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tricky pronunciation - kfmfe04 - 2008-12-13
赤坂 浅草 赤坂 浅草 赤坂 浅草
あかさか あさくさ あかさか あさくさ あかさか あさくさ
tricky pronunciation - yukamina - 2008-12-13
playadom Wrote:Tricky pronunciation? Try pronouncing these:Are those even kanji? What the hell....
??????? ?? ?
tricky pronunciation - playadom - 2008-12-13
There's the code2000 series:
http://www.code2000.net/
And some SimSun-ExtB
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1221
There's a load of others -- and a bunch of handwritten fonts, if you look around.
tricky pronunciation - playadom - 2008-12-13
nac_est Wrote:Have you ever heard a Go player talk about 本因坊「ほんいんぼう」秀策「しゅさく」?Nuriko Wrote:Stuff like 千円 The way I hear it, it's not straight 「せんえん」 but more 「せええん」Have you noticed that sometimes they actually pronounce it 「せんいえん」(but いえ are a single sound)?
Or maybe 三千円「さんぜんえん」
tricky pronunciation - playadom - 2008-12-13
nest0r Wrote:Ah, so it was my lack of Ext. B that was giving me trouble. I'm so obsolete.You have now been brought to the age where they have a character with 8 木 in it.
tricky pronunciation - thermal - 2008-12-13
範囲（はんい） is a bitch. Originally I was saying "honey" but it's more like "hai" wtih a wisp of "n". Kind of like 雰囲気.
Another tough one I have made a point of practicing is 暖かかった（あたたかかった）. Try saying that fast
食べられる took me quite a while to get too.
tricky pronunciation - playadom - 2008-12-13
Babyrat Wrote:Ahh, don't worry, when I first started with Pimsleur lessons, I thought 食べます was actually ぱべます for the longest time!QuackingShoe Wrote:Part of the problem might be that they're actually taberaremasen and sumimasen...Ah.. well that shows i have a bad ear for Japanese as I have only heard them but not seen them written down. I think you have just made taberaremasen even harder for me now! though sumimasen is much easier.
passive/potential (一段) can be kindof annoying to say though... well, actually, not in general, but 虐げられる has always given me a headache.
tricky pronunciation - Raichu - 2008-12-15
kfmfe04 Wrote:赤坂 浅草 赤坂 浅草 赤坂 浅草OK you got me. I can't say it.
あかさか あさくさ あかさか あさくさ あかさか あさくさ
tricky pronunciation - haplology - 2008-12-15
I find 食べられます pretty easy, but that's because I practiced it a ton at first - it seemed like it encompassed a lot important sounds. Now I get confused, though, because when I try to switch to a slightly more casual 食べれる instead of 食べられる - I stutter and lose track of the sounds.
I used to find 料理 pretty difficult, too.
tricky pronunciation - joxn_costello - 2008-12-16
nest0r Wrote:I pronounce it kind of like "dyōri"; dunno if that's "right", but whenever I hear Japanese speakers say りゅ or りょ it always sounds to me like "dyu" and "dyo".haplology Wrote:I used to find 料理 pretty difficult, too.This one still gets me if I try too hard to pronounce it, if that makes sense.
tricky pronunciation - Raichu - 2008-12-17
The difference is very subtle. With Japanese /d/ you push your tongue against your teeth, but with /r/ you flap your tongue against your alveolar ridge.
For English /d/ you push your tongue against your alveolar ridge, so English /d/ is in between Japanese /d/ and /r/. That's why りゅ sounds like "dyu" to you.
tricky pronunciation - kfmfe04 - 2008-12-17
Repeat 10 times:
動労 労働 道路 料理 通り
Pronunciations (but read the Kanji 10 times):
どうろう ろうどう どうろ りょうり どおり
tricky pronunciation - nac_est - 2008-12-21
I have the following sentence in my srs:
お金に煩わされたくない
Quite simple, but many months after having entered it I still struggle with the pronunciation of the verb, わずらわされたくない. That's negative+passive+desiderative. Wow!
tricky pronunciation - Jarvik7 - 2008-12-21
How about 王を追おう? ou wo oou (Let's) chase the king!