飢餓 (きが)

上着　(うわぎ)

醤油（しょうゆ）

皮むき器

Theme: 「日用品」／「必需品」, things used day to day
(If we're going to keep the theme going we probably need to mention it in each post.)

Theme: 「日用品」／「必需品」, things used day to day

衣服 (いふく)

chair wrote:

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漫画

Surreal wrote:

フクロウ　[梟]　

No no, ええ is different from えい, you're not wrong about that and you definitely shouldn't change your pronounciation to make them sound the same all the time. Like I said, I really can't explain very well how it works (someone else up for it?), it just makes sense to write it as かれい... I guess ええ gives me more of a sense of two different sounds instead of just one long sound. Though sometimes えい can be pronounced like in the exclamation "えい！！！”, which is different from just a long え sound, sometimes it is very much like just a drawn out え, for example (scroll down to the Japanese pronounciation) http://www.forvo.com/word/%E6%88%90%E5%8A%9F/ has a sound in 成 that is basically the same as カレー's last sound, kind of. Like I said, I'm bad at explaining this, I've just been going on intuition most of the time. If you want to get a good pronunciation, the safest bet is probably doing what Magamo always recommends. That is, using Audacity or a similar program to record native speech, record yourself copying the thing while listening to the speech, comparing the two, rinse and repeat.

Thanks, I think I get it now. I guess I'll have to pay more attention to katakana words.

Theme: 「日用品」／「必需品」, things used day to day

カチューシャ

In this case, is the last character シ or ヤ or シャ?

Theme: 「日用品」／「必需品」, things used day to day

靴

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貨幣　（かへい）

Last edited by dtcamero (2011 November 21, 7:22 pm)

Theme: 「日用品」／「必需品」, things used day to day

喉 (のど)

Theme: ニュース関係の語彙

遺伝子組み換え作物

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犯人