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Pronuciation? - xAyakox - 2010-06-28
Hi, I just have a question about pronunciation..
I have some children books in Japanese from when I was little and now that I'm learning Japanese I got them out for practice. I know a few things about how a little つ (which I don't know how to type) doubles the next sound.. and the しゃ しょ sounds etc... but what I'm confused about is sounds like oi or ai..
ねずみ の おいしゃさま is one of the books, something about doctor mouse I think?
Anyways... how you know if it's supposed to be pronounced Oh-i-sha-sama, or like.. Oi-sha-sama. Or like o-sha?
I'm mostly using these books just for hiragana/katakana recognition practice, so I make many pronunciation errors I'm sure, but I'd still like to learn the correct way to pronounce things before I get too many bad habits.
Pronuciation? - xAyakox - 2010-06-28
Oh, I have another question about books.
Well, right now I know very few Japanese words, but I wanted to get a "real" Japanese novel. Like, a short novel, something high school age that's not manga. The books stores I found online were hard to understand and most/all of the book summaries were in Japanese which I couldn't understand...
I love to read (mostly fiction) like James Patterson books (Maximum Ride
) Harry Potter, A Child Called It (not fiction), My Sister's Keeper, Lovely Bones etc.. As for a Japanese book, maybe something high school/middle school student would read, preferably a happy story, lol. So if anyone has some favorite Japanese books/book stores to recommend. I'd love to hear about them. And well, I'm not any where near ready to be able to read them, but I thought it'd be nice have my goal in my hands to keep me motivated/something else to look forward to. ^_^
Pronuciation? - pm215 - 2010-06-28
xAyakox Wrote:ねずみ の おいしやさま is one of the books, something about doctor mouse I think?I'm guessing that's おいしゃさま...
Quote:Anyways... how you know if it's supposed to be pronounced Oh-i-sha-sama, or like.. Oi-sha-sama. Or like o-sha?I'm not sure how best to explain pronunciation, but I'm pretty sure you'll do enormously better by finding some resource or explanation that lets you *hear* the correct ways of pronouncing words rather than trying to get a text-only explanation from this forum...
The EDICT entry for おいしゃさん has an audio clip. (おいしゃさま hasn't been recorded yet), for instance. There may be better resources out there too.
Pronuciation? - xAyakox - 2010-06-28
Ah okay, tyvm I was looking everywhere to find a sound clip of it. That helped a lot.
and yeah, it's supposed to be a little ゃ (I just figured out how to do that.. lol)