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.

>>80

it's a fate of the world leader power

kindergardeners from backwater villages in Costa Rica know more about geography, history, and their own language than public school educated Americans do of their own language, history, and geography.

>>82
here's what i call bullshit

Listening to an American speaking Spanish is extremely fucking painful :S Seriously, yes you are blessed with having the world's most "popular" language as your mothertongue. But that isn't an excuse to be absolutely inbred when it comes to learning other languages. I mean wtf your whole nation is founded upon immigration. Why do you guys suck so fucking hard?

>>77
Yeah, I'm American and I guarantee my Japanese is 100x better than yours, even if you are fluent (Which I still call bullshit)

Yeah, I'm American and I believe that my foreign language skills are good. The truth is that I sound like a fucking retard, either painfully American or painfully geeky "hi I'm trying so hard to pronounce this right that I'm about to shit my pants".

>>84
Well, it's not like US immigrants are much good at learning English.

English by its very nature doesn't have true vowels and is generally spoken with as little effort from the voice as possible. That is why English speakers especially AmeriKKKans fail at learning foreign langauges.

>>88
Doesn't have true vowels.
What does that mean?

is generally spoken with as little effort from the voice as possible
No way. English is emphatic.

>>88
English vowels are unique. Have you ever met a single language that has such a uncertain vowel system? You can freely vary them and it all would be alright. Say, pronouncing "joke" as jowk, jahk, johk etc alters it so little that some speakers may simply not notice it. Don't mess with English vowels!

>>90
Mess with MSN/Windows Live Messenger!

>>90
No, those last two are pretty weird.

So wait... You're saying you're as much of an ignorant bastard as you're stereotyping? Everyone sounds weird learning a language if they aren't directly immersed in the language. Deal with it.

>>93
Whether or not the OP himself is good at pronouncing foreign languages is a moot point. He was only bitching about the hyprocrisy of English speakers who often mock Japanese people who are trying to pronounce English.

>>94
Which is, in turn, hypocritical? 'Sup, OP.

>>95
Who are you to say it's hypocritical when you don't even know me? I actually pronounce foreign languages pretty well.

>>96
You must be American.

LOL @yanks trying to act like language experts on the internet.

>>97-98
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Friggin' worthless trolls, I swear.

Tourism is the act in which a rich, overweight, white, American monolingual with a cellphone in one hand and a hamburger in the other, who has no regard for other cultures visits another country and desecrates their traditions and holy places just so they can have pictures of their fat self standing next to some famous world monument.

These fat Americans usually carry around a "Words and Phrases" pocket book of whatever language is spoken in the country they are visiting and severely mispronounce half the words and have absolutely no manners. They will sometimes even claim to know a country's language and history better then an actual native. This is bad for a country's nationalism. The only reason some countries allow this is because they are poor and need whatever money they can get.

The difference is that white people are good-looking and Japs are squinky-eyed gooks who generally worship our features and think getting a white girlfriend (skank) is god-tier. This is why gooks are amusing when they mispronounce shit.

Sandniggers are by far the worst at pronouncing English.

ITT: third worlders acting out their jealousy

IMO Japanese pronunciation is easy for English speakers (the mildly intelligent ones, at least). Especially if you learn the language the proper way (homestay, study abroad.. etc.)

But Chinese, German, French... that shit is hard bro.

>>100

>This is bad for a country's nationalism

so sad. poor a country's nationalism

May I ask that what the fuck is wrong with americans and british (less though) when it comes to pronouncing "r"? For example, "groß", why do you force your tongue to the back of your throat? It sounds so unnatural.

>>106

Isn't that how you're supposed to do it? It's rolled in the back of the throat. It's a difficult sound though, i've been studying german for 10 years and i still have trouble with it

>>106
I'm curious, are you referring to their native way of pronouncing that letter, or some common incorrect attempt to mimic German pronunciation? If the latter, tutor us.

>>108

Native way. It seems that no matter which foreign language they learn, they still have that "english accent" to it.

>>109
How strange that people have their native accent.

BTW, I doubt they're forcing their tongues to the back of their throats, since that's definitely not how “r”s are pronounced in English.

>>80
THIS.