Thanks, 有難う was indeed pronounced "arigatou".

I also discovered that there's an option to manually edit pronunciation of words.  But it's weird...I told her to pronounce 有り難う as ありがとう, and the problem still occurred.

I then told her how I wanted the whole sentence 教えてくれて有り難う pronounced -- as おしえて呉れてありがとう -- and it seems to have worked.

Thanks for the help.

Last edited by abdwef (2008 November 14, 3:03 pm)

Khatz overuses kanji generally, I assume because he likes them or something.  Writing ありがとう and くれる with kanji is uncommon.

I think he does it because he said he tried to over kanjify his srs sentences in the beginning to get more kanji practice, so now this habit seems to be stuck.

There are many words that can be written as kanji couples or with kana in between

取り引き・取引

Yey....

First time in my life I've seen someone write arigatou in kanji, outside of my dictionary. It one of the things that annoys me about Khatz' writing, overuse of kanji. The way kanji are used, or rather, not used, seems to be some kind of set rules of 'proper kanji use' that all the Japanese people learn, but I've never seen a textbook explain. I just collect my sentences, and don't artificially insert kanji where they weren't in the original sentence. After all that will teach the most natural written Japanese.