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About English speakers' pronunciation

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-07 0:15

A Japanese guy: "Ai emu Japaniizu man. Ai emu rukkingu foowaado tsu nowingu yuu. Letto'su speakingu!"

An ignorant prick (most likely American): "Haha! Look at that stupid Japanese speaker trying to pronounce English! Ain't it funny! LOL! brb gonna go masturbate to sum tentacle hentais and them read my mangas"

Hey English speakers! You are just like the Japanese: you can't pronounce foreign languages for shit.

Be it German, French, Finnish, Japanese, Chinese, Telugu or motherfuckin' Esperanto, English speakers simply sound awkward when they try to pronounce them (and believe me they try...). I haven't met (or more like heard) a single English speaker, trying to pronounce Japanese, who didn't try to sound like whatever stupid anime character they decided to ape (even saying that they sound like anime characters is an exaggeration; more like anime characters with downs).

Americans are the worst offenders, although the British and other anglophones are not doing a good job either.

Seriously guys, the world is becoming less and less anglophonic. Already westerners are scrambling to learn the languages of tomorrow: Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian. But no one will take you seriously with your muddled pronunciation, just like you can't take the Japanese seriously and mock them while you dream of fucking their women.

You can't pronounce ü, you can't roll your r's, your l's are weird, your k's and t's are always aspirated, your vowels are nothing but diphtongs which make you sound no better than the Japanese who can't pronounce consonants without attaching vowels to them: you always try to cram the diphtongs everywhere. You're incapable of pronouncing pure vowels, and believe me, it shows. Even the purest e's, a's, o's and u's you can produce have a certain unnatural tang to them.

Look in the mirror the next time you make fun of the Japanese and their pronunciation. Or better yet; record your voice, play it back, and weep.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-10 8:41

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No. American's speaking Japanese is not even 100th as bad as Japanese attempting to speak English even though they've all studied it for 10 years.

The fact is, Japanese can't pronounce jack shit because their language is fundamentally flawed in that they have very few sounds to express themselves.

I'm going to a Japanese school in Japan, and am surrounded by other people speaking Japanese.

1.Koreans are with out doubt the best in Japanese. This has to do with the fact that the language is so similar. These guys can be easily mistaken as Japanese.
2.Taiwanese are a little mixed. There's insanely good ones like the koreans, but then there's ones where it's just terrible.
3.American/Russian - I feel both sound the same when attempting to speak Japanese. They're right in the middle in pronunciation, but it's hard for white people to sound Asian.
4.German are a worse off than Americans, but not that bad.
5.Italians are just fucking horrible, 95% of them sound stupid
6.India/random ass country - These guys are so terrible that it's really sad. Just imagine the guy at the kwik-e-mart with that same accent trying to sound Japanese. It just doesn't work, and people often don't know what the fuck they're saying.

My ratings aren't just based off one or two people I knew, it's probably more around 20+ of each race. Americans are definitely not bad, in fact, Japanese understand American's pronunciation (assuming they know Japanese) better than they understand Japanese pronouncing Japanese because American's speak a lot clearer, where Japanese tend to often not use their mouth/tongue as much

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