Off topic: I see. I find Mandarin much easier. I just hate how Japanese 漢字 have 30 readings each.

On topic: It's hard to pronounce some 外来語 after saying it the English so long.

gyuujuice Wrote:Off topic: I see. I find Mandarin much easier. I just hate how Japanese 漢字 have 30 readings each.

On topic: It's hard to pronounce some 外来語 after saying it the English so long.

haha yea that part of japanese is annoying. One kanji can have soo many readings while some can have only 1 while others just a few.

I'm looking at you two: 上 and 生! *glares intently*

靴下　often catches me off guard for some reason.

Well my socks are INSIDE my shoes!
Should be fricking 靴中...

Also, why am I complaining so trivial? English has around 15 being verbs. (Not sure of actual amount.)

gyuujuice Wrote:Well my socks are INSIDE my shoes!
Should be fricking 靴中...

Also, why am I complaining so trivial? English has around 15 being verbs. (Not sure of actual amount.)

"Satin" and all his little devil free ends with their little "devel" horns got twogether and decided to cree eight the most massive, insane, asinine conglomeration of a language to ever exist. The frutsu of their "leibour" was English.

For me, so far: 交響曲[こうきょうきょく]. Haha.

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I found this while following news transcripts

Any word with ra,ri,ru,re,ro in it.
:S

kazelee, Satin isn't evil enough to have created English. English was the result of a people who tried to take everything from all the languages and cram it into their langauge. And then those people started seaking a slang version of that.

I really have a hard time spelling. That's why I prefer 漢字 over カタカナ. =_=


philiphoward123, Don't even go there! lol

Just like some of the others on this thread, I have trouble with 'r/n' combinations. Not only '連絡', but '訓練', and the the dreaded '観覧車'. Luckily, I don't have to say that last one very often.

りょうり. I sound like a バカ　every time I try to say it.

竜 (りゅう)
Two sounds not found in English combined and to make it extra fun a long vowel too. Arghh!

連絡

kazelee Wrote:連絡

YOU CAN'T! I POSTED THIS ALREADY

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid101055

slivir Wrote:Any word with ra,ri,ru,re,ro in it.
:S

and any word with りゃ、りゅ、りょ　りょう、りゅう

Hmm.. is it only me that has a problem with the likes of つづく
My tongue often tumbles on that middle "dzu"-sound.
I often end up saying a "du"- or or "su"-sound.

gagge_tah Wrote:Hmm.. is it only me that has a problem with the likes of つづく
My tongue often tumbles on that middle "dzu"-sound.
I often end up saying a "du"- or or "su"-sound.

It's pronounced /zu/, not /dzu/. Maybe that's the cause of your trouble.

JimmySeal Wrote:

gagge_tah Wrote:Hmm.. is it only me that has a problem with the likes of つづく
My tongue often tumbles on that middle "dzu"-sound.
I often end up saying a "du"- or or "su"-sound.

It's pronounced /zu/, not /dzu/. Maybe that's the cause of your trouble.

Not true, it depends on the person. Very many Japanese people pronounce づ differently from ず. It's not even a dialectical thing.

じ and ぢ on the other hand...

I find native Japanese speakers use a more "round" zu than I mostly do. Maybe it's only my ears...

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And あたたかかった、I always forget how many かs and たs there are.

あたたかかった and あらわす get me every time

Aww, come on! Nobody's up for my personal favourite, Jijitsu (fact)? Surely I can't be the only one having a hard time pronouncing it right, specially paired with the plain be verb....Or maybe I just have some speaking deficit or something.....

Raschaverak Wrote:Aww, come on! Nobody's up for my personal favourite, Jijitsu (fact)? Surely I can't be the only one having a hard time pronouncing it right, specially paired with the plain be verb....Or maybe I just have some speaking deficit or something.....

You're not alone. I hate jijitsu so much. It never fails to trip me up. I'm serious, too.

Every.
Single.
Time.

There are words like あたたかかった that are hard to pronounce but its not because of their sounds but rather their structure. I'm sure natives also make mistakes in them.

In Polish we have sounds covering most "normal" languages and then we add some more, enhanced by ridiculous number of combinations it makes us quite proficient in saying just about anything and that makes Japanese pronunciation quite easy. I'm not saying I've proper pronunciation now but I already have the tools to make it perfect in the future.