying just 'fu' should be understandable enough R sounds like 'r' and 'l' slurred together...so it almost sounds like 'rla, rle, rlu, rle, rlo' except the 'l' sound is not as strong as the 'r' you gotta roll the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth while saying it... and Y just sounds like...Ya, yu, yo (yah, you, yo) then there's the 'tenten's and 'maru's that are placed in the top right corner of the characters which I don't have time to go into right now....haha maybe someone can pick it up from here~ And correct me if I'm wrong anywhere~ [edit] when a "tenten" or what looks a bit like one quotation mark placed on the top right of a character, it changes the consonant sound. Anyways, those sounds are G, Z, B, and P The G sound is the hard 'g' sound so it's like, gate or game and NOT like giraff or gentle And all the other ones just sound like their respective sounds... haha I think that's basically all you need to know.... |
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Posted on: 2006/1/23 18:54
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