About English speakers' pronunciation

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.

>>34

It's spelled "encyclopedia" in English, (officially in the North American variant, and most commonly in modern British English) and the correct pronunciation is /ənˌsəɪkləˈpidiə/. If you pronounce it differently, you are doing it wrong.

I'm not sure if you know this but there are multiple ways to pronounce English, all of which are equally valid.

you're doing basically the same thing as those Americunts who pronounce English loanwords in Japanese just like they would in English.

Funny thing is, I once read the travelogues of a Japanese person who was using romaji to write Japanese because he couldn't type in Japanese characters on the Indian computer he was using. Anyhow, he spelled in English all the loanwords that would normally be in katakana. Thus, intaanetto became internet, basu became bus, haado became hard, and Derii became Delhi. It was an interesting insight into what the Japanese think about English loanwords in their language.