Technique to improve listening and speaking

AlexandreC Wrote:@kazalee Japanese and Spanish have 5 vowel sounds each. That's a fact. I'm not sure why you think it sounds or feels like more... but it's still 5.

As long as one does not consider voiced and devoiced versions of the same vowel to be different, and as long as one considers dipthongs to be the slurring of two vowels and not a new vowel sound, and does not consider the other sound changes that may accompany the change from short to long vowel to actually create a different vowel sound, and as long as one considers different pronunciations from different regional accents to be regional variation of the same vowel sound and not different vowel sounds... as long as all of that is one's viewpoint then it's a fact in Japanese that there are only 5 vowel sounds.